Renate Mayntz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Renate Mayntz (born April 28, 1929 in Berlin as Renate Pflaum , partly also Renate Mayntz-Trier ) is a German sociologist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies .

life and work

Her father was the professor of mechanical engineering Walter Pflaum . After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1947, Mayntz studied at Wellesley College (USA) and obtained a B.A. degree there in 1950 . 1953 she was at the University of Berlin in Otto Stammer Dr. phil. PhD . From 1953 to 1957 she then worked at the UNESCO Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne. 1957 habilitation they are at the Free University Berlin. In the following time she made from 1958 to 1959 a scholarship abroad through the Rockefeller Foundation; from 1959 to 1960 she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York, and from 1960 to 1965 then as a private lecturer and professor at the Free University of Berlin.

From 1965 to 1971 Mayntz was full professor of sociology and from 1966 to 1970 a member of the German Education Council . In 1968 she held the Theodor Heuss Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Mayntz was a member of the government and administrative reform project group , which was supposed to develop proposals for a reorganization of the federal government, including a reorganization of the departments of the federal ministries. Between 1970 and 1973 she was a member of the study commission for the reform of public service law; 1971-1973 also full professor of organizational sociology at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and from 1973 to 1985 Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne . From 1974 to 1980 Mayntz was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation . In 1985 she was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and since then has been an honorary professor at the University of Cologne. In 1997 she retired .

In addition, she carried out the following foreign teaching activities:

In 2009, she founded a network of 20 international scientists to research the regulation of financial markets.

Her main research interests are social theory , political control, policy development and implementation, technology development, science development and science and politics as well as transnational structures and attempts at transnational regulation.

She was married to the painter Hann Trier .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • with Fritz Wilhelm Scharpf: Social self-regulation and political control. Vol. 23. Campus Verlag, 1995.
  • Policy networks and the logic of negotiation systems. in: Policy Analysis. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1993. 39–56.
  • Sociology of the organization. Vol. 166. Rowohlt, 1963.

literature

  • Renate Mayntz: My way to sociology: Reconstruction of a contingent career path , in: Fleck, Christian (Hrsg.), Ways to sociology after 1945. Biographical notes. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1996, 225-235.
  • Renate Mayntz: A social science career in the subject split , in: Karl Martin Bolte / Friedhelm Neidhardt (eds.), Sociology as a profession. Memories of West German university professors of the post-war generation. Social World , special volume 11, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 285–293 (1998).
  • Order and fragility of the social. Interview with Renate Mayntz , Frankfurt am Main: Camus Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-593-51082-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König, René (2000): Briefwechsel, Volume 1, ed. by Mario and Oliver König (René König, Schriften, Volume 19). Opladen: Leske and Budrich, p. 318.
  2. ^ Membership directory: Renate Mayntz. Academia Europaea, accessed July 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayntz, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin