Stefan Selke

Stefan Selke 2015

Stefan Selke (* 6. October 1967 in Rheinfelden / Baden as Stefan Guschker ) is a German sociologist and professor at the Faculty of Health, Safety, Society of Furtwangen University .

Life

Selkte studied aerospace engineering in Aachen from 1987 to 1991 . He lived in Bauru / São Paulo (Brazil) in 1991 and 1992 . This was followed by studies in sociology , philosophy , anthropo-geography and Portuguese literature and linguistics at the University of Bonn from 1993 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a project manager at the institute for social sciences infas . He was in sociology at the University of Bonn in 2002 graduated with the case study imagery and real life . A sociological study on the role of private photos in the meaningfulness of one's own life .

From 2004 to 2006 Selke represented the chair for sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Villingen-Schwenningen (Police University) . Then he was between 2006 and 2008 research assistant at the Karlsruhe University of Education and the Institute for Regional Studies of the University of Karlsruhe .

In 2008 Selke became professor for "Media Sociology" at the Furtwangen University , since 2011 for the subject "Social Change". Since 2015 he has also been a research professor for “Transformative and Public Science” and is concerned with new models for the co-production of knowledge and public sociology . In addition, he taught at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 2008 to 2014 and was a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Salzburg in 2015 .

Selke is the author of books and articles in national and international journals as well as the editor of scientific anthologies. He also gives lectures and, as a publicly effective sociologist, is a frequent guest on numerous television and radio programs.

Scientific focus

His main areas of research include the topics of poverty economics and social sustainability (especially the theme of " panels in Germany"), Transformative and Public Science (particularly Public Sociology), Social change, social transformations, social and diagnoses, social utopias and social innovation as well as digitization in healthcare (especially lifelogging and self-tracking).

In the research field of poverty economics, Selke dealt intensively with food tables in Germany. He became known to a broader public, especially between 2008 and 2013, as a critic of the so-called "Tafel movement". To this end, a demonstration took place together with people affected by poverty in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. This action was exhibited in the House of History in 2018 as an example of organic public sociology.

In essence, Selke criticizes the lack of social sustainability of the help given to food banks, which only cares for the poor. He demands that the food banks must question themselves in order to prevent an irreversible perpetuation of poverty supply without structural poverty reduction. With the book Schamland. Poverty in the Middle of Us (2013), Selke presented an extensive social study on food banks, soup kitchens, social department stores and similar institutions that alleviate poverty.

Memberships (selection)

• Network technology assessment
• International Sociology Association
• German Society for Sociology (2013/2014 blogger of the society)
• Research group blackboard
• Founding member of the "Critical Action Alliance 20 Years of Food"
• European Society for Sociology
• Scientific advisory board of the Schader Foundation

Publications (selection)

As an author

• Imagery and reality of life. A sociological study on the role of private photos in the meaningfulness of one's own life. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2002

• Almost at the bottom. How to get full in Germany with the help of food bars. Westfälisches Dampfboot , Münster 2008, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-89691-754-6
• Food banks in Germany. Aspects of a social movement between food redistribution and poverty intervention. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-353116-139-6
• Shame land. The poverty among us. ECON, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3430201520
• Lifelogging. How digital self-measurement is changing our society. ECON, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3430201674
• The money distributor from Mirabellplatz. A social utopia . Tectum Verlag, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8288-4169-7

As editor

• with Ulrich Dittler : Postmedial Realities. How future media are changing society. Heise, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-393693-163-1

• Criticism of the food banks in Germany: Determining the position of an ambivalent social phenomenon. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17354-2
• with Ulrich Dittler: Post-media realities from an interdisciplinary perspective. New contributions to the future of the media. Heise, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-93693-168-6
• with Katja Maar: Transformation of the blackboards: Current contributions to the discussion from theory and practice of the blackboards. Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 3531180126

• Lifelogging. Digital self-measurement and life logging between disruptive technology and cultural change . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10415-3
• with Annette Treibel : Public Social Sciences. Basics, fields of application and new perspectives. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-16709-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Selke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Stefan Selke
• Stefan Selke's blog "Stable lateral position"
• Posts by Stefan Selke on the blog of the German Society for Sociology

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Furtwangen University: Stefan Selke. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Boards divide society. In: Caritas NRW. February 5, 2019, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Stefan Selke: It's set up: dining in Germany! Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Furtwangen: Furtwanger university professor speaks on the subject of poverty. In: Südkurier.de. October 7, 2019, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Stefan Selke - SozBlog. Retrieved on March 23, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Action Alliance 20 - START. Retrieved March 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Stefan Selke. In: Schader Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .