Short CV

Scientific short biography

• Study of History, Romance studies, Philosophy, later on also Sociology at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg i. Br., Pau (France) and Basel

• 1961 - 1962 assistant allemand and lector at secondary schools (Gymnasien) and at the University of Pau (France)

• state examination for a secondary school teaching position in the subjects History and French (1967) as well as Social Sciences (1969) at the University of Kiel

• 1968 - 1975 graduate assistant at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Basel and advisor for the PROGNOS AG in Basel

• 1971 Dr. phil. (Sociology) at the University of Basel

• 1975 - 1981 Professor (C3) of Sociology at the University of Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg

• since 1981 professor (C4) of Sociology at the University of Siegen

• 1996 - 1997 visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)

• since 2006 member of the migration council (Rat für Migration)

Positions in scientific associations

German Sociological Association (GSA)

• 1997 – 2004 member of the council

• founder member of the section Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse (Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis),
  1992 – 2004 member of the section directorate

• member of the sections Bildung und Erziehung, (Education and Upbringing) Medien- und
  Kommunikationssoziologie (Sociology of Media and of Communication) as well as Migration und ethnische Minderheiten (Migration and Ethnic Minorities)
  

Member of the

• Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) (German Journalism and Communication Science Association)
  

• Academic Association for Pedagogical Sciences in Germany (DGfE)
  

• International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)

• Swiss Sociological Association (SGS) (1969 – 1999)

Positions as evaluator

• appraisal of single applications to the German Research Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

• appraisal of manuscripts for the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, and the Zeitschrift für Soziologie and the Soziale Welt

• since 1998 member of the jury of the Fritz-Thyssen-Award (for the best socio-scientific essays)

• subject expert for the evaluation of the Swiss universities of applied sciences (Swiss Peer Reviews 2001 and 2003)

Occupations as editor

• since 1988 editorial consultant of Politics, Groups and the Individual. International Journal of Political Psychology and Political Socialization

• since 1997 co-editor of the Siegener Beiträge zur Soziologie

Positions in self-administration and institutes of the University of Siegen

• 1983 - 1985 Vice Dean of the Faculty 1

• 1985 - 1987 Dean of the Faculty 1

• 1987 - 1989 and 1997 - 2004 member of the senate

• 1999 - 2005 member of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Forschungsinstituts für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften) (figs) (2001 -2002 executive director)