Wolfgang Glatzer

Wolfgang Glatzer (born September 15, 1944 in Hohenborau , Glogau district , Silesia ) is a German sociologist and professor emeritus .

Life

Wolfgang Glatzer grew up in Reundorf (Lichtenfels) and completed his Abitur in 1964 at the Meranier-Oberrealschule Lichtenfels . From 1966 to 1972 he studied sociology, economics and social policy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and graduated with a diploma.

From 1972 to 1978 Wolfgang Glatzer worked as a research assistant in the DFG research group "Social Policy Decision-Making and Indicator System for the Federal Republic of Germany" in Frankfurt am Main. He moved to the University of Mannheim and received his doctorate there with Wolfgang Zapf , Eberhard Wille and Hans Albert Dr. phil. Glatzer dealt considerably with the different sociologies in Germany and sought their integration.

From 1979 to 1984 he was head of the Collaborative Research Center 3 “Microanalytical Basics of Social Policy” in Mannheim. In 1982 he spent several months doing research at Stanford University , California. In 1984 he was appointed to a professorship in Frankfurt. The professorship had the denomination of “social structural and cultural change”, his work priorities, which have developed over the decades, were social structure , quality of life , welfare state and household production. In terms of methodology, it has social indicators research and social reporting permanently interested.

Wolfgang Glatzer belongs to national and international scientific networks and has published publications in twelve languages ​​alone and in cooperation.

He retired in September 2009 , but continues to work in the social sciences. Wolfgang Glatzer is married and has two children and four grandchildren.

In the network of sociology

At the beginning of his studies, Glatzer attended a proseminar with Theodor Adorno and gave a lecture on “Integration and Differentiation with Herbert Spencer” in the large lecture hall of the university. "At the beginning of the second semester I had to give my lecture in front of 600 participants in the largest lecture hall of the Goethe University, framed by the SDS greats Krahl and Wolf. Since then I had to struggle with lecture anxiety. Adorno gave me a certificate with very good ..." The Frankfurt sociology was highly differentiated at the time: Wolfgang Glatzer attended events on the side of "critical theory" (in addition to Adorno: Max Horkheimer , Alfred Schmidt , Ludwig von Friedeburg and Jürgen Habermas ) as well as on the side of other sociological approaches ( Walter Rüegg with Ruth Meyer and Alfred Bellebaum , Thomas Luckmann and others). Glatzer worked with scientists from Frankfurt and Mannheim for more than two decades on the "SPES project" and "Sfb-3". The research group was founded by Hans-Jürgen Krupp and Wolfgang Zapf and included Karl Ulrich Mayer , Richard Hauser, Reinhard Hujer and other economists and sociologists. Wolfgang Glatzer had international collaborations with, for example, Theodore Caplow, Henri Mendras, Simon Langlois, Rudolf Andorka, Salustiano del Campo, Richard Estes, Joe Sirgy, Kenneth Land and Alex Michalos. The poverty researcher Werner Hübinger (1957–2000), who died early, was a student of Wolfgang Glatzer.

Significance and effects

Wolfgang Glatzer is considered a pioneer of social indicator research . Since the 1970s he has contributed a number of innovative publications to public-oriented social reporting and dealt with the socio-structural and cultural change in modern societies. The focus was on analyzes of society in Germany, especially the unification process since 1990. Problems of household production (and housekeeping) and the welfare state (social justice and social inequality) are major issues in his work. International comparative analyzes with regard to social structure, quality of life and welfare development were carried out by him in international teams. Wolfgang Glatzer took on management positions in various national and international scientific associations and was a successful organizer of local and international science congresses.

Social science activities (selection)

Wolfgang Glatzer was a founding member of the international research group Comparative Charting of Social Change (1987), the Commission for Research into Social and Political Change in the New Federal States (KSPW) (1991), and spokesman for the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Technology Research (IATF) at the University of Frankfurt (1994–1996), the research group for social policy and social structure (2006). Chairman of the Social Indicators Section in the German Society for Sociology (1989–1995). He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (1991/92 and 1996/97) and President of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (2003/2004) and has been Past President of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies since 2005.

Glatzer was the main organizer of the 25th German Sociological Conference in Frankfurt am Main (1990) and the ISQOLS world conference Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World in Frankfurt am Main (2003).

Also chairman of the Philosophical Doctoral Commission (1999-2004), chairman of the examination committee for the access of particularly qualified professionals to the universities of the state of Hesse in the department (2001/04) and chairman of the joint intermediate examination committee for the teaching posts at grammar schools in the humanities and social science subjects (2002-2006).

Awards

• 2005: Honorary President of the international conference Towards Quality of Life Improvement in Wrocław / Poland
• 2014: Honor for life's work on the occasion of the 70th birthday by the Social Indicators Section at the congress of the German Society for Sociology on October 9th in Trier
• 2015: Presentation of the Distinguished Quality of Life-Researcher Award by the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, on October 17th in Phoenix

Works (selection)

• With Eike Ballerstedt: Sociological Almanac - Handbook of Sociopolitical Data and Indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany. Campus Verlag 1975.
• Housing supply in the welfare state. Campus Verlag 1979, ISBN 3-593-32621-3 .
• 25th German Sociologist Day - The Modernization of Modern Societies. 1991
• Development tendencies of the social structure. 1992
• Attitudes and living conditions in Europe. 1993
• Living conditions in Eastern Europe. 1996
• Quality of Life in Countries Undergoing Rapid Social Change. 1998
• Views of society. 1999
• Rich and Poor - Disparities, Perceptions, Concomitants. 2002
• Wealth in the judgment of the population. 2009
• Global Handbook of Quality of Life. 2015

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Glatzer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Dr. Wolfgang Glatzer. In: fb03.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .  ; Ansgar Weymann, Wolfgang Glatzer: Pioneer of Social Indicators Research and Social Reporting. In: Applied Research in Quality of Life: The Official Journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Vol. 8, 2013, pp. 117–120.
2. ^ Obituary for Werner Hübinger , Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, March / April 2001, accessed January 22, 2018
3. ^ German Society for Sociology: "Distinguished Quality of Life Researcher Award." In: soziologie.de. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .