Paul Trappe

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Paul Trappe (1968)

Paul Trappe (born December 12, 1931 in Trier , † March 22, 2005 in Bern ) was a German sociologist.

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Trappe in 1959 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for Dr. phil. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1964 at the University of Bern . From 1966 to 1969 he was professor and director of the sociological seminar at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1969 to 2002 he was professor and head of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Basel .

Trappe devoted himself to two main areas of work: the sociology of law and the sociology of developing countries . In both areas, Trappe directed his particular interest to questions of participation .

His agricultural sociological studies took him to southern Europe and Africa. He worked as an expert for the United Nations in Uganda , for the German government in Ivory Coast and for the Ciba-Geigy group in Madagascar .

Paul Trappe represented an understanding sociology in the tradition of Karl Jaspers , Edgar Salin and Heinrich Popitz .

Fonts (selection)

  • Theodor Geiger's legal sociology , Mainz, 1959 (dissertation).
  • The development function of the cooperative system using the example of East African tribes , Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1966.
  • Why Cooperatives in Developing Countries? , Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1966.
  • On the situation of legal sociology , Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1968.
  • Development from below as an alternative. A case study in Karamoja / Uganda , Basel 1978.
  • Critical Realism in Legal Sociology , Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983.
  • Codetermination in economy and society , Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983.
  • The repressed social question , Cologne: Bachem, 1983.
  • Sociology of Development , Basel: Social Strategies Publishers Co-operative Soc., 1984.
  • Broad social impact of a development intervention , Basel: Karger Libri, 1987.
  • Political and social intermediary forces in the social constitutional state , Basel: Karger Libri, 1990.
  • Development, law, social change , Bern: Lang, 2002.

literature

  • F. Benseler : Trappe, Paul , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, pp. 876 f.
  • Victoria Jäggi (Ed.): Development, Law, Social Change. Festschrift for Paul Trappe on his 70th birthday , Bern a. a .: Lang 2002.

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