Peter Heintz

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Peter Heintz in the seminar (approx. 1966)

Peter Heintz (born November 6, 1920 in Davos ; † March 15, 1983 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sociologist .

Life

Peter Heintz received his doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich in 1944, from where he followed René König as his assistant to Cologne in 1953 . There he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the authority problem with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon . Together with Erwin K. Scheuch and Dietrich Rüschemeyer, Heintz is one of König's most important students. From 1956 he worked as a UNESCO expert on the development of higher education in Latin America, where he headed the Escuela Latinoamericana de Sociología at the FLACSO ( Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales ) in Santiago de Chile from 1960 to 1965 . He then founded the sociological department of the Fundación Bariloche in Argentina. As part of his work for UNESCO, he worked with internationally known sociologists such as Alain Touraine , Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt and Johan Galtung . In 1966 he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Sociology in Zurich , founded the Sociological Institute of the University of Zurich and headed it until his death in 1983. From 1969 to 1972 he chaired the Swiss Society for Sociology and played a key role in the institutionalization of a research-oriented and research-oriented institute theory-based sociology in Switzerland. Peter Heintz was married to the novelist and translator Suzanne Heintz-Friedrich, who worked with him regularly.

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Early main topics of his work were contributions to the theory of anarchism , authority and protest as well as the sociological analysis of fascism in Europe. His main work was the development of a socio-structural and power theory-oriented alternative to modernization theory within the framework of a general theory of societal systems that conceptualizes "modernization" or "development" as the aspired upward mobility of countries in the international development layer system. From a model analysis he concluded as early as 1974 that the structural heterogeneity of the united Europe would become too great after the planned enlargements for it to develop further without breaking up great socio-political tensions. Heintz was also a pioneer in the inclusion of other aspects of global change in sociological analysis, whose spectrum of interests ranged from world system theory to the emerging competition between the international state system and the global network of multinational groups and cultural codes in understanding this change.

His estate is in the Swiss Social Archives . As a testator, he founded the World Society Foundation .

Publications

The most important publications include:

  • Anarchism and the present (1951)
  • The problem of authority in Proudhon (1956)
  • Social Prejudice: A Problem of Personality, Culture, and Society (1957)
  • Curso de sociología (1956, 1960, 1965).
  • Sociology of Developing Countries (1962).
  • Introduction to Sociological Theory (2nd revised and expanded edition, 1968)
  • A sociological paradigm of development with a special focus on Latin America . (1969). (Spanish edition: Un paradigma sociológico del desarrollo con especial referencia a América Latina . 1970)
  • A Macrosociological Theory of Societal Systems , 2 vols. (1972)
  • The Future of Development (1973) / The Future of Development (1974)
  • World Society in the Mirror of Events (1982)
  • Unequal Distribution, Power, and Legitimacy (1982)

literature

  • Guido Hischier, René Levy, Werner Obrecht (eds.): World society and social structure. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Peter Heintz. Verlag Rüegger, Diessenhofen 1980, ISBN 3-7253-0123-9

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Markus Zürcher, Interrupted Tradition. The beginnings of sociology in Switzerland. Chronos, Zurich 1995, 372 p., ISBN 3-905311-80-1 .
  2. ↑ Stephan Moebius, René König and the “Cologne School”. Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, 128 p., ISBN 978-3-658-08181-2
  3. ↑ FLACSO, Peter Heintz. http://www.flacsochile.org/personajes/peter-heintz/ (consulté 26.6.2018).
  4. ↑ Edmundo Fuenzalida Faivovich, La primera FLACSO (1957-1966). Cooperación internacional para la actualización de la sociología en America Latina. FLACSO, Chile 2007, 9 p.
  5. ^ Edmundo F. Fuenzalida, The Reception of 'Scientific Sociology' in Chile. Latin American Research Review 1983, 18 (2): 95-112. ISSN 0023-8791.
  6. ↑ Hans Geser, In Memoriam Prof. Dr. Peter Heintz: November 6, 1920 - March 15, 1983. Swiss Journal of Sociology 1983 Vol. 9 / No. 1 / S. 1-6 ( http://www.worldsociety.ch/doku.php?id=about_wsf:founder:in_memoriam ) (consulté 26.6.2018) ISSN 0379- 3664.
  7. ↑ Simon Schwartzman, Peter Heintz (1920-1983). 1983. https://ia800304.us.archive.org/20/items/PeterHeintz1920-1983/1983heintz.pdf (consulté 26.6.2018).
  8. ^ Claudia Honegger, Hans-Ulrich Jost, Susanne Burren & Pascal Jurt, Competitive interpretations of the social. History, social and economic sciences in the field of tension between politics and science. Chronos, Zurich 2007, 413 p. ISBN 978-3-0340-0766-5 .
  9. ^ Theresa Wobbe, World Society. transcript, Bielefeld 2000, 97 p. ISBN 3-933127-13-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Heintz, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heintz, Peter René (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Davos
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1983
Place of death Zurich