Walter L. Bühl

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Walter Ludwig Bühl (born January 1, 1934 in Pocking ; † April 26, 2007 in Munich ) was a German sociologist .

Life

Bühl studied philosophy , sociology and education . In 1965 he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on the "school structure and distribution of educational opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany". phil. PhD. In 1969 he completed his habilitation alongside his professional activity as a Bavarian high school teacher for sociology at the former State Economics Faculty of the University of Munich .

This is followed by lectureships at the universities of Munich (C3 professorship from 1970 to 1974) and Bern . After brief teaching in Switzerland, Bühl became a full C4 professor for sociology (Chair I) at the University of Munich on October 1, 1974, succeeding Emerich K. Francis and worked there until March 31, 1996. His main focus was on sociology Theory, knowledge and science sociology , cultural sociology and political sociology .

As of October 1, 1998, Armin Nassehi was appointed his successor to the chair .

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According to Bühl (1969), since Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber , the basic dilemma of a “realistic sociology” has been that according to the underlying two-valued logic , polar terms are used, such as “community - society” or “Vergemeinschaftung - Vergesellschaftung” . This sociology-dominant two-valued thinking had been practically overcome by Georg Simmel , who implicitly assumed a three-valued, but not reflected theoretically-methodologically. With this, Bühl Gotthard joins Günther's draft of a non- Aristotelian , multi-valued logic and advocates using the binary logic “assumption of simplicity” with its a priori subject-object unit in the sense of a “assumption of complexity” that also includes the time dimension of social processes as a new starting point for “developable Alternative theories ”to be overcome methodologically and theoretically. Bühl's philosophically based criticism (“Flucht in die Paradoxie” [2000]) of Niklas Luhmann's reflective sociological guiding concept of the society of society , like his criticism of binary sociology, is based on Gotthard Günther.

Important works

  • The end of two-valued sociology , in Soziale Welt , vol. 20, 1969, pp. 162–180 ( PDF )
  • Evolution and Revolution , Munich, 1970.
  • Conflict and conflict strategy , Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1972.
  • Introduction to the Sociology of Science . CH Beck, Munich 1974.
  • Theories of Social Conflict , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1976.
  • Transnational Politics , Stuttgart, 1978.
  • Ecological scarcity , Göttingen, 1981.
  • Structure and dynamics of human social behavior , Tübingen, 1982.
  • The order of knowledge , Berlin, 1984.
  • Kulturwandel , Darmstadt 1987.
  • Social change in imbalance , Stuttgart, 1990.
  • Germany in a socio-economic system comparison , Opladen, 1992.
  • Responsibility for Social Systems , Stuttgart, 1998
  • The collective unconscious in postmodern society , Konstanz, 2000.
  • Phenomenological Sociology , UVK, Konstanz 2002. ISBN 3-8966-9806-0
  • Historical sociology - theorems and methods , LIT, Münster / Hamburg / London 2003. ISBN 3-8258-6585-1

literature

  • Michaela Pichlbauer / Siegfried Rosner (Eds.), System Dynamics and System Ethics. Responsibility for social systems. Commemorative publication for Walter Ludwig Bühl , Rainer Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering 2008, ISBN 978-3-86618-299-8

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cf. Walter L. Bühl: Luhmanns Flucht in die Paradoxie , in: P.-U. Merz-Benz / G. Wagner [ed.], The logic of systems. On the criticism of systems theory by Niklas Luhmann , Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz, 2000, pp. 225–256. ( online PDF, 328 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Bühl, Walter L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühl, Walter Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Pocking
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2007
Place of death Munich