Thomas Jahn (sociologist)
Thomas Jahn (* 1952 in Tübingen ) is a German sociologist . Jahn is one of the founders of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt am Main , where he has been working as a scientist since 1989; he is the spokesman for the institute's management and scientific director.
Studies and PhD
Thomas Jahn studied sociology , politics , German literature and history at the Universities of Freiburg and Frankfurt am Main . During his studies he was active in university politics and as publisher and editor of the student magazine diskus . He was also a member of the so -called radical left wind orchestra . In 1989 he received his doctorate on the subject of “Crisis as a form of social experience. Outlines of a socio-ecological concept of society ”.
Careers and Functions
At the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK-F) he is the spokesman for the focus area “ Ecosystem Services and Climate”. His main research interests are social relations to nature , transdisciplinary methods and concepts, and socio-ecological science research. He works at ISOE as a research assistant in the research focus “Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts”, which he headed until 2015. He focuses on socio-ecological science research, developing and applying methods of transdisciplinary research and knowledge integration.
Publications (selection)
Monographs and edited volumes
- Methods for Transdisciplinary Research. A primer for practice. Frankfurt am Main / New York, Campus Verlag 2012 (with Matthias Bergmann , Tobias Knobloch / Wolfgang Krohn , Christian Pohl, Engelbert Schramm ; also in German, 2010)
- Egon Becker / Thomas Jahn (eds.): Social ecology. Basic features of a science of the social relations of nature. Frankfurt am Main / New York, Campus Verlag 2006
- Egon Becker / Thomas Jahn (eds.): Sustainability and the Social Sciences. A cross-disciplinary Approach to integrating environmental Considerations into theoretical Reorientation. London / New York, Zed Books 1999
- Eckhard Deutscher, Thomas Jahn, Bernhard Moltmann (Eds.) Development models and world views. Frankfurt am Main, Societäts-Verlag 1995
- Thomas Jahn / Peter Wehling Ecology from the right: Nationalism and environmental protection in the New Right and the "Republicans" . Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus 1991
- Crisis as a form of social experience. Frankfurt am Main, publisher for intercultural communication 1991
more publishments
- Socio-ecological design in the Anthropocene. GAIA 29 (2), 93–97, 2020 (with Diana Hummel, Lukas Drees, Stefan Liehr, Alexandra Lux, Marion Mehring, Immanuel Stieß, Carolin Völker, Martina Winker, Martin Zimmermann)
- Sustainable Science in the Anthropocene. GAIA 24 (2), 92–95, 2015 (with Diana Hummel , Engelbert Schramm)
- Science for sustainable development needs a critical orientation. GAIA 22 (1), 29-33, 2013
- Problem-oriented discourse field analysis - new method and possible applications. ISOE study texts No. 15, 2009 (with Alexandra Lux)
- Outlines of a critical theory of social relations to nature , in: Gernot Böhme / Alexandra Manzei, (ed.): Critical theory of technology and nature. Wilhelm Fink: Munich, 91–112 (with Egon Becker)
- Conceptual focusing and participatory networking of knowledge. IOSE study text No. 8. Frankfurt am Main, ISOE, 2000 (with Eric Sons & Immanuel Stieß)
- Socio-ecological research. Conceptual framework for a new funding: Policy synopsis of the report for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. ISOE discussion paper 8. Frankfurt am Main, ISOE, 2000
- Research Policy for Sustainable Development. Monitoring study on behalf of the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag. Frankfurt am Main, ISOE, 1996 (with Peter Wehling & Ines Weller)
- Assessment of the state of research in the field of "ecological fields of action" under socio-ecological aspects. Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Social-Ecological Research, 1993
- Possibilities and goals of a promotion of the social-ecological future research. [Hanover], Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment, [1992]
- Frankfurt in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area. Frankfurt am Main, IKO-Verl. for intercultural communication, 1989, 2nd, unchanged edition
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Jahn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bibliography 1989-2013
- The sociologist Thomas Jahn talks about hopeful concepts and challenges (hr-Doppelkopf)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahn, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |