Thomas Kron

Thomas Kron (born January 2, 1970 in Lank-Latum ) is a German sociologist and university professor .

Kron studied sociology , political science and media studies at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 1992 to 1997 and at the same time worked as a student assistant at the Association of German Engineers , Department of Future Technologies . After completing his master's degree , he was a research assistant and later a research assistant at the Fernuniversität Hagen and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Kron received his doctorate in 2000 from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and completed his habilitation in 2005 at the Fernuniversität Hagen, where he obtained the Venia Legendi for the subject sociology. In 2006/07 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and was also a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford during this time . In 2006 he took on a substitute professorship at RWTH Aachen University ; there he has been a full professor of sociology since 2007 .

Among other things, Kron works on the fuzzy logic modeling of Niklas Luhmann's system theory . He is based on the assumption that the complexity of social systems can be represented more appropriately using fuzzy logic than using two-valued systems theory.

Fonts (selection)

• Reflexive terrorism . Weilerswist 2015.
• Contemporary sociological theories. Central contributions from Germany . Wiesbaden 2010.
• Customization . Bielefeld 2009 (with Martin Horácek).
• The complicated actor. Proposal for an integral actor-theoretical frame of reference . Munster 2005.
• Moral individuality. A critique of the postmodern ethics by Zygmunt Bauman and its sociological implications for a social order through individualization . Wiesbaden 2001.
• Action - Structures - Dynamics. Introduction in Sociology . Altdorf UR 2004 (with Uwe Schimank ).

Editorships

• Social hybridity - hybrid sociality . Weilerswist 2015.
• Analytical sociology in discussion . Wiesbaden 2010 (with Thomas Grund).
• Analysis of Transnational Terrorism. Sociological Perspectives . Wiesbaden 2007 (with Melanie Reddig).
• Zygmunt Baumann. Sociology between postmodernism, ethics and contemporary diagnoses . Wiesbaden 2007 (with Matthias Junge ).
• The society of literature . Opladen, 2004 (with Uwe Schimank).
• Luhmann modeled. Socionic approaches to the simulation of communication systems . Wiesbaden 2002.
• Zygmunt Baumann. Sociology between postmodernism and ethics . Wiesbaden, 2002 (with Matthias Junge).
• Individualization and Sociological Theory . Wiesbaden 2000.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Kron in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Kron on the website of the Institute for Sociology at RWTH Aachen University