Reinhard Bendix

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Reinhard Bendix (born February 25, 1916 in Berlin , † February 28, 1991 in Berkeley ) was an American sociologist of German origin.

Life

Reinhard Bendix was a son of the Berlin lawyer Ludwig Bendix . He attended the Grunewald High School in Berlin-Grunewald . In the 1930s he had contact with the socialist groups Neu Beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair . In 1933 he was banned from attending school without graduating because he had refused to give the Hitler salute because of his father's first imprisonment . After the father's second imprisonment (temporarily in Dachau concentration camp), the parents emigrated to Palestine in 1937 . With the support of Eduard Heimann , the 22-year-old Bendix received a visa for the USA , where he emigrated in 1938.

He was able to study at the University of Chicago because his high school years in Berlin were equated with a high school degree . His academic teacher in Chicago was Louis Wirth . In 1943 he passed the master’s examination, in the same year he acquired American citizenship. 1946 was followed by promotion to Ph.D. , in 1947 Bendix became Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1969, Bendix was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 61st President of the American Sociological Association ; later he received honorary doctorates from various German universities. In 1977 he became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1987/88 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Importance as a sociologist

Bendix was one of Max Weber's most important interpreters . Central areas of work were comparative social analysis and historical sociology , particularly with a focus on the relationship between power and inequality .

Fonts (selection)

  • Higher civil servants in American society. A study of the social origins, the careers, and the power position of higher federal administrators . University of Colorado Press, Boulder 1949 (Reprinted: Greenwood Press, Westport 1974, ISBN 0-837-17265-9 ).
  • Work and authority in industry. Managerial ideologies in the course of industrialization . J. Wiley, New York 1956 (2nd edition with a new introduction by Mauro F. Guillén), Transaction, New Brunswick 2001, ISBN 0-765-80668-1 .
    • Domination and industrial work . Transcription checked by the author from the American, European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Max Weber. An intellectual portrait . Doubleday, Garden City 1960 (4th edition with an introduction by Bryan S. Turner), Routledge, London / New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-17453-8 .
    • Max Weber - the work. Presentation, analysis, results . From the American by Renate Rausch, with a foreword by René König , Piper, Munich 1964.
  • Nation-building and citizenship. Studies of our changing social order . University of California Press, Berkeley 1964 (New edition: University of California Press, Berkeley 1977, ISBN 0-520-02676-4 ).
  • Kings or people. Power and the mandate to rule . University of California Press, Berkeley 1978, ISBN 0520023021 .
    • Kings or people. Exercise of power and mandate . Two volumes, translated by Holger Fliessbach, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 978-3-518-07543-2 .
  • Freedom and historical destiny. Heidelberg Max Weber Lectures 1981 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 978-3-518-27990-8 .
  • Force, fate, and freedom: On historical sociology . University of California Press, Berkeley 1984, ISBN 0-520-04931-4 .
  • From Berlin to Berkeley. German-Jewish identities . Transaction Books, New Brunswick 1986, ISBN 0-887-38067-0 .
    • From Berlin to Berkeley. German-Jewish identities . Authorized translation by Holger Fliessbach, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 978-3-518-04710-1 .

literature

  • Louis H. Orzack: Bendix, Reinhard , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Vol. 2, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Enke, 1984, p. 60 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source of the biographical information: Reinhard Bendix, How I became an American sociologist , in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918–1945 . Special issue 23 of the "Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology", Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1981, pp. 347–368.
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 15, 2016
  3. ↑ Member History: Reinhard Bendix. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Source of the information on the scientific focal points: Louis H. Orzack, Bendix, Reinhard , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe (ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Vol. 2, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Enke, 1984, p. 60 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bendix, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1991
Place of death Berkeley