Reinhard Kreckel

Reinhard Kreckel (born November 20, 1940 in Nuremberg ) is a German sociologist .

Life and work

Reinhard Kreckel studied sociology, history and philosophy in West Berlin, Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Munich (doctorate there in 1969). From 1969–73 he was a research assistant at the University of Munich , then (until 1977) lecturer and senior lecturer for sociology at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). From 1977 to 1992 he taught sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

He was visiting professor at the New School for Social Research , New York, Dalhousie University , Halifax, the Institut d'études politiques , Paris, and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. From 1992 to 2006 he taught as a sociologist at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . 1996–2000 he was its rector. From 2001 to 2010 he was director of the Institute for University Research (HoF) at Leucorea in Wittenberg. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the HoF since 2011.

Reinhard Kreckel's scientific interests lie in the fields of theoretical macro-sociology, the sociology of social inequalities , gender and university research.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• with Karin Zimmermann: Hazard or career. Academic career structures in international comparison . Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-931982-84-3 .
• Political Sociology of Social Inequality (Theory and Society, Vol. 25). 3rd expanded edition. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37598-2 .
• Diversity as a strength. Impetus for university policy and university research (Wittenberg university research). Lemmens, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-932306-58-9 .
• with Friedrich von Krosigk, Georg Ritzer, Roland Schütz and Gerhard Sonnert: Regionalist movements in Western Europe. On structural and value changes in advanced industrial societies (Research Center for Economics and Social Sciences, Vol. 19). Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-8100-0582-7 .
• Sociological thinking. A critical introduction ( UTB , vol. 574). 3. Edition. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-8100-0166-X .
• Sociological Knowledge and History. On the possibilities and limits of an empirical-analytical orientation in the human sciences (Contributions to Sociological Research, Vol. 6). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1972, ISBN 3-531-11067-5 . (also dissertation, University of Munich 1969)
• with Ditmar Brock and Hartwig Thode: Vertical mobility and immobility in the Federal Republic of Germany. Report of an investigation on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (communications from the Institute for Spatial Planning, vol. 75). Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1972.

as editor

• Between doctorate and professorship. The scientific staff in Germany compared with France, Great Britain, USA, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland . Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-931982-61-4 .
• with Jan-Hendrik Olbertz and Peer Pasternack : Quality. Key question of university reform (Wittenberg university research). Beltz, Weinheim 2001, ISBN 3-89271-943-8 .
• Social inequalities (social world / special volume, 2). 2nd Edition. Schwartz, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-509-01341-7 .

literature

• Eva Barlösius : Struggles for social inequality. Power theory perspectives (Hagen study texts on sociology). VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14311-5 .
• Uwe Schimank : Sociological Theory. Thinking models for empirical puzzles . In: Richard Münch u. a. (Ed.): Sociology 2000. Critical inventory of a sociology for the 21st century ( Sociological Review / special issue, 5). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-64485-8 , pp. 192-202.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Kreckel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Person page on uni-halle.de
• Farewell lecture Kreckel "Sociology of Social Inequality in a Global Context", April 27, 2006 (PDF file; 539 kB)