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University of Konstanz (UKON)

 

The Institution

The University of Konstanz was founded in the late sixties of the 20 th century as a reform university. The aim was to establish an excellent research oriented university ccomparable with Princeton University, USA. The departments of the University of Konstanz’ three sections (mathematical and natural sciences, law and public administration, humanities) constantly achieve high rankings in the annual evaluation of German universities, both in the field of research grants as well as in teaching all fields. The University of Konstanz upholds partnerships and strong scholarly and educational exchange both of scholars and students with 130 universities worldwide – among them Yale, Brighton, York, Charles University in Prague and other universities, above all in Eastern Europe.

The University of Konstanz’ research administration office has extensive experience in supporting research projects. Large-scale projects conducted at Konstanz have been funded by a wide range of national and international foundations, among others through the Framework Programmes of the European Commission.

The Person in Charge of the project consortium “Crime and Culture”, Professor Hans-Georg Soeffner, holds the chair for the Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Religion at the University of Konstanz and is director of the ”Sozialwissenschaftliches Archiv Konstanz”, which has become the Central Archive of the German Sociological Society. Professor Soeffner has an excellent international reputation in empirical research and theory construction rooted in a plentitude of projects in a wide range of sociological fields.

 

Members of the Project Team

 

Professor Hans-Georg SOEFFNER , Chair for Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Religion, University of Konstanz, Germany, Person in Charge of the Project

 

Address

University of Konstanz

Department for History and Sociology

Universitätsstr. 10

Web address: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/soziologie/

Tel: ++49 7531 882344

Fax: ++49 7531 883194

 

Present Positions

Chair for Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Religion at the University of Konstanz, Germany, Director of the “Sozialwissenschaftliches Archiv” (Archive of Social Sciences), Konstanz, Germany, Chairman of the advisory board of the Goethe-Institute, Chairman of the Thyssen Foundation award jury, Vice chairman of the German Sociological Society, Expert Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service.

 

Qualification for the Accomplishment of the Task

Hans-Georg Soeffner is one of the most influential German representatives of a qualitative-hermeneutical sociology in the tradition of a phenomenologically oriented Sociology of Knowledge. As director of the “Sozialwissenschaftliches Archiv” / Central Archive of the German Sociological Society, he manages a highly reputable instition for the research of the history of sociology with high international standing. He brings to the project his international reputation and his experience and competence in the field of worldwide scholarly communication, which is documented by his participation in different international networks and institutions. For example, the archive so-operates with the Alfred-Schütz Archive at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and is a founding member of the OPO (Organization of Phenomenological Organisation), a worldwide network of phenomenological researchers and research institutions, located at Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. Through frequent international conferences on key topics, the archive is very influential in the development of qualitative social research and of sociological theory in Germany.

Since 1975, Prof. Soeffner has conducted and co-odinated over 35 national and international research projects in various fields central to the discipline of sociology.

 

Education

  • Studies at the universities of Tübingen, Cologne and Bonn where he received his PhD in sociology of communication, philosophy, and literature in 1972
  • ”Habilitation“ in 1976 with a monograph entitled ”Basic Concepts of the Theory of Communication“.

 

Skills

  • University lecturer at the University of Essen, 1976
  • Professor for sociology at the University of Hagen, 1980-1994
  • Professor for sociology at the University of Konstanz, since 1994
  • Since 1994 Director of the “Sozialwissenschaftliches Archiv” (Archive of Social Sciences), Konstanz, Germany, designated in 2002 as the Central Archive of the German Sociological Society
  • Visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco, at the University of California, Berkeley, Boston University, University of Santiago de Chile and at the Universities of Vienna and Zurich
  • Main research subjects are sociology of knowledge, sociogy of law, sociology of communication, sociology of cultur, sociology of communication and sociology of religion.
  • He has published essays and books on themes such as social utopia, methodology of sociological hermeneutics, manifestations of religious faith in modern societies, social types, forms of social profiling, ‘symbolic forms’ of social order, sociology of media and political socioloy
  • Editor of the scientific journal “Soziologische Revue”.

 

Research and Policy Advisory Projects (selection)

  • 1982 - 1984 Empirical study “Soziale Deutungsmuster von Subkulturen“ (DFG-Project).
  • 1985 - 1989 “Interaktionstyp: Einzelfallorientiertes Vernehmen - Zur Überformung alltäglicher sozialer Wahrnehmungsschemata und normativer Orientierungen im institutionellen Kontext polizeilicher Vernehmung von jugendlichen Tatverdächtigen“ (DFG-Project).
  • 1985 - 1995 “Typisierung und Selbsttypisierung - Eine Langzeitstudie zu Einstellung und Einstellungswandel von jugendlichen gegenüber Rechtsstaat und Demokratieverständnis“, Ministry of Justice of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • 1986 “Kommunikative Formen der gesellschaftlichen Organisation des Wissens“ with J. Bergmann, T. Luckmann und I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt
  • 1987 - 1991 “Veränderung oder Entwicklung von professionellen Verhaltensstandards und Handlungsnormen als Reaktion auf einen neuen Krankheitstypus (AIDS)“ with Anselm Strauss, University of California.
  • 1990 - 1993 ”Delinquenz von Sinti und Roma“, funded by the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1995 - 1998 “Jugendumfrage - Einstellung von Jugendlichen zu Staat und Gesellschaft in den alten und neuen Bundesländern“ with Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Chair of Criminology, Institute of Sociology, TU Dresden
  • 1995 “Theatrale Inszenierungen politischen Handelns in den Medien“ with PD Dr. Ronald Kurt and Dr. Dirk Tänzler. DFG-Project within the framework research program ”Theatralität“
  • 1994 - 1998 “Kommunikative Konfliktpotentiale zwischen Frauen und Männern“. A MWF “Frauenforschung an den Universitäten“ project.
  • 1999 ”Cultural Globalization in Germany“ with Hansfried Kellner, Frankfurt University. Subproject of the international Project ”Cultural Globalization“ conducted by Prof. Dr. Peter L. Berger, Boston University and Prof. Dr. Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard University.

 

Published Books (selection)

  • Der geplante Mythos - Untersuchungen zur Struktur und Wirkungsbedingung der Utopie [1972], Hamburg 1974.
  • Interpretative Verfahren in den Sozial- und Textwissenschaften, Stuttgart 1979.
  • Beiträge zu einer empirischen Sprachsoziologie , Gunter Narr, 1982.
  • Beiträge zu einer Soziologie der Interaktion , Campus, 1984.
  • Sozialstruktur und soziale Typik , Campus, 1986.
  • Die Ordnung der Rituale - Die Auslegung des Alltags 2, Surkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1992.
  • Charisma - Theorie, Religion, Politik , de Gruyter, 1993.
  • Kooperation und Führung , Stile und Praktiken an Amts- und Landgerichten, Abschlußbericht des Forschungsprojektes im Auftrag des Justizministers des Landes NRW , März 1994.
  • Die Objektivität der Ordnungen und ihre kommunikative Konstruktion, für Thomas Luckmann ; Suhrkamp, 1994.
  • Kultursoziologie zwischen Kulturwelten und Weltkultur, Symposium zu Joachim Matthes [Hg.], Zwischen den Kulturen? Die Sozialwissenschaften vor dem Problem des Kulturvergleichs, in Soziologische Revue 1/1995, S. 10-19.
  • Zusammen mit Max Miller [Hg.], Modernität und Barbarei. - Soziologische Zeitdiagnose am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt/M. 1996.
  • Gesellschaft ohne Baldachin. Kultur und Religion in der pluralistischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt/M. 2000.
  • Zusammen mit Dirk Tänzler [Hg.], Figurative Politik. Zur Performanz der Macht in der modernen Gesellschaft, Opladen 2002.
  • Zusammen mit Wilhelm Heitmeyer [Hg.], Gewalt. Entwicklungen, Strukturen, Analyse-probleme, Frankfurt a. M. 2004.
  • Auslegung des Alltags – Der Alltag der Auslegung. Zur wissenssoziologischen Konzeption einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Hermeneutik, 2. durchgesehene und ergänzte Auflage, Konstanz 2004.

 

 

Prof. Dr. Dirk TÄNZLER , Scientific Co-ordinator of the Project Consortium

 

Address

University of Konstanz

Department of History and Sociology

Universitätsstr. 10

D-78457 Konstanz

Tel: +++49 7531 883129

Fax: ++49 7531 883194

E-mail: dirk.taenzler@uni-konstanz.de

 

Present Positions

  • Visiting Lecturer at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
  • Visiting lecturer at Zurich University, Switzerland
  • Visiting lecturer at Luzern University, Switzerland
  • Co-director of the research project “History of German Sociology”, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

 

Qualification for the Accomplishment of the Task

As an experienced researcher and co-ordinator of several empirical projects on different subjects (the rise of entrepreneurs as a new social class in the former GDR, the reconstruction of former socialist companies in the Czech Republic, the sociology of politics in historical perspective), Dr. Tänzler is highly qualified in the a nalysis of the cultural aspect of social action under changing societal conditions in modern and transformation societies.

As a member of several administrative committees at the University of Konstanz and long-standing co-director of academic and applied research projects, Dr. Tänzler has excellent management skills in administrative and personnel affairs.

 

Education

Habilitation at University of Konstanz, 2005

Ph.D. at Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-University Frankfurt (Main), 1990

Diploma in Sociology at Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-University Frankfurt (Main), 1982

Studies of Philosophie and Sociology at Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-University Frankfurt (Main).

 

Skills

  • Empirical fieldwork and ethnography of work and organisation
  • Qualitative methods in social research, especially sociological content and sequential analysis of text and picture in research and teaching

 

Scholarships and awards

  • Scholarship Frankfurt University (Graduiertenförderung des Landes Hessen), 1985
  • Award for Excellence in Higher Education Instruction, Federal State of Baden- Württemberg, 2005 (Landeslehrpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg 2005)

 

Research and Policy Advisory Projects

  • Co-director of the research-project “Theatrale Inszenierungen politischen Handelns in den Medien“ as part of the DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm “Theatralität“ at the University of Konstanz, 1999-2003
  • Research associate at the Brandenburg-Berliner Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, 1998
  • Research fellow in the reseach group “Transformation und Globalisierung“ at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 1993-1997
  • Research fellow in the research group “The Rise of Entrepreneurs and a new Middle Class in Eastern Germany” at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University, USA, 1992-1993
  • Management and policy consultant Time-Marketing Corp., Neu Isenburg, Germany and Dr. Peschke & Partners, Bad Homburg v.d-H, Germany, 1990-1992
  • Research fellow in the research project “Kohortenstudie Sexuelles Handeln” at the department of Sexology at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, 1990

 

Administration

  • Elected member of the Senate of the University of Konstanz since 1999
  • Member of the committees for communication and information (including library matters), since 2002
  • Member of the central advisory committee for examinations, since 1999
  • Member of the commission of appointment for the professorship “Empirical Social Research and Opinion Survey” 2001
  • Member of the commission for selecting members for the supervisory board of University of Konstanz, 2002 and 2004
  • Member of the committee for the foundation of a joint study program with the St. Gallen University, Switzerland on “Sociology of Economy, Organisation and Culture”, 2000-2001
  • Member of the curriculum committee “Literatur-Art-Media” at University of Konstanz
  • Member of commitee for communication and information 2002 - 2005
  • Member of the central advisary commitee for examination 1999 - 2005

 

Publications (selection)

 

Books

  • Das Inzestverbot. Untersuchungen zur Struktur sozialer Konstitution, Ph.D Thesis Universität Frankfurt a. M. 1990 (Microfiche)
  • (Ed.), Der Tschechische Weg. Transformation einer Industriegesellschaft (1918-1998), Frankfurt a. M., Campus 1999, 244 S.
  • Figurative Politik. Zur Performanz der Macht in modernen Gesellschaften, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2002
  • Theatrokratie. Zur Kritik der politischen Ästhetik, Habilitation Universität Konstanz, 2005 (forthcoming)
  • with Hubert Knoblauch & Hans-Georg Soeffner (Eds.): Neue Perspektiven der Wissenssoziologie, Konstanz, UVK, 2006
  • with Hubert Knoblauch & Hans-Georg Soeffner (Eds.): Kritik der Wissensgesellschaft, Konstanz, UVK, 2006 (forthcoming)
  • with Achim Brosziewski & Anne Honer (Ed.): Alfred-Schütz-Workedition Volume VI,2: Relevanz und Handeln 2. Gesellschaftliches Wissen und politisches Handeln, UVK, Konstanz, 2007 (forthcoming)

 

Articles and Book Chapters

  • with Gerlinde Dörr & Tanja Kessel, Die Tschechische Ausnahme. Politische Weichenstellung und betriebliche Restrukturierung, in: Hedwig Rudolph (Ed.), Geplanter Wandel, ungeplante Wirkungen. Handlungslogiken und -ressourcen im Prozeß der Transformation, Berlin: WZB-Jahrbuch 1995, p. 307-325
  • with Frank W. Heuberger, Existenzgründer in Ostdeutschland. Pioniere einer neuen Wirtschaftskultur, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte B 15/96 from April, 5 1996, p. 33-46 reprint in: Michael Wicke (Ed.), Konfigurationen lebensweltlicher Strukturphänomene, Opladen, Leske + Budrich 1997, p. 252-275
  • with Frank W. Heuberger, Zalozyciele Nowych Firm W Niemczech Wschodnich Pionierzy Nowejkultury Gospodarczej, in: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Büro Schlesien (Ed.), Nowa Przedsie­biorczosc I Nowa Klasa Srednia W Nowych Landach Niemieckich Gliwice 1996, p. 49-70 (polnische Über­setzung von Heuberger/Tänzler 1996)
  • mit Ivana Mazálková, Dezentralisierung und Rezentralisierung. Restrukturierung eines tschechi­schen Maschinenbaukonzerns, WZB-Discussion-Paper FS II 96-601, Berlin 1996, 20 pages
  • Dezentralisierung und Rezentralisierung, in: WZB-Mitteilungen 73, September 1996, p. 28-30
  • with Gerlinde Dörr, Tanja Kessel & Ivana Mazálková, Modes of Restructuring. Empi­rical Research in Czech Industry, Czech Sociological Review, Volume IV, 2/1996, p. 252-255
  • Ökonomische Vernunft und lebensweltlicher Eigensinn. Ein rationalitätstheoretischer Typisie­rungsversuch ostdeutscher Existenzgründer, in: Michael Thomas (Ed.), Selbständige-Gründer-Unternehmer. Passagen und Paßformen im Umbruch. Berlin: Berliner Debatte 1997, p. 175-187
  • Zur Professionalisierung des osteuropäischen Managements in der Transformation, in: Michaela Pfadenhauer (Ed.), Explorationen zum Begriff des professionellen Handelns. Documentation of the 1. Workshop of the Research Group Professionalism, February, 28, to March,1, 1997 at the Institute for Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Uni-Druck, Mai 1997, p. 33-37
  • with Ivana Mazálková: K transformaci jednoho českého strojního koncernu. In: K sociologické reflexi modernizace, AUC, Philosophia et historica, Carolinum, Praha 1998, p. 119-135
  • Solidarität und Sachlichkeit. Transformation eines ostdeutschen Arbeitsmilieus, in: Ulf Matthiesen (Ed.), Die Räume des Milieus. Neue Tendenzen in der sozial- und raumwissenschaftlichen Milieuforschung, in der Stadt- und Raumplanung, Berlin, Sigma 1998, p. 303-324
  • Verallgemeinerung und Trivialisierung der Professionssemantik am Beispiel der Manager, in: Michael Corsten (Ed.), Professionspolitik. Documentation of the 3. Workshop of the Research Group Professionalism, June, 5-6,1998, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung Berlin, p. 15-18
  • Radikaler Bruch und lange Dauer. Zur Rückkehr der Geschichte in Osteuropa, Biss public 25/1998, p. 7-32
  • with Ivana Mazálková, Zur Professionalisierung postsozialistischen Managements. Kulturelle Einbettung und ökonomische Rationalisierung, in Biss public 28/1999, p. 261-270
  • with Ivana Mazálková: Postsocialistický management mezi zajištšováním kariéry a. In: Společenské procesy a jejich aktéři, AUC, UK Praha, Carolinum, Praha 2000, p. 123-135
  • Das ungewohnte Medium. Hitler und Roosevelt im Film, in Sozialer Sinn. Zeitschrift für hermeneutische Sozialforschung Vol. 1, 2000, p. 93-120
  • Politiker in den Medien - Alles nur Theater?, in Uni'Kon 3/2001, p. 6-7
  • with Hans-Georg Soeffner, Medienwahlkämpfe. Hochzeiten ritueller Politikinszenierung, in: Andreas Dörner & Ludgera Vogt (Eds.): Wahl-Kämpfe. Betrachtungen über ein demokratisches Ritual, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp 2002, p. 92-115
  • Maskenball für die Medien. Die Politik als Werbearena, in: Journalistik 6. Jg., Nr. 1/2003, p. 11
  • Zur Geschmacksdiktatur in der Mediendemokratie. Ein Traktat über politische Ästhetik, in: Merkur. Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 11/2003, p. 1025-1033
  • Der Charme der Macht. Zur medialen Inszenierung politischer Eliten am Beispiel Franklin D. Roosevelts, in: Ronald Hitzler, Stefan Hornbostel & Cornelia Mohr (Eds.): Elitenmacht, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 275-291
  • Theatrokratie. Oder: Zur Geschmacksdiktatur in der Mediendemokratie, in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christian Horn, Sandra Umathum und Matthias Warstat (Eds.): Diskurse des Theatralen, Tübingen/Basel, Francke 2005, p.135-149
  • Repräsentation als Performanz. Die symbolisch-rituellen Ursprünge des Politischen im Leviathan des Thomas Hobbes?, in: Jan Andres, Alexa Geisthövel und Matthias Schwengelbeck (Hg.): Die Sinnlichkeit der Macht. Herrschaft und Repräsentation seit der frühen Neuzeit, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus 2005, S. 19-44
  • with Jürgen Raab: Video-Hermeneutics, in Hubert Knoblauch, Jürgen Raab, Bernt Schnettler und Hans-Georg Soeffner (Hg.): Video-Analysis. Methodology and Methods. Qualitative Audiovisual Data-Analysis in Sociology, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang 2006, S. 85-97
  • Von der Seinsgebundenheit zum Seinsverhältnis. Wissenssoziologie zwischen Gesellschaftsanalyse und Hermeneutik der Kulturen, in: Dirk Tänzler, Hubert Knoblauch und Hans-Georg Soeffner (Hg.): Neue Perspektiven der Wissenssoziologie, Reihe Erfahrung-Wissen-Imagination, Konstanz, UVK-Verlagsgesellschaft 2006, S. 317-335

 

 

Dr Angelos GIANNAKOPOULOS , teaching and research fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz

 

Address

University of Konstanz

Department of History and Sociology

Universitätsstr. 10

D-78457 Konstanz

Tel: ++49 7531 883129

Fax: ++49 7531 883194

E-mail: angelos.giannakopoulos@uni-konstanz.de

 

Responsibilities within the Overall and German projects

Responsible for communication management as the head of the Network Office, elaboration of methodology, writing of research reports, articles, organisation and participation in all project meetings and conferences in collaboration with the project partners, dissemination of research and project findings.

 

Qualification for the Accomplishment of the Task

Detailed Curriculum Vitae

 

Research Assistant

  • Ms. Bettina Grimmer, M.A.

 

 

   
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