Stefan Hirschauer

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Stefan Hirschauer (* 1960 ) is a German sociologist and university professor.

Hirschauer studied sociology and philosophy at Bielefeld University from 1979 to 1985 with a degree in sociology.

For 1985–1989 he received a doctoral scholarship and conducted field research in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. Hirschauer received his doctorate in 1991, and in the same year he received the Mullins Award of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Boston for his dissertation on the social construction of transsexuality . From 1992 to 1998 he was a university assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, his habilitation took place in 1998. From 1999 to 2000 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation, 1999 visiting professor at the Center de Sociologie de l'Innovation (Paris), 2000 visiting professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Vienna and 2001 Visiting Scholar at the Department for Science Studies, Cornell University .

From 2002 to 2005, Hirschauer was Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich and since 2006 he has been Professor for Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Mainz .

From 1990 to 1999 he was editor and managing editor of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS).

Fonts

  • The social construction of transsexuality. About medicine and gender change . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Why 'Gender Studies'? Research on gender differentiation between political populism and scientific competition . In: social world . tape 54 , no. 4 , 2003, p. 461-482 , JSTOR : 40878437 .
  • On Doing Being a Stranger. In: Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior , Vol. 35 (2005), H. 1, pp. 41-67.
  • Ethnographic writing and the secrecy of the social. To a methodology of description. (PDF; 2.3 MB) In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 30: 429–451
  • Putting Things into Words. In: Human Studies , Vol. 29 (2006), H. 4, pp. 413-441.
  • Animated Corpses. In: Body & Society , Vol. 12 (2006), H. 4, pp. 25-52.

See also

literature

  • Michael Lynch: Collins, Hirschauer, and Winch. Ethnography, Exoticism, Surgery, Antisepsis and Dehorsification . In: Social Studies of Science 24, 1994, pp. 354-368.

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personal data
SURNAME Hirschauer, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960