Rainer Paris

Rainer Paris (* 1948 in Oldenburg ) is a German sociologist .

After studying sociology, psychology and German studies at the Free University of Berlin, Paris published mainly on questions of power and organizational sociology, including problems of gender power, often with an accent critical of feminism.

Rainer Paris taught from 1994 to 2013 as a professor of sociology at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. He has published numerous articles in specialist and cultural journals, including in the sociology column of the monthly Merkur .

Book publications (selection)

• Class Consciousness and Intersubjectivity. For the action-theoretical reformulation of the class consciousness concept . 1984, ISBN 3-593-33348-1 .
• with Wolfgang Sofsky : Figurations of Social Power. Authority - Representation - Coalition . 1994, ISBN 3-518-28735-4 .
• Sting and spear . 1998, ISBN 3-518-12038-7 .
• Normal Power - Sociological Essays . 2005, ISBN 3-89669-517-7 .
• Gender, love & power - four objections . 2008, ISBN 978-3-937801-26-1 .
• Envy. The power of a hidden feeling . 2010, ISBN 978-3-937801-54-4 .
• The will of one is the doing of the other. Essays on power theory . 2015, ISBN 978-3-942393-79-9 .

Web links

• Rainer Paris: Doing Gender. ( Memento from September 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: Merkur. 649, 2003 - copyleft version
• Rainer Paris: Stupidity. In: Mercury. 704, 2008 - copyleft version
• Literature by and about Rainer Paris in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rainer Paris: Equality - a systematic argument. In: Mercury. 723, 2009.