Regina Becker-Schmidt

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Regina Becker-Schmidt (* 1937 ) is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover . Her research focuses on social and subject theory, critical theory , psychoanalytically oriented social psychology and gender research .

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Becker-Schmidt studied from 1957 sociology , philosophy , economics and social psychology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1964 to 1972 she worked as a research assistant and from 1968 as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, where, after completing her doctorate, she taught at the university's social sciences faculty. In 1973 she was appointed to a chair at the University of Hanover at the Institute of Psychology, which she held until her retirement in 2002.

Her doctorate took place first with Adorno and after his death with Ludwig von Friedeburg .

Becker-Schmidt particularly shaped the feminist development of critical theory in the German-speaking area. It is assigned to the so-called Hanoverian approach in feminist-oriented sociology and has decisively shaped it.

Your criticism of the positions of critical theory, in particular Adornos and Horkheimer, mainly affects their ambivalent attitude to the complex of gender relations. For example, they were blind to the women's movement. Through this criticism, she also develops critical theory further.

Muharrem Acikgöz places Regina Becker-Schmidt in the second generation of the Frankfurt School.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Regina Becker-Schmidt 2016: Monotony instead of all sorts. Identity-logical constructions in social rationalization processes and identity constraints in gender orders. In: Müller, Stefan / Mende, Janne , (Ed.): Difference and Identity. Constellations of Criticism . Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa. 181-201
  • Regina Becker-Schmidt 2002, (Ed.): Gender and Work in Transition. Globalization in Western, Middle and Eastern Europe. Opladen
  • Regina Becker-Schmidt 2001: The importance of female work biographies for a self-determined representation of the interests of women. In: Claussen, Detlev / Negt, Oskar / Werz, Michael, (ed.): Philosophy and empiricism. Hannoversche Schriften 4. 69-94
  • Regina Becker-Schmidt 2001: What is separated by power belongs together socially. On the dialectic of redistribution and recognition in phenomena of social inequality. In: Knapp, Gudrun-Axeli / Wetterer, Angelika , (Ed.): Social positioning of the sexes. Social Theory and Feminist Criticism. Muenster. 91-132
  • Regina Becker-Schmidt 2003: Changes in women's work biographies. Regional constellations and global developments. In: Knapp; Gudrun-Axeli / Wetterer, Angelika, (Ed.): Axes of the difference. Muenster. 101-132
  • In conversation: Regina Becker-Schmidt with Helga Bilden and Karin Flaake . Journal of Psychology, 2 (3): 58-65, 1994.
  • with Gudrun-Axeli Knapp : Feminist theories as an introduction . 1st edition 2000; 4th, completely revised 2007 edition; Hamburg: Junius.
  • Gender and work in transition . Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 2002.
  • Criticize Adorno - and learn from him in the process. On the importance of his theory for gender research . Lecture July 6, 2003 in Frankfurt / M. on the occasion of the conference “The vitality of critical social theory. Working conference on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Theodor W. Adorno. ”Moderation: Ulrich Oevermann.
  • Critique of knowledge, criticism of science, criticism of society - positions by Donna Haraway and Theodor W. Adorno are controversially discussed. IWM Working Paper No 1/2003, Vienna.
  • On the double socialization of women , Gender-politik-online July 2003.
  • Pendulum Movements - Approaching a Feminist Society and Subject Theory. Articles from 1991-2015 . Opladen-Berlin-Toronto. Barbara Budrich 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cf. Muharrem Acikgöz: The Permanence of Critical Theory: The Second Generation as a Divided Interpretation Community , Münster 2014, p. 222.
  2. ↑ Cf. Gudrun-Axeli Knapp: Critical Theory. Self-reflective thinking in mediation , in: Becker / Kortendiek 2004
  3. ↑ a b Cf. Muharrem Acikgöz: The permanence of critical theory: the second generation as a divided community of interpretation , p. 223.

literature

  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
  • Regina Becker-Schmidt: Incitement to Feminism . In: Ulrike Vogel (Hrsg.): Paths to sociology and women and gender studies. Autobiographical notes from the first generation of female professors at the university . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 33–49, ISBN 978-3-531-90078-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Becker-Schmidt, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937