Tanja Bogusz

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Tanja Bogusz (* 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German sociologist and anthropologist . She currently teaches and researches as a visiting professor at the University of Kassel on the “Sociology of Social Disparities”.

education

Tanja Bogusz first learned the profession of industrial mechanic specializing in machine and system technology at the vocational and advanced training center of the German Trade Union Federation in Pinneberg near Hamburg and at Krüger Apparatebau, a company for the production of pantographs and bus displays, in Hamburg-Schenefeld . In 1996 she began studying sociology, Romance studies and journalism at the Universities of Hamburg and the Université Paris X - Nanterre . She later studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), among others with the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu , Michel de Fornel and Pierre Encrevé . She completed her master's degree at the Free University of Berlin in 2004 . From 2004 to 2006 she did her PhD at the Free University of Berlin with Wolf Lepenies . She then worked as a research assistant at the chair for general and theoretical sociology with Hartmut Rosa at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. From 2008 to 2012 she was a research assistant at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2010 she was visiting professor at EHESS Paris. At the same time she worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences there. From 2012 on she was a researcher at the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin, where she led the working group “Current and Comparative Social Sciences” with Jérémie Gauthier and Camille Roth. From 2015 to 2016 she was visiting professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2016 she submitted her habilitation on the subject of “Experimentalism and Sociology. From crisis science to empirical science ”at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Since 2016 Bogusz has been visiting professor for “Sociology of Social Disparities” at the University of Kassel.

research

Tanja Bogusz researches mainly in the areas of sociological theory , in particular practical theory , science and technology studies , qualitative social research , as well as internationally comparative cultural and social anthropology .

In her early research, she was mainly concerned with questions of cultural sociology, for example in her dissertation “Institution and Utopia - East-West Transformations at the Berliner Volksbühne”, in which she made a structural comparison of the two fields of cultural production in the GDR and the FRG of her work as an extra at the Berliner Volksbühne . Through her knowledge of the French language and her early study and research stays in France, she developed a sociological profile early on in the field of newer French neo-pragmatist philosophy, in particular on Bruno Latour and Luc Boltanski , as well as Philippe Descola . Bogusz translated several articles by French sociologists into German, such as "Pensée mythique et pensée scientifique" ("Mythical thinking and scientific thinking") by Claude Lévi-Strauss or "Les deux natures de Lévi-Strauss" ("The two natures at Lévi-Strauss “) By Philippe Descola.

One focus of her work today is on the one hand the sociology of the public and criticism. Here Bogusz dealt intensively with Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's idea of ​​the sociology of justification , which they presented with numerous lectures and writings, among others a. introduced the book "Zur actualität von Luc Boltanski" to the German-speaking world. On the other hand, she researches methodology and the relationship between naturalism and constructivism as paradigms for social science and the concept of ecology in sociology. In 2012 she accompanied a marine biological expedition for biodiversity research to Papua New Guinea . In her more recent work she locates herself more in the field of science and technology studies and research into human-environmental relationships. Bogusz uses the pragmatic philosophy according to John Dewey to establish the sociological experimentalism she developed, here in particular under the catchwords social collaboration, heterogeneous cooperation and inter- and transdisciplinarity .

Social Cohesion Ecologies

Tanja Bogusz was able to successfully complete the interdisciplinary graduate program “Ecologies of Social Cohesion” in 2017 together with Jörn Lamla , Franziska Müller, Anke Ortlepp, Kai Ruffing and Sabine Ruß-Sattar. Heterogeneity and hybridity in a synchronous and diachronic comparison ”at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel.

She is a member of the steering group of the Graduate Center for Environmental Research and Education at the University of Kassel.

Memberships

Tanja Bogusz is a board member of the cultural sociology section of the German Society for Sociology (DGS), as well as a member of the sociological theory, environmental sociology and science and technology research sections of the DGS. In addition, she is a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Center d'études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS / IMM), EHESS Paris, as well as the editorial board of the magazine Pragmata, Association des études pragmatistes. She is a reviewer for various specialist editors, including the Zeitschrift für Soziologie , the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie , the Journal of Classical Sociology, Science & Technology Studies, Space and Culture, Mattering Press and Anthropologie des connaissance.

Curiosities

In 2018, the taxonomists Alberto Cecalupo and Ivan Perugia named the sea snail Joculator boguszae after Tanja Bogusz, who accompanied them on a marine biological expedition to Papua New Guinea in 2012. Various institutions saw this as a living example of the success of interdisciplinary science and technology studies in times of ecological crises and biodiversity losses.

Publications (selection)

Monographs (selection)

  • Institution and Utopia - East-West Transformations at the Berliner Volksbühne . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007. ISBN 9783899427820 .
  • On the topicality of Luc Boltanski. Introduction to his work . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010. ISBN 9783531164250 .
  • Experimentalism and Sociology. From crisis science to empirical science . Campus, Frankfurt am Main & New York 2018. ISBN 9783593509365 .

Editorships (selection)

Articles (selection)

  • Experimentalism instead of explanans? On the topicality of John Dewey's pragmatic research philosophy . In: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 2/2013, focus: “Sociological explanations and explanative sociology”, pp. 52–65.
  • Public sociology as an experimentalist collaboration. On the relationship between social science theory and method in the context of disruptive social change (with Martin Reinhart). In: Selke, Stefan and Annette Treibel-Illian (eds.): Public social sciences. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017, pp. 345–359.
  • From Crisis to Experiment. Bourdieu and Dewey on Research Practice and Cooperation , in Schatzki, Theodore R. and Anders Buch (eds.): Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory. London & New York: Routledge 2018, pp. 156–175.
  • Doing biodiversity. Heterogeneous cooperation in the research of human-environmental relationships , in: Henkel, Anna and Henning Laux (eds.): The earth, the human and the social: on the transformation of social relationships in nature in the Anthropocene. Bielefeld: Transcript 2018, pp. 65–90.
  • End of methodological nationalism? Sociology and Anthropology in the Age of Globalization , in: Soziologie, Heft 2/2018, pp. 143–156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tanja Bogusz: curriculum vitae. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b visiting professor Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz. Center Marc Bloch, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c FB05 Social Sciences: Visiting Professor Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Experimentalism and Sociology, a book by Tanja Bogusz - Campus Verlag. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Graduate program Ecologies of Social Cohesion. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Graduate Center for Environmental Research and Teaching: organizational structure. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  7. ^ New maritime species named after German sociologist Tanja Bogusz. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Teresa Koloma Beck: boguszae Joculator. In: Sociopolis. October 22, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bogusz, Tanja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg