Wolfgang Lauterbach (sociologist)

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Wolfgang Lauterbach (* 1960 in Hof / Saale ) is a German sociologist . His research areas include educational sociology , labor market , social structure analysis, status and wealth research .

Lauterbach studied sociology, economics and statistics at the Free University of Berlin . After graduating in 1989, he worked as a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and received his doctorate in 1992 from the Free University . He then worked as a research assistant to Kurt Lüscher at the University of Konstanz, where he completed his habilitation in 1999 . During this time he spent several research stays in the USA, for example in 1994/95 as a DAAD scholarship holder at Harvard University as well as at the "Center for Life Course Research" at Cornell University and at the "Center for Human Development" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

From 2000 Lauterbach was a research assistant with Helmut Fend at the University of Zurich .

In 2002 he accepted the professorship for family, education and life course research at the University of Münster . Lauterbach has been Professor of Social Science Educational Research at the University of Potsdam since 2007 .

In the media, Lauterbach often criticizes that the public has a distorted and "myth-laden image of wealthy people in Germany. He calls for greater differentiation when looking at the wealthy.

Works

  • Thomas Druyen, Matthias Grundmann (Hrsg.): Wealth and wealth in Germany. On the social significance of wealth and wealth research . VS publishing house for social sciences.
  • with Rolf Becker (Ed.): Education as a privilege? Causes of educational inequality from a sociological point of view . VS, Wiesbaden.
  • with T. Klein: educational influences on marriage, the birth of the first child and the career break of women. An empirical analysis of family economic explanations . In: KZfSS . 1994, p. 278-299 .
  • Wealth Research and Social Change. Notes on a Sociology of “Wealth and Fortune” . In: Wealth and Fortune . 2009, p. 119-134 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-91752-8_9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview by Lea Hampel: wealth researcher Wolfgang Lauterbach: "Rich people are often wronged" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 1, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 2, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Doreen Reinhard: Wealth: "With many myths covered" . In: The time . January 14, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 2, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Lauterbach, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof / Saale