Stephan Lessenich

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Stephan Lessenich (* 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German sociologist and politician ( courage ). From 2013 to 2017 he was chairman of the German Society for Sociology .

Life

Lessenich studied political science , sociology and history at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1983 to 1989 . In 1993 he received his doctorate from the University of Bremen . From 1999 to 2001 he was a habilitation scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation and completed his habilitation in 2002 at the University of Göttingen in sociology .

From 2004 he was professor of sociology with a focus on comparative social and cultural analysis at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director there, together with Klaus Dörre and Hartmut Rosa , of the DFG research group "post-growth societies" at the institute for sociology. In the 2014/2015 winter semester, he was appointed full professor to the chair for social developments and structures, successor to Ulrich Beck , at the Institute for Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His areas of work are the political sociology of social inequality , comparative macro-sociology , welfare state research , capitalism theory and the sociology of old age .

Lessenich is divorced and has one son. In June 2017 he was involved in founding the party courage and became one of its founding chairmen. He was one of the party's top candidates in the state elections in Bavaria in 2018 .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Welfare State, Labor Market and Social Policy in Spain. An exemplary analysis of post-authoritarian change. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1367-6 , (also dissertation University of Bremen, 1993).
  • Dynamic immobilism. Continuity and change in the German social model. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2003, ISBN 3-593-37376-9 , (also habilitation thesis Universität Göttingen, 2001).
  • Reinventing the social. The welfare state in flexible capitalism. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-746-2 .
  • with Hartmut Rosa and Klaus Dörre : Sociology - Capitalism - Critique: A Debate. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-29523-6 .
  • Introductory theories of the welfare state. Junius, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88506-699-6 .
  • with Tina Denninger, Silke van Dyk and Anna Richter: Life in retirement. For renegotiating the age in the active society. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2277-5 .
  • Stephan Lessenich on Paul Lafargue: The right to be lazy. Laika Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-942281-54-6 .
  • edited with Mario Neumann, Thomas Seibert, Andrea Ypsilanti : Regieren different? About a change that is imminent but will not occur. Edited by the Solidarity Modern Institute . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89965-604-6 .
  • with Jens Borchert: Claus Offe and the critical theory of the capitalist state. Routledge, New York / London 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-88742-8 .
  • Next to us the flood. The externalization society and its price. Hanser, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-44625-295-0 .
  • What's wrong with democracy? A debate with Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich and Hartmut Rosa , edited by Hanna Ketterer and Karina Becker, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29862-6 .
  • Limits of democracy. Participation as a distribution problem. Reclam, Ditzingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-15-011237-3

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Stephan Lessenich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. zeitzuhandeln-bayern.de, accessed on March 30, 2017
  2. Stamm's new party is called "Courage". In: sueddeutsche.de. June 2, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  3. Candidates for the state elections in Bavaria in 2018 ( memento of the original from September 29, 2018 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. at mut-bayern.de, accessed September 29, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mut-bayern.de
  4. Stephan Lessenich ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2016 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. , Website of the German Society for Sociology, accessed on November 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soziologie.de
  5. Members of the Scientific Advisory Board , Attac website, accessed on November 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Committees , website of the Schader Foundation, accessed on November 21, 2016.
  7. ^ Scientific Advisory Board , website of the Basic Income Network, accessed on November 21, 2016.