Renate Rausch

Renate Rausch (born March 5, 1930 in Berlin ; † December 7, 2007 there ) was a German sociologist .

Life

Renate Rausch first studied English and French at the Interpreting Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , from 1950 philosophy, art history, modern history and sociology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hamburg , where she wrote in 1959 with the essay The Leisure in American Sociology by Thorstein Veblen until David Riesman received his doctorate in sociology under Helmut Schelsky .

From 1960 to 1964 she was a research assistant at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund . From 1964 to the end of 1974 she did research in Central America , initially on an adult education project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , and from 1966 as a professor of sociology at the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José .

In the 1975 summer semester, Renate Rausch accepted an offer from the Philipps University of Marburg to the chair for methods of empirical social research , which she held until her retirement in the 1995/96 winter semester. Her particular research interest was the analysis of social structures in the Federal Republic of Germany and women's studies . In 2001 Renate Rausch was instrumental in founding the Marburg Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Future Studies, and in May 2007 she was made an honorary member.

On the other hand, she remained loyal to social science research in Latin America. Since 1985 she has held several visiting professorships in Venezuela and Mexico , and research stays in Central and South American countries have been repeated .

Renate Rausch provided the German translation (including the problematic title) of David Riesman's study The Lonely Crowd (1950; German: Die einsame Masse , 1956).

Awards

• 2000 Women's advancement award from the University of Marburg