Sighard Neckel

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Sighard Neckel (2010)

Sighard Neckel (born October 25, 1956 in Gifhorn ) is a German sociologist and professor of social analysis and social change at the University of Hamburg .

Career

Neckel studied sociology, law and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld and at the Free University of Berlin , where he graduated in 1983 with a diploma in sociology. From 1984 to 1997 he was a research associate, employed in a research project and research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. In 1990 he received his doctorate with a thesis on “Status and Shame. For the symbolic reproduction of social inequality ” . In 1996 the habilitation followed with a community study on a Brandenburg city after the political upheaval in East Germany.

Sighard Neckel at the 2016 Sociology Congress in Bamberg

In 1997 Neckel first took up a professorship for sociology and empirical social research at the University of Siegen , which was followed in 2000 by a professorship for general sociology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . From 2001 to 2007 he held the Chair of General Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen before moving to the Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna in the 2007/08 winter semester , where he has also been Head of the Institute since October 2008. In the 2011/2012 winter semester, he switched to a professorship with a focus on social inequality at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 2011 to 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at Frankfurt University. In 2016 Neckel accepted a call to the University of Hamburg. Since 2019 he has been the spokesman for the DFG-Kolleg research group "The Future of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control", which he heads together with Frank Adloff . Neckel has also been involved in a sub-project in the Collaborative Research Center 1171 “Affective Societies” at the Free University of Berlin since 2019.

Sighard Neckel's research focuses on economic and financial sociology, inequality research, the social analysis of modern capitalism, the sociology of sustainability, cultural sociology and the sociology of emotions. In his empirical research, Neckel is sociologically and ethnographically oriented.

From 2000 to 2017 Neckel was a member of the college of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. He held various visiting professorships and fellowships, including at Duke University (USA), at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, at the college research group for post-growth societies at Jena University, at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Vienna, Seoul National University (South Korea) and Macquarie University Sydney (Australia). From 1989 to 1995 Neckel was co-editor of PROKLA - journal for critical social science , from 1996 to 2009 co-editor of the journal for social science Leviathan . Between 2011 and 2013 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Sociology (DGS). Neckel has been a member of the German Research Foundation's (DFG) expert committee for “Sociological Theory” since 2016 . In 2010, together with Ana Mijic, Christian von Scheve and Monica Titton, he received the René König Textbook Award from the German Society for Sociology for the textbook “Sternstunden der Soziologie. Groundbreaking theoretical models of sociological thinking ”(Campus-Verlag).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Rolf Ebbighausen (Ed.): Anatomy of the political scandal . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-11548-0 .
  • Status and shame. For the symbolic reproduction of social inequality . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-593-34576-5 .
  • The power of distinction: forays into modern everyday life. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11730-5 ; modified and expanded new edition: The power of distinction. Essays on the cultural sociology of modern society . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36623-1 .
  • with Helmuth Berking and Ronald Hitzler (eds.): Politicians in Europe . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11949-9 .
  • with Michael Schwab-Trapp (Ed.): Orders of violence. Contributions to a political sociology of violence and war . Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2306-X .
  • Forest life. An east German city in transition since 1989 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36247-3 .
  • with Jörn Lamla (Ed.): Politicized consumption - consumed politics . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14895-8 .
  • Escape to the front. The successful culture of the market society . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38758-1 .
  • with Hans-Georg Soeffner (Ed.): Mittendrin im Abseits. Ethnic group relationships in the local context . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 3-531-14710-2 .
  • Capitalist realism. From the art action to social criticism . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39182-3 .
  • with Claudia Honegger and Chantal Magnin: Structured irresponsibility. Reports from the banking world . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12607-3 .
  • with Ana Mijic, Christian von Scheve and Monica Titton: Great moments in sociology. Groundbreaking theoretical models of sociological thinking . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39181-6 .
  • with Greta Wagner (ed.): Performance and exhaustion. Burnout in the competitive society , Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-12666-0 .
  • with Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner (eds.): Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-52886-1 .
  • with Natalia Besedovsky, Moritz Boddenberg, Martina Hasenfratz, Sarah Miriam Pritz and Timo Wiegand: The society of sustainability. Outline of a research program . Transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4194-3 .
  • with Lukas Hofstätter and Marco Hohmann: The global financial class. Business, career, culture in Frankfurt and Sydney. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50900-6 .

Web links

Commons : Sighard Neckel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professorship Neckel: Professorship for social analysis and social change. University of Hamburg, accessed on February 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/
  3. ↑ https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/teilprojekte/B/B06/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Neckel, Sighard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifhorn