Sigrid Metz-Göckel

Sigrid Metz-Goeckel during a conference, 2007

Sigrid Metz-Göckel (born August 18, 1940 in Klein Peterwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German sociologist , political scientist and social psychologist with a focus on women and gender studies as well as educational research and university didactics . She is professor emerita at the Technical University of Dortmund . Sigrid Metz-Göckel co-founded women's research in Germany.

Life

Sigrid Metz-Göckel's father, Franz-Josef Schneider, was a primary school teacher . The mother, Helene Schneider, raised the children alone after the father died as a soldier in World War II . Sigrid Metz-Göckel attended a Polish elementary school. After long refugees, the family moved to Dunum in Lower Saxony in 1950 .

After graduating from the old-language branch of the Sophia School in Hanover , Metz-Göckel studied economics in Mainz and from 1961 to 1966 studied sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , which she graduated with a diploma. In 1972, she was for a doctoral program in the subjects of social psychology and political science at the University of Giessen with a dissertation on Hochschuldidaktik between theory and practice to Dr. phil. PhD. She was a research assistant at the sociological seminar at the University of Giessen and at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt. She did research stays at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , at Wellesley College and at the University of Berkeley .

Act

Sigrid Metz-Göckel has made a significant contribution to the institutionalization of women 's and gender studies as a new field of science that emerged in the context of the new women's movement . In 1976 she was appointed to a professorship at the University of Dortmund and tasked with setting up the University Didactic Center, which she headed with a focus on women and gender studies until 2002. In the 1970s she was one of three professors at TU Dortmund University. Together with female students, she initiated the advanced training course 'Women's Studies' in 1979, which she established at the TU Dortmund University in 1981, a range of courses aimed at full-time, part-time or voluntary workers in women's work and of which she was the scientific director until 2002.

In the 1980s, she and the sociologist Ursula Müller carried out a study on the differences between men, which was published in 1986 under the title Der Mann. A representative study of the living situation and the image of women among 20 to 50 year old men was published. It was the second study on men after that by Helge Pross on behalf of Brigitte magazine . Metz-Göckel and Müller were particularly interested in the emancipation of men and their image of women. They understood emancipation to mean recognizing and supporting women as 'equals'. With this study the new women's research began in Germany. From 2000 to 2002 she was in charge of the evaluation of the International Women's University (ifu) "Technology and Culture" during the Expo 2000 in Hanover.

Since her retirement in 2005, she has continued to oversee research projects and dissertation projects; Among other things, she participates in the women's and gender research network in North Rhine-Westphalia , which she co-founded, and has set up the 'rebellious women' foundation . Since 2006, the foundation has presented the "Rebellious Woman of the Year" award annually to women who can be role models for others.

Sigrid Metz-Göckel describes herself “as a passionate scientist and a crossover between science and science policy, who, as a member of civil society, is committed to social justice and the improvement of the situation of women.” University lecturer is a “wonderful job for women”.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (September 24, 1998)

Memberships and Activities

• 1989–1992 Expert member of the Bundestag commission "Future of Education - Education 2000"
• 1992–1994 member of the Senate Commission of the German Research Foundation for Social Science Research on Women
• 1992–1994 member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Education Commission
• 1997–1999 Chairwoman of the Commission for the Institutionalization of Women and Gender Studies at Baden-Württemberg Universities, Stuttgart
• Since 2000 initiator and spokesperson of the doctoral program "Knowledge management and self-organization in the context of university teaching and learning processes", Hans-Böckler-Foundation
• Since 2008 member of the University Council of Oldenburg University
• Member of the advisory board of the International Maria Jahoda Professorship at the University of Bochum

Editing of scientific journals and publishing series

• Member of the editorial board and editorial staff of the journal for women's research and gender studies
• Co-editor of the series "Gender and Society" at VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden
• Co-editor of the series "Bildung, Hochschule Innovation" at Lit Verlag , Münster

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrid Metz-Göckel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. (retired). Dr. Sigrid Metz-Göckel, Technical University of Dortmund
• Foundation 'rebellious women', biography Sigrid Metz-Göckel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the biography of Sigrid Metz-Göckel , in: Carola Bauschke-Urban u. a. (Ed.): Subversion and Intervention. Science and gender (dis) order , Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86649-360-5 , p. 395
2. ↑ See: Sigrid Metz-Göckel: Institutionalization of women / gender studies. History and forms , in: Becker, Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbuch Frauen- und Geschlechtforschung, VS Verlag, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8 , pp. 895–903
3. ↑ Chronicle of the New Women's Movement: 1979, Frauenmediaturm
4. ↑ Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 , p. 745 f.
5. ↑ Sigrid Metz-Göckel: The International Women's University 'Technology and Culture' as a concept for promoting women and the elite , in: Margot Poppenhusen (Ed.): University New Thinking: The International Women's University Technology and Culture " (series of publications by the International Women's University" Technology and Culture "), Leske + Budrich Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-8100-3443-4 , p. 43f.
6. ^ Women in North Rhine-Westphalia, portrait of Sigrid Metz-Göckel
7. ↑ Foundation Rebellious Women, Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Sigrid Metz-Göckel, Vita; Research Group Dynamics of Gender Constellations, TU Dortmund
9. ↑ Office of the Federal President