Carsten Klingemann
Carsten Klingemann (born March 29, 1950) is a German sociologist who was an associate professor at the University of Osnabrück until his retirement in 2015[1] His teaching focuses on methods of empirical social research and sociological theory. His research focuses on the history of sociology in Germany, especially during the National Socialist era. He is co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Soziologiegeschichte.[2]
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Biography
Carsten Klingemann was born in Celle. After attending elementary school in Barnstorf from 1957 to 1961 and graduating from high school in Diepholz in 1969, Klingemann first studied mathematics for two semesters at the University of Hanover. He then transferred to the University of Münster for studies in sociology, journalism and education, where he earned a master's degree in December 1975 and a doctorate in February 1979 under Sven Papcke and Arno Klönne. In 1980, he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation for his project on the history of sociology under National Socialism. He habilitated at the University of Osnabrück in 1992 with a cumulative habilitation that included over twenty of his previous publications.
Klingemann is one of the historians of sociology who have critically examined what is now regarded as the "myth" that sociology played no role under National Socialism and was virtually reestablished in Germany after 1945.[3] He argues, on the other hand, that subfields of sociology experienced an upswing under the rule of the National Socialists, and that empirical sociology, especially empirical social research, became professionalized and institutionalized. Methods of social research, he argues, were not exclusively imported from the United States after World War II; rather, the first sociology institutes in the Federal Republic drew methodologically from the knowledge of "Reich sociologists."
Klingemann's book, Sociology in the Third Reich (1996), sparked heated debates on the history of sociology, far exceeding the limits of factual discussion. According to Hans-Georg Soeffner, Klingemann is among those who have done much to "demythologize" the legend of the nonexistence of sociology in National Socialist Germany.[4]
Works
- Theorien und Funktionen des säkularen Staatsinterventionismus. Ökonomische Eingriffsmodelle und gesellschaftliche Ordnungsvorstellungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1945. Hochschulschrift (1979; dissertation)
- "Heimatsoziologie oder Ordnungsinstrument. Fachgeschichtliche Aspekte der Soziologie in Deutschland zwischen 1933 und 1945." In: M. Rainer Lepsius, ed., Soziologie in Deutschland und Österreich 1918-1945 (1981), pp. 273–307.
- Rassenmythos und Sozialwissenschaften in Deutschland. Ein verdrängtes Kapitel sozialwissenschaftlicher Wirkungsgeschichte (1987)
- Soziologie im Dritten Reich (1996)
- Soziologie und Politik. Sozialwissenschaftliches Expertenwissen im Dritten Reich und in der frühen westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit (2009)
- Soziologie im Deutschland der Weimarer Republik, des Nationalsozialismus und der Nachkriegszeit. Der schwierige Umgang mit einer politisch-ideologisch belasteten Entwicklungsphase (2020)
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- ↑ .Klingemann still teaches there in retirement.
- ↑ The Jahrbuch für Soziologiegeschichte was published for 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997/98 (Opladen: Leske und Budrich), Klingemann was always co-editor; in 2007 another Jahrbuch für Soziologiegeschichte was published with the subtitle Soziologisches Erbe: Georg Simmel - Max Weber - Soziologie und Religion - Chicagoer Schule der Soziologie (Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007), Klingemann is named as sole editor. The Jahrbuch für Soziologiegeschichte for 2020 was co-edited with Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020).
- ↑ Dyk, Silke van; Alexandra Schauer (2014). ... daß die offizielle Soziologie versagt hat«. Zur Soziologie im Nationalsozialismus, der Geschichte ihrer Aufarbeitung und der Rolle der DGS. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 86.
- ↑ Hans-Georg Soeffner in the preface (reprinted from the first edition) "Entstehung, Wirkung und Ende einer Legende." In: Dyk & Schauer (2014). ... daß die offizielle Soziologie versagt hat«. Zur Soziologie im Nationalsozialismus, der Geschichte ihrer Aufarbeitung und der Rolle der DGS. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 11.
