{"id":1759,"date":"2019-04-03T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturwissenschaften.de\/person\/dr-hans-georg-soeffner\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:55:50","slug":"dr-hans-georg-soeffner","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-hans-georg-soeffner\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studium der Germanistik, Philosophie, Kommunikationswissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte und\u00a0Soziologie an den Universit\u00e4ten T\u00fcbingen, K\u00f6ln und Bonn.
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since 2013
\nPermanent Visiting Fellow, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
\nsince 2010
\nSenior Fellow at the K\u00e4te Hamburger Kolleg \u201cLaw as Culture\u201d, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
\n2009-2013
\nGuest Professorship, University of Luzern
\nsince 2008
\nBoard member and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen
\nsince 2007
\nSenior Fellow \u201cExzellenzcluster Religion und Politik\u201d, University of M\u00fcnster
\n2007, 2009
\nGuest Professorship, University of St. Gallen
\n1996, 2011-2013
\nGuest Professorship, University of Vienna
\n1996
\nGuest Professorship, University of California, Berkeley
\n1994-2008
\nProfessorship for Sociology, University of Konstanz
\nsince 1994
\nHead of the researchteam \u201esociology of knowledge\u201c and director of the archive of social sciences, University of Konstanz
\n1993
\nProfessorship for Sociology, University of Potsdam
\n1993
\nGuest Professorship, Boston University
\n1992
\nGuest Professorship, Universidad Santiago de Chile
\n1986-1992
\nGuest professorship, University of Zurich
\n1984, 1987, 1991
\nGuest professorship, University of California, San Francisco
\n1984-1994
\nMember of the research team of Anselm Strauss, USA
\n1980-1992
\nProfessorship, FernUniversit\u00e4t in Hagen
\n1978-1980
\nProfessorship, University of Duisburg-Essen
\n1976
\nHabilitation, University of Duisburg-Essen; Venia Legendi: communication studies\/sociology of communications
\n1972
\nPhD, philosophy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
\n1966
\nFirst state examination, philosophy and german studies<\/p>\n

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Memberships and cooperations <\/strong><\/p>\n

2011-2013
\nMember of \u201cStrukturkommission zur Evaluierung\u201d, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
\n2008-2018
\nTogether with Prof. Dr. Dieter Gutzen, head of education seminars for DAAD lectorssince 2008
\nCooperation, Stiftung Mercator
\n2007-2011
\nChairman, German Sociological Society (DGS)
\nsince 2004
\nExpert for VolkswagenStiftung
\n2002-2008
\nChairman of the advisory council \u201cWissenschaft und Zeitgeschehen\u201d, Goethe-Institute
\nsince 2002
\nUniversity of Haifa: Member of the Board Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES); Hebrew University Jerusalem: Member of the Board Center for German Studies
\nsince 2000
\nCooperation, Hamburger Institute for Social Sciences
\nsince 2000
\nCooperation, Academy for Social Sciences, Beijing
\nsince 1996
\nExpert for German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
\n1996-2010
\nCooperation, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Saitama University, Japan
\nsince 1994
\nCooperation, Justizakademie NRW Recklinghausen and Justizakademie Trier
\nsince 1986
\nExpert for German Research Foundation (DFG)<\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theory in sociology, everyday culture, sociology of knowledge, culture, media and religion, methodology and methods of hermeneutics<\/p>\n

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Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soeffner, Hans-Georg (1989): Auslegung des Alltags – Der Alltag der Auslegung. Zur wissenssoziologischen Konzeption einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Hermeneutik. Frankfurt\/M.: Suhrkamp.<\/p>\n

Soeffner, Hans-Georg (1992): Die Ordnung der Rituale – Die Auslegung des Alltags II. Frankfurt\/M.: Suhrkamp.<\/p>\n

Soeffner, Hans-Georg (2000): Gesellschaft ohne Baldachin. \u00dcber die Labilit\u00e4t von Ordnungskonstruktionen. Frankfurt\/M.: Velbr\u00fcck Wissenschaft.<\/p>\n

Soeffner, Hans-Georg (2010): Symbolische Formung. Eine Soziologie des Symbols und des Rituals. Frankfurt\/M.: Velbr\u00fcck Wissenschaft.<\/p>\n

Soeffner, Hans-Georg (2019): Bedrohliche Attraktivit\u00e4t. Charisma der Gewalt. In: Ecarius, Jutta; Bilstein, Johannes (eds.): Gewalt \u2013 Vernunft \u2013 Angst. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag (coming soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3032,"template":"","person_category":[278,277],"class_list":["post-1759","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-vorstand","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}