Raj Kollmorgen
Raj Kollmorgen (born October 1, 1963 in Leipzig ) is a German sociologist and university professor .
Life
Kollmorgen studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he obtained a diploma in philosophy in 1990 . He then worked as a research assistant at various university and non-university institutions, including the universities in Erfurt , Halle and Jena . In 1999 Kollmorgen received his doctorate in sociology with a thesis on transformation theories: career and metatheoretical criticism at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. From 2002 to 2010 he held a junior professorship for sociology and European studies at the Institute for Sociology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . This was followed by a habilitation at Magdeburg University in 2010 . Afterwards Kollmorgen was a private lecturer with the Venia Legendi for “Sociology, especially transformation research and European studies” at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
From 2011 he worked at the Institute for Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he became a substitute professor for work, industrial and economic sociology in 2012 , before accepting the professorship for management of social change at the University of Zittau / Görlitz in 2013 .
Since 2016 Kollmorgen has been director of the Research Institute for "Transformation, Housing and Social Spatial Development" (TRAWOS) at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.
Research priorities
Kollmorgen deals with social change , in particular post-socialist transformations in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe, including Eastern Germany, socio-ecological upheavals, regional development and structural change in peripheral regions as well as social innovations. He also works on the topics of elites, political populisms and radicalisms, social inequality and participation, post- and neo-modernism as well as social and societal theories.
Publications (selection)
- with Rolf Reissig and Johannes Weiß (eds.): Social change and actors in East Germany: empirical findings and theoretical approaches , Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1435-4 .
- Transformation theories: career and metatheoretical criticism , Jena 1999.
- with Heiko Schrader (ed.): Post-socialist transformations: society, economy, culture: theoretical perspectives and empirical findings , Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-89913-284-X .
- with Martin Brussig and Frank Ettrich (eds.): Conflict and Consensus. Transformation Processes in East Germany . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2003.
- East Germany: Observations of a Transitional and Partial Society , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14749-8 .
- (Ed.): Transformation as a type of social change: post-socialist lessons, historical and intercultural comparisons , Lit-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7868-6 .
- with Johannes Angermüller, Dirk Wiemann and Jörg Meyer (eds.): Reflexive Representations. Politics, Hegemony, and Discourse in Global Capitalism , Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004.
- with Agata Stopinska and Anke Bartels (eds.): Revolutions. Reframed - Revisited - Revised , Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main et al. 2007.
- with Thomas Großbölting, Sascha Möbius and Rüdiger Schmidt (eds.): The end of communism. Overcoming dictatorships in Europe and their consequences , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010,
- with Moritz Brunn, Frank Ettrich, Jan H. Fahlbusch, Thees Spreckelsen, Alexander Thumfart (eds.): Transformation and Europeanization. Characteristics and (inter) dependencies of post-socialist change and European integration , Münster 2010.
- with Hans-Liudger Dienel and Frank Thomas Koch (eds.): Discourses of German Unity: Criticism and Alternatives , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17471-6 .
- with Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (eds.): Handbuch Transformationsforschung , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-05347-5 .
- with Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (eds.): The Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation , Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2019, ISBN 978-0-198-82991-1 .
Web links
- Homepage of Raj Kollmorgen
- Literature by and about Raj Kollmorgen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollmorgen, Raj |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |