Sabine Pfeiffer

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Sabine Pfeiffer (* 1966 in Unna , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German sociologist specializing in work sociology . Since 2018 she has been teaching as a professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

biography

Sabine Pfeiffer attended the modern language high schools on Frauenchiemsee and in Fürth . After completing secondary school, she completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in Fürth from 1983 to 1986 . Through various professional positions, including technical support and training for CNC-controlled machine tools and 3D measuring machines as well as the management of quality assurance, she qualified for further training via the second educational path. She graduated from high school in 1992, followed by the placement test at the Fernuniversität Hagen in 1994. There she began with the 2nd semester Magister major in sociology.

Scientific career

From 1992 to 1994 Pfeiffer studied production technology at the Ulm University of Applied Sciences . During her studies she received a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation . From 1994 she took a master's degree in sociology at the Fernuniversität Hagen with the minor subjects philosophy and psychology . The master's thesis from 1998 deals with the subject of work and the Internet using the example of information broking. It was published in 1999 under the title "Dem Spürsinn auf der Spur". In 2003, in addition to her work at the Institute for Social Science Research eV [ISF] Munich, she did her doctorate with Uwe Schimank and Wieland Jäger at the Fernuniversität Hagen on work capacity and reflective computerization.

After graduating, Pfeiffer worked as a freelance sociologist in Munich. From 2000 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant at the non-university ISF Munich, where she is still a board member today. There she carried out numerous empirical research projects on the change in work. Pfeiffer obtained with her habilitation thesis from December 2008 "Leib - Stoff - Dialektik. Sketches of a general sociological research program from the perspective of work" the general Venia Legendi for sociology at the Fernuniversität Hagen in the department of cultural and social sciences . From September 2010 on, she was Professor of "Innovation and Creative Development" at the University of Munich , and in April 2014 she was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Hohenheim . At the end of 2017, she accepted the offer of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for the W3 professorship for sociology with a focus on technology - work - society.

Research priorities

"Work is my profession" and "There is nothing more social than work". Pfeiffer deals with the interaction between people, technology and organization. For them, work is a central mode of participation and communalization in society. She therefore researches and teaches from different perspectives on this aspect. The conceptual and empirical work has a focus on the sociology of work and industry, borrowing from the sociology of technology, organization and knowledge. Her research also relates to changes in work and computerization, as well as to innovation processes and nutritional poverty.

The focal points include:

  • Experience, work capacity and qualifications
  • Social innovation, complexity and sustainability
  • Informatization, technology and web 2.0

Working capacity

Work capacity is a central concept in Pfeiffer's work. The theoretical foundation took place in 2003 in the dissertation of the same name. Work capacity includes the qualitative side of the workforce as informal and implicit human skills (e.g. empirical knowledge ). As an analytical category, work capacity is used to empirically grasp the immaterial side of work, for example in the production of knowledge .

innovation

The design of working relationships is essential for social innovations. Within the framework of this focus, teaching (management of social innovations) is not only about contradictions in the development of "processes that go through the production, distribution and consumption of goods", but also about the necessary social design mandate.

Informatization and Web 2.0

A special focus, especially in connection with the empirical research at the ISF, is the question of informatization and social media under the keyword Web 2.0 . The strong influence of the change in modern work or also knowledge work through information technology is reflected here.

Selected publications

Books (monographs)

Books (co-editor)

  • Adami, Wilfried; Lang, Christa; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Rehberg, Frank (ed.) (2008): Assembly needs experience. Experience-based knowledge work in flexible assembly systems. Munich / Mering: Hampp.
  • Bauer, Hans G .; Böhle, Fritz; Munz, Claudia; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Woicke, Peter (2006): A sense of high-tech. Experience-based work and learning in high-tech work areas. Updated and supplemented version of the first edition from 2002, Bielefeld: Bertelsmann.
  • Baukrowitz, Andrea; Berker, Thomas; Boes, Andreas; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Blacksmith, Rudi; Will, Mascha (ed.) (2006): Informatization of Work - Society in Transition. Berlin: edition sigma.
  • Böhle, Fritz; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Sevsay-Tegethoff, Nese (Ed.) (2004): Coping with the unplannable. Wiesbaden: Verlag Sozialwissenschaften

Essays

  • Pfeiffer, Sabine (2013): Web, Value and Work. In: Dolata, Ulrich; Jan-Felix Schrape (ed.): Internet, Mobile Devices and the Transformation of the Media. Radical change as gradual reconfiguration, Berlin: edition sigma, pp. 177–198.
  • Pfeiffer, Sabine (2012): Scientific knowledge and experience, their importance in innovative companies and what this has to do with (vocational) education. In: Kuda, Eva / Bernd Kaßebaum / Georg Spöttl / Jürgen Strauss (eds.): Academicization of work: Does vocational training still have a future? Hamburg: VSA, 203-219.
  • Pfeiffer, Sabine; Schuett, Petra; Wühr, Daniela (2012): About the difficult letting go: Companies in the implementation of Enterprise 2.0. In: Beyreuther, Tabea; Duske, Katrin; Eismann, Christian; Hornung, Sabine; Kleemann, Frank (ed.), Consumers @ work: On the new relationship between companies and users in Web 2.0, Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 53–63
  • Böhle, Fritz; Pfeiffer, Sabine; Porschen, Stephanie; Sevsay-Tegethoff, Nese (2011): Rule through Objectification. On the change of domination in the company In: Bonß, Wolfgang; Lau, Christoph (ed.): Power and rule in reflexive modernity. Weilerswist: Velbrück, pp. 244–283
  • Pfeiffer, Sabine (2010): Hunger in the affluent society. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: Selke, Stefan (ed.): Critique of the food banks in Germany: Determining the position of an ambivalent social problem. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 91-107.
  • Jäger, Wieland; Pfeiffer, Sabine (1996): "Work is fire that creates life" - Marx's concept of work and Lars Clausen's draft of a modern sociology of work. (PDF; 1.6 MB) In: Arbeit (Journal for Labor Research, Work Design and Labor Policy), Issue 2, 5th year, pp. 223–247.

Quotes and individual references

  1. ↑ teaching. www.sabine-pfeiffer.de, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Personnel reports December 2017. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, December 18, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Homepage of Sabine Pfeiffer at https://www.sabine-pfeiffer.de
  4. ^ Note in the context of a lecture during the cooperation conference "Cooperation 2.0" on 23/24. June 2014 in Tutzing.

Quotes:

  1. ↑ "The design of better working conditions is not just a normative question, but a socially necessary challenge" (Sabine Pfeiffer at https://www.sabine-pfeiffer.de/soziale-innovation-komplexitaet-nachhaltigkeit ).

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna