Renate Mayntz
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:
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- The New School for Social Research , New York (USA)
- The University of Edinburgh
- FLACSO in Santiago de Chile
- Stanford University (USA)
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
- 1977 honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
- 1979 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paris X (Nanterre)
- 1988 Full member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 Schader Prize
- 2002 Honorary doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence , election to external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and honorary member of the European Group for Organizational Studies
- 2004 Bielefeld Science Prize together with Fritz W. Scharpf
- 2006 Prize of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) for an outstanding scientific life's work
- 2008 Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize of the Society for the Promotion of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
- 2010 Innovation Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for her life's work
- 2011 Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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
- Literature by and about Renate Mayntz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Renate Mayntz in the German Digital Library
- MPG press release on the innovation award for Mayntz (with picture) (accessed June 2014)
- Renate Mayntz in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet
- Page about Renate Mayntz at Wikibooks (sociological classics)
Individual evidence
- ↑ König, René (2000): Briefwechsel, Volume 1, ed. by Mario and Oliver König (René König, Schriften, Volume 19). Opladen: Leske and Budrich, p. 318.
- ^ Membership directory: Renate Mayntz. Academia Europaea, accessed July 5, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mayntz, Renate |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |