Stefan Hradil

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Stefan Hradil (born July 19, 1946 in Frankenthal ) is a German sociologist . As a student of Karl Martin Bolte, he first emerged in research on social stratification and milieu formation and was professor of sociology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

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From 1968 to 1974 Hradil studied sociology , political science and Slavic studies at the University of Munich . From 1974 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich. There he received his doctorate in 1979. phil. with the dissertation The Exploration of Power . His habilitation as a Dr. rer. pole. habil. at the Social Science Faculty of the University of Munich with the study “ Social Structure Analysis in an Advanced Society. From classes and layers to locations and milieus ”took place in 1985.

He held his first professorship for sociology (focus: social structure of the Federal Republic of Germany) at the University of Bamberg in 1990/91 . From 1991 to 2011 he was Professor of Sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1991 to 1996 Hradil was a member of the Commission for Research into Economic and Social Change in the New Federal States (KSPW), appointed by the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs and the Federal Minister for Research and Technology. The Budapest University of Technology and Economics awarded him the Dr. hc sc. oec. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

From 1995 to 1998 Hradil was chairman of the German Society for Sociology (DGS). From 2001 to 2012 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Schader Foundation .

Hradil works in the areas of social structure analysis , social inequality , social milieus and lifestyles , singles and the development of modern societies.

Publications (selection)

  • Analysis of social structures in an advanced society . Opladen 1987
  • Social inequality , Wiesbaden 2001
  • The social structure of Germany in international comparison , Wiesbaden ²2006

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Remarks

  1. ^ Member entry by Stefan Hradil at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Hradil, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)