Ronald Hitzler

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Ronald Hitzler (born March 4, 1950 in Königsbronn in Baden-Württemberg ) is a German sociologist .

Life

In 1970 Ronald Hitzler passed the subject-related higher education entrance qualification at the Heidenheim Business School . Between 1970 and 1974 he completed a 20-month editorial traineeship at the Schwarzwälder Bote , a regional daily newspaper. From October 1972 to January 1974 he did community service in a nursing home in Heidenheim.

Hitzler studied sociology , political science and philosophy at the University of Konstanz from 1974 to 1978 and graduated with a Magister Artium in sociology and political science. Thomas Luckmann and Volker Roth were reviewers for the master’s thesis .

In June 1987, a doctorate Hitzler at Peter Gross and Ulrich Beck for Dr. rer. pole. at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Bamberg .

In April 1995, he completed his habilitation in sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin . Friedhelm Neidhardt , Ulrich Beck, Hans-Georg Soeffner and Dietmar Kamper were the reviewers of the habilitation thesis.

Teaching

From 1979 to 1982 Hitzler worked as a research assistant at the chair 'Culture, Communication and Methodology' at Luckmann at the University of Konstanz. This was followed by activities as a research assistant at the University of Bamberg (1982 to 1984) and at the Research Institute for Sociology at the University of Cologne (1985 to 1989). In addition, he worked as a freelance journalist from 1983 to 1984 . From 1989 to 1995 Hitzler was Ulrich Beck's research assistant, initially for three years at the University of Bamberg, then from 1992 at the University of Munich .

After various professorships at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich between 1995 and 1997, Hitzler held the Chair for General Sociology from April 1997 to 2017 and since his retirement he has headed the research area Modernization as an Action Problem at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Scientific activities

Research projects

Ronald Hitzler headed a number of third-party funded projects, including:

  • 'Shooting in the club. An exploratory study of legal possession and handling of firearms' (DFG, 2000/02)
  • '' Double career couples. Normalization achievements and gender constructions under the conditions of a mutual delimitation of work and family '(DFG, 2002/03)
  • 'The web of active citizens. An exploratory study on the functioning of civil society '(DFG, 2003/05)
  • 'Critic of globalization: a' moving 'scene?' (DFG, 2003/06)
  • 'Informal innovation patterns' (BMBF, 2004/07)
  • 'Situational communalization by means of religious hybrid events: The XX. World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne - Organizers Perspective '(DFG, 2005/06)
  • 'The order of the assistant interaction. Videographic analysis of care situations' (DFG, 2006/08)
  • Management of multiple divergences - Accompanying study for the organization and coordination of the mega-event project "European Capital of Culture 2010" (2009/11)
  • 'Consensus fiction "self-determination" - using the example of interactions between people with dementia and professional caregivers' (DFG, 2010/12)
  • 'The mediatization of the gaming worlds I-III' (DFG, 2010/16)
  • 'Interpretation pattern “vegetative state”. A project-focused trajectory analysis' (DFG, 2012/15)
  • 'Staging belonging to the scene' (BMBF, 2014/17)
  • 'Protest hybrids. On the relevance of fun and hedonistic motifs at protest events and the resulting areas of tension '(DFG, 2014/17)
  • 'Communicative Construction of the Edges of Sociality: The Fragile Dealing with People with Autism Spectrum Disorders' (DFG, 2017/20)

Memberships

Ronald Hitzler is a member of the German Society for Sociology (DGS).

  • From 2005 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the DGS board.
  • From 1995 to 2001 chairman of the 'Political Sociology' section.
  • From 2005 to 2010 chairman of the 'Sociology of Knowledge' section.
  • From 2008 to 2015 member of the 'Social Sciences' review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Other scientific activities

Hitzler is a scientific advisor to various social science journals and editor of several book series for the publishers Springer VS and Beltz Juventa. He is co-organizer of the Fulda field work days, reviewer at various institutions and member of various commissions and juries.

Publications

Books (selection)

  • with Paul Eisewicht: Lebensweltanalytische Ethnographie - following Anne Honer. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2016.
  • with Lakshmi Kotsch: Self-determination despite dementia? A commandment and its practical relevance in everyday care. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2013.
  • with Corinna Iris Leuschner and Frank Mücher: companionship in the Königsborn house. Concepts and practices in a long-term care facility for people with severe brain damage. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2013.
  • with Gregor Betz, Gerd Möll and Arne Niederbacher : mega event makers. On the management of multiple divergences using the example of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013.
  • Eventization. Three case studies on marketing strategy mass fun. Wiesbaden: VS 2011.
  • with Arne Niederbacher: Life in Scenes. Forms of juvenile communalization today. Wiesbaden: VS 2010 (3rd, completely revised edition).

Anthologies (selection)

  • with Nicole Burzan: Typological constructions. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018.
  • with Nicole Burzan: Theoretical Insights. In the context of empirical work. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017.
  •  with Nicole Burzan: Got the dog. Interdisciplinary approach to a relationship. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016.
  • with Nicole Burzan and Heiko Kirschner: Material analyzes. Methodological questions in projects (series 'Erlebniswelten'). Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016.
  • with Dirk vom Lehn): Special Issue: Phenomenology-based Ethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. October 2015; 44 (5).
  • with Miriam Gothe: Ethnographic explorations. Methodological aspects of current research projects. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015.
  • Hermeneutics as a way of life. A suggestion by Hans-Georg Soeffner. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2015.
  • with Anne Honer and Michaela Pfadenhauer: Post-traditional communities. Theoretical and ethnographic determinations. Wiesbaden: VS 2008.
  • with Winfried Gebhardt and Michaela Pfadenhauer: Events. Sociology of the Extraordinary. Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2000.
  • with Jo Reichertz and Norbert Schröer: Hermeneutische Wissenssoziologie. Viewpoints on the theory of interpretation. Constance: UVK 1999.
  • with Anne Honer: Sociological Hermeneutics. An introduction. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, UTB 1997.
  • with Anne Honer and Christoph Maeder: Expert knowledge. The institutionalized competence for the construction of reality. Opladen: Westdeutscher 1994.

Articles in magazines (selection)

  • Central features and peripheral irritations of interpretive social research. In: Journal for Qualitative Research (ZQF), 17th vol., H. 1 + 2/2016, pp. 171–184.
  • with Anne Honer: Life-World-Analytical Ethnography: A Phenomenology-Based Research Approach. In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2015, Vol 44 (5), pp. 544-562 doi : 10.1177 / 0891241615588589 ).
  • In the consensus machine. Milieu affiliation between discovering similarities and experiencing community. In: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie (ZTS), 1st special volume 2014 (Isenböck, Peter / Nell, Linda / Renn, Joachim (eds.): Die Form des Milieus), pp. 100–114.
  • The ritual construction of the person. Aspects of the experience of a person in the so-called vegetative state [44 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Social Research / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012, 13 (3), Art. 12, urn : nbn: de: 0114-fqs1203126 .
  • Where on the way A commentary on recent developments in German-language "qualitative" social research [31 paragraphs]. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007, 8 (3), Art. 4. Available from: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3- 4-d.htm .
  • The Reconstruction of Meaning. Notes on German Interpretive Sociology. [35 paragraphs]. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal], 2005, 6 (3), Art. 45. Available at: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3- 05 / 05-3-45-e.htm .
  • The rediscovery of the potential for action. Problems of political sociology under the conditions of reflexive modernization. In: Zeitschrift für Politik, Volume 47, H. 2/2000, P. 183-200.

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SURNAME Hitzler, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsbronn