Wulf D. Hund

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Wulf Dietmar Hund, usually abbreviated to Wulf D. Hund (born November 18, 1946 in Dreveskirchen ), is a German sociologist . He is a retired professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg .

Career

After graduating from the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, Hund studied at the Philipps University in Marburg with Wolfgang Abendroth , Werner Hofmann , Heinz Maus a . a. Sociology, Political Science and Philosophy. He was a member of the SDS and was involved in university politics. His cultural sociology studies were reflected in several publications on the sociology of literature, communication and fashion. In his master's thesis he dealt critically with structuralism . His dissertation dealt with problems of a critical analysis of mass communication .

During his work at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics , which merged with the University of Hamburg in 2005 , he conducted research on work , the labor movement, communication, culture and racism. The analysis of racism is now at the center of his research. He also published articles on this in media close to the day, such as the magazines Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik and Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung or in the left-wing daily Junge Welt .

Focus of work

In the discussion about the role of the mass media triggered by the anti-Springer campaign in the 1960s and 1970s , Hund took a Marxist position that emphasized the importance of the relations of production. In this context he also dealt intensively with the analysis of television. His analysis of the development of the Western understanding of work deals with the dialectic of domination and self-realization. This relationship he went u. a. also in the field of culture analysis. In the area of racism research , with which he has been concerned since the murder attacks in Rostock , Mölln and Solingen in 1992/93, he examines racist and other forms of social discrimination in connection with the legitimation of power relations and advocates a comparative historical analysis.

Racism research

Hund analyzes racism as a central pattern of negative socialization. In his view, the positive functions of culture and tradition are not sufficient to stabilize social cohesion in societies with a manorial structure, because their elements are unevenly distributed and often contested. Racism, on the other hand, allows social inclusion by devaluing the culture and tradition of others. He is based on a division of society. On the one hand, there are differently structured social positions that are differentiated according to age, gender, class, etc. Even under the conditions of social discrimination, the individual members of society can develop individual profiles in this way. On the other hand, this is denied by those who are exposed to racial discrimination. They are all considered to be representatives of a racially constructed type.

This operation made use of the concept of race in the modern age. However, it has never relied solely on him and has made other categories the focus of its discrimination in the past. According to Hund, the patterns developed in the process can be characterized by the contrasts between cultivated and barbarian, human and monster, pure and unclean, chosen and devil, civilized and savage, white and colored, as well as full and inferior. While the racial stereotype has lost much of its acceptance because of its historical discrediting by fascism, the barbarian stereotype and the devil stereotype are currently being increasingly used. This brought cultural and religious criteria back to the center of racist discrimination.

Negative socialization

Hund illustrated his considerations with a "model of negative societalization" - in a "diagram, which depicts (as a square) the social nexus of some included social groups (as circles with reciprocal connections) and (as arrows, inward and outward) the lines of the forces of inclusion and exclusion ”. The unequal distribution of social wealth, which leads to hierarchization and dominant distinction, is symbolized by a class pyramid. Their ideological legitimation is illustrated (bearing in mind the centuries-long importance of Christianity for occidental consciousness) “the symbol of an omniscient god, who supposedly wanted the societal conditions to be the way they are”. The inclusion of the individual in society through socialization is indicated by a warning sign. In the process, the individuals are instructed in social spaces that are themselves characterized by inclusion and exclusion: “Depending on age, class membership, gender etc., certain actions are allowed or prohibited and certain spheres are open or closed”. Those who are socially outclassed can only see themselves negatively as full members of society - “by the exclusion of others who are stigmatised as inferior”. To illustrate this dimension of negative socialization serves “one of those triangles standing on their peaks which were used in different colors to mark the prisoners in German concentration camps”.

Recent publications

  • Racism . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007.
  • The bodies of the images of the races. Scientific desecration and racial alienation . In: Wulf D. Hund (Ed.): Alienated bodies. Racism as desecration of a corpse. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 13–79.
  • Racism . In: Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Ed.): Encyclopedia Philosophy. 2nd ext. Edition (3 vol.). Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2010, Vol. 3, pp. 2191-2200.
  • Negative societalization. Racism and the Constitution of Race . In: Wulf D. Hund, Jeremy Krikler, David Roediger (Eds.): Wages of Whiteness & Racist Symbolic Capital. Lit Verlag, Münster 2010, pp. 57–96.
  • It must come from Europe. The Racisms of Immanuel Kant . In: Wulf D. Hund, Christian Koller, Moshe Zimmermann (eds.): Racisms Made in Germany. Lit Verlag, Münster 2011, pp. 69–98.
  • Predestination in the desert? Marginal note on a Fata Morgana by Walter Benjamin . In: Das Argument, 54, 2012, 6 (300), pp. 833-844.
  • Advertising White Supremacy. Capitalism, Colonialism and Commodity Racism . In: Wulf D. Hund, Michael Pickering, Anandi Ramamurthy (Eds.): Colonial Advertising & Commodity Racism. Lit Verlag, Münster 2013, pp. 21–67.
  • Racism in White Sociology. From Adam Smith to Max Weber . In: Wulf D. Hund, Alana Lentin (Ed.): Racism and Sociology. Lit Verlag, Münster 2014, pp. 23–67.
  • Negative socialization. Dimensions of the racism analysis . 2nd adult edition. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2014.
  • Racist King Kong Fantasies. From Shakespeare's Monster to Stalin's Ape-Man . In: Wulf D. Hund, Charles W. Mills, Silvia Sebastiani (Eds.): Simianization. Apes, Gender, Class, and Race. Lit Verlag, Münster 2015, pp. 43–73.
  • How the Germans got white. Small (home) history of racism . JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-04499-0 .
  • Racism and anti-racism . Papyrossa, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-89438-666-5 .

Features

  • Keep your fists ready. TV film by Wulf D. Hund and Thomas Frickel . Norddeutscher Rundfunk November 15, 1992.
  • Peter Huemer in conversation with Wulf D. Hund. Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, January 9, 1997.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Wulf D. Hund: Intellectual work and social formation. On the critique of structuralist ideology . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1973
  2. ^ Wulf D. Hund: Ware news and information fetish. On the theory of social communication . Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt 1976.
  3. ^ Putty of the class society. Racism must be understood as a social relationship, in: Junge Welt, February 22, 2020, pp. 12-13.
  4. ^ Wulf D. Hund, G. Dahlmüller, H. Kommer: Critique of television. Manual against manipulation . Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1973.
  5. ↑ Wulf D. Hund, G. Dahlmüller, H. Kommer: Politische Fernsehfibel. Class communication materials. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974.
  6. ↑ Keyword: work. From penniless to travail attractif. Distel Verlag, Heilbronn 1990; Work . In: H. J. Sandkühler (Ed.): Encyclopedia Philosophy. 2nd ext. Edition. Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2010, Vol. 1, pp. 143–151.
  7. ^ Wulf D. Hund, D. Kramer (Ed.): Contributions to the materialistic cultural theory . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1978.
  8. ^ Wulf D. Hund: Heinrich Vogeler - Hamburg shipyard workers. From the aesthetics of resistance. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  9. ↑ “Dominant societies stick together not only through their own culture and tradition, but also through classifying those of others as inferior or denying them at all. The togetherness of the unequal creates sub-humans ”(WD Hund: Negative Vergesellschaftung, p. 123).
  10. ↑ See WD Hund: Rassismus, pp. 34–81.
  11. ↑ See http://www.bdwi.de/bdwi/unleichheit/231881.html
  12. ^ WD Hund: Negative Societalisation. Racism and the Constitution of Race. In: Wages of Whiteness & Racist Symbolic Capital, pp. 85 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hund, Wulf D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreveskirchen