Personal Data
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Office:
Institut für Soziologie, Konradstr. 6, 80801 München, Germany |
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Home:
Heinz-Hilpert-Str. 4, 81739 München, Germany |
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Office: x4989-2180-3242 (Frau
Heindl) |
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Mobil:
x49160-400-1699 |
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Current Position
Professor
emeritus of Sociology, Institut für Soziologie, Universität München, Munich,
Germany |
Educational Background
1953-56 |
Universität
Hamburg: Business Administration, Economics, Civil Law, Dutch, English |
1956 |
Diplom-Kaufmann
(Business Degree) |
1956-57 |
University
of Kansas: Graduate Study in Business Administration and Social Psychology |
1957 |
Master
of Business Administration: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
1959 |
Dr. phil.
(Sociology, Psychology, Business Adm.): Universität
Hamburg, Germany |
1961-66 |
Wissenschaftlicher
Assistent, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg |
1966-67 |
Fellowship,
awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies: Postdoctoral Research
at the Department of Sociology of “The University of Chicago” |
1967 |
Habilitation
(Sociology): Privatdozent, Universität
Hamburg |
Employment
1959-61 |
Marketing
Manager in Industry: Unilever Germany, Hamburg |
1961-69 |
Universität
Hamburg: Assistant, Sociology 1961-1968, Universitätsdozent,
Sociology 1968-69 |
1969-72 |
RWTH
Aachen (Aachen Institute of Technology): Professor of Sociology ("Was macht man, wenn keiner Rektor sein will?"
Aachener Volkszeitung) |
1972-73 |
Universität
Wien, Vienna, Austria: Professor of Sociology |
1973-2002 |
Universität München, Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Institut für Soziologie |
Awards
1956-57 |
Fulbright
Scholarship, University of Kansas |
1958-59 |
Studienstiftung des
deutschen Volkes,
scholarship for graduate work toward doctorate |
1966-67 |
American
Council of Learned Societies: American Studies Fellow |
1984 |
Killam
Visiting Scholar, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(Sept./Dec.) |
1990 |
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD), Bonn: Travel grant for sabbatical leave at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque (Aug.-Dec.) |
1991 |
Fulbright
Professorship for summer school teaching at the University of Colorado at
Boulder (July-Aug.) |
Professional Activities
1970-71 |
Dean,
Philosophische Fakultät, RWTH Aachen |
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1973 |
Visiting
Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA (July-Sept.) |
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1979-88 |
Chairman,
Sektion für Soziologie, Görres-Gesellschaft |
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1981-82 |
Visiting
Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara |
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1981 |
Nov.
25.: Interview with Herbert Blumer in Berkley,
California |
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1982 |
Chairman,
Symposium 8: Revisions and Relations among Modern Microsociological
Paradigms, 10th World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City |
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1984 |
Sept.-Dec.:
Visiting Professor (Killam Scholar) The University of Calgary, Alberta |
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1984-86 |
Department
Head, Institut für Soziologie Universität München |
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1985 |
March: Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium |
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1986-87 |
Nov.-Feb.:
Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland |
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1986-88 |
Elected member of university
senate, Universität München |
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1988 |
August:
Organizer and director: OASIS Summer-School (Organization for Advanced
Studies in Interpretative Sociology), an English language summer institute at
the Universität München,
co-taught with Tamotsu Shibutani, Friedrich Tenbruck and others |
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1988-89 |
Nov.-Feb.:
Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland |
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1989 |
April:
Visiting Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas |
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1989-90 |
Nov.-Feb.:
Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland |
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1990 |
Aug.-Dec.:
Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. |
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1991 |
Jan.:
Visiting Professor at Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
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1991 |
March-May:
Exchange Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
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1991 |
Jul.-Aug.:
Fulbright Professor during summer school, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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1991-92 |
Nov.-Feb.:
Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland |
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1991-93 |
Department
Chair, Institut für Soziologie, Universität München |
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1993 |
March:
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
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1995 |
Research:
University of Hawaii at Manoa (April-May),
University of California at Santa Barbara (June-July). Teaching: University
of Colorado at Boulder (August) |
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1995 |
Sept.-Oct.:
Guest lectures in Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Seoul |
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1996 |
March:
Guest lectures in Seoul and Beijing, first visit to China |
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1996 |
April:
Co-Chair, International Conference on George Simmel's Actual
and Potential Impact on Contemporary Sociology: University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) |
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1997 |
March:
Guest lectures and research contacts in Seoul and Beijing |
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1997 |
Aug.-Sept.:
Presenter at International Conference of Interuniversity Cooperation and
Exchange, 3rd visit to Peking University, research contacts in Seoul, Kyoto,
and Tokyo |
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1998 |
March-Apr.:
Research contacts in Seoul (Shamanism) and Beijing
Oct.: Prof. Jing Tiankui,
Beijing, visits Universität München (picture) |
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1999 |
March-Apr.:
Research visit to Beijing, Guiyang, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou, financed by the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG). |
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1999 |
Sept.-Dec.:
Visiting Professor: University of Maine at
Farmington, Maine, U.S.A. |
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2000 |
Jan.-Apr.:
Visiting Professor: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A. |
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2000 |
August:
Visit to Professor Phillip E. Hammond (1921-2009), Department of Religious
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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2001 |
June
(1-10): China: Lecture and research contacts at Tongji
University (picture) in Shanghai with field trips to the Shanghai
temple district Chenghuang, and to Zhouzhuang, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. |
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2001 |
June
(10-13): Korea: Lecture at the German-Korean Conference in Seoul: Korea and
Germany at the Threshold of the 21st Century. |
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2002 |
Jan.:
Visit to Shanghai. August: Visit to Boston, New York, the University of Maine
at Farmington, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
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2003 |
Aug.-Oct.:
Two months in China with professional contacts at Peking University and guest
lectures at Fudan University and Tongji University in Shanghai, and at Huaqiao
University in Quanzhou. |
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2004 |
May:
Visit to Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. - Sept. 15-18:
Presenter at the XII Congress of the Polish Sociological Association in
Poznan, Poland. |
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2005 |
Febr.:
Research contacts at Fudan University, Shanghai,
and at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. |
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2006 |
Jan.-May:
Guest professor at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, U.S.A. |
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2007 |
Sept.-Oct.:
Guest teaching: Peking University and Dalian Technical University, China.
Visit at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. |
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2008 |
March:
Guest lectures at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou Campus, at Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai Campus, at Huaqiao
University, Quanzhou, at Peking University, Beijing, and at the
German-Japanese Work Workshop “Family and Work” in Tokyo. |
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2010 |
Aug.-Dec.: Guest professorship at Sanya College in Sanya, Hainan, China, partially financed by Stiftungsinitiative Johann Gottfried Herder, sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Oct.: Guest lectures at Huaqiao University in Xiamen, Fujian, China. |
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2011 |
Sept.-Nov.: Guest professorship at Huaqiao
University in Xiamen, China, partially
financed by Stiftungsinitiative JohannGottfried Herder, sponsored by Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD). |
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2012 |
March-June
and Aug.-Nov.: March-June and Aug.-Nov.: Guest teaching at Huaqiao University in Xiamen, Fujian. Nov.-Dec.: Teaching
assignment at Sanya College (renamed Sanya University). |
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2013 |
Feb.-June and Sept.-Dec.:
Teaching and research assignments at Sanya University. |
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2014 |
March-July: Teaching and
research assignments at Sanya University. Oct.-Feb.
2015: Teaching assignment at Munich University. |
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2015 |
Publication project on
China. Travels to Paris and Rome. |
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2016 |
Oct.- Feb. 2017 Teaching
assignment at Munich University. |
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Membership
in Learned Societies
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Areas
of Teaching Interest
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I. Books as author: 1. Die
unstetig beschäftigten Hafenarbeiter in den nordwesteuropäischen Häfen. Eine industriesoziologische
Untersuchung in Antwerpen, Bremen, Bremer-haven, Hamburg und Rotterdam,
(Ph.D.-thesis), Stuttgart: G. Fischer 1960. |
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2.
Soziologie und Symbol. Ein Beitrag zur Handlungstheorie und zur Theorie des
sozialen Wandels, (Habilitationsschrift). Köln und Opladen: Westdeutscher
Verlag 1969. |
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3.
Familie - Zwischen Bibel und Kinsey-Report, Osnabrück: A. Fromm 1974. |
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4.
Verstehende Soziologie und Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion, Stuttgart:
B. G. Teubner 1977. |
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5.
Soziologie und Symbol. Verstehende Theorie der Werte in Kultur und
Gesellschaft, 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflg. Berlin: Duncker &
Humblot 1980. |
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6.
Aufsätze zur Familiensoziologie. (Reihe Soziologenkorrespondenz, Bd.11),
München: Sozialforschunginstitut München e.V. 1985. |
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7.
Dilthey, Simmel und Verstehen. Vorlesungen zur Geschichte der Soziologie.
Frankfurt/M., Bern, New York: Peter Lang 1986. |
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8.
Soziologie und Erkenntnistheorie bei Georg Simmel. Darmstadt: Wissen-schaftliche
Buchgesellschaft 1988. |
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9.
Verstehende Soziologie und Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion, 2. überarb.
und erw. Aufl., Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner 1992. |
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10.
Einführung in die Soziologie, 2. Auflg., München: Oldenbourg 1997. |
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11.
Religionssoziologie - Die Entwicklung der Vorstellung vom Heiligen. München:
Oldenbourg 1997. |
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12. Verstehende
Soziologie: Lehrbuch, München: Oldenbourg 1999. |
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13.
Georg Simmel: Introduction to his Theory and Method, München:
Oldenbourg 2001. |
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14.
Georg Simmel: Einführung in seine Theorie und Methode, München: Oldenbourg
2001. |
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15.
Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion. Ein Beitrag zum Verstehenden Ansatz in
Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 3. überarbeitete Auflg., Wiesbaden:
Westdeutscher Verlag 2001. |
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16.
Symbolic Interaction and Verstehen. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Peter Lang
2005. |
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17.
Messages from Georg Simmel. Leiden: Brill 2013. |
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18.
Messages from Georg Simmel (paperback), Chicago: Haymarket Books 2014. |
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19.
The Social Thought of Georg Simmel. Los Angeles: SAGE 2015. |
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20.
China: Promise or Threat? A Study in Cultural Evolution, Leiden: Brill 2017
(Nov. 2016). |
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II. Books as editor 1.
(Editor) Kultur und Institution. Aufsätze
und Vorträge aus der Sektion für Soziologie, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
1982. |
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2.
(Co-editor) S. N. Eisenstadt and H. J. Helle (eds.), Macro-Sociological
Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory, vol. 1, London, Beverly Hills,
New Delhi: SAGE Publications, (International Sociological Association) 1985. |
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3.
(Co-editor) H. J. Helle and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds.), Micro-Sociological
Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory, vol. 2, London, Beverly Hills,
New Delhi: SAGE Publications, (International Sociological Association) 1985. |
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4. (Editor) Georg Simmel, Gesammelte Schriften zur
Religionssozio-logie. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1989. |
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5.
(Editor) Verstehen and Pragmatism. Essays in Interpretative Sociology.
Frankfurt/Main, Bern, New York, Paris: Peter Lang 1990. |
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6.
(Co-editor) Pierpaolo Donati
and Horst J. Helle (eds.), La Famiglia Oggi/Familie Heute. Annali di Sociologia/Soziologisches Jahrbuch 6
1990-I-II. Trento: Temi. |
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7. (Co-editor
and translator) H. J. Helle und L. Nieder (eds.), Essays on Religion by Georg
Simmel, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. |
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