Christoph Deutschmann

German Christoph (b. November 15, 1946 in Stuttgart ) is a German sociologist.

German man studied sociology with a minor in economics and law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he made his diploma in 1973. In the same year his book was published, the left Keynesianimus, which also appeared in Danish. In 1975 he was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt with the work planned economy as an ideology. To legitimize function of the "Political Economy of Socialism " doctorate in the CMEA countries. From 1976 to 1984 he was a research associate of the Frankfurter Institute for Social Research. In 1987 he qualified as a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Since 1989 he is professor of social and behavioral science at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Tübingen. He belongs to the team of the Research Institute for Work, Technology and Culture ( FATK ).

In the field of economic sociology German man researched the way society deals with money, which he called " our secret religion." His concept of religion is oriented to the social function to the foundation of collective identity and social cohesion. Money is not only a medium of exchange, as capital it vermittele nothing but themselves and will end in itself. The accumulation of wealth in the middle and upper classes would lead to a " Buddenbrooks effect" (after Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks ): The dwindling opportunities in an affluent society " ever more and harder -working debtors " to find, seduce at a insistence on a high return on increasingly risky speculation, as they have led to the current financial crisis. Thoughts of John Maynard Keynes Picking up, he advises to overcome the constraint to economic growth.

Publications

  • The left Keynesianism. Athenaeum Verlag, Frankfurt 1973, ISBN 3-7610-5871-3
  • Gisela Dybowski - Johannson: Economic and social determinants of working time policy. On the history of the struggle for the reduction of working time. In: Reports of the Institute for Labour Market and Occupational Research. Vol 12, 1979, No. 3, pp. 313-326 (PDF, 511 KB)
  • Planned economy as an ideology. To legitimize function of the "Political Economy of Socialism " in the CMEA countries. Dissertation (1975 ), published in 1977
  • With Ulrich Billerbeck, Rainer Erd, Rudi Schmiede & Edwin Schudlich: reorientation of collective bargaining? Changes in the ratio of wage and collective bargaining policy in the seventies. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1982, ISBN 3-593-33077-6
  • Rudi Schmiede: Wage developments in the Federal Republic from 1960 to 1978. Economic and social determinants. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1983, ISBN 3-593-33078-4
  • The path to the normal working day. The development of working hours in German industry until 1918. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1985, ISBN 3-593-33438-0
  • Working in Japan. Organisational and cultural aspects of the organization " Round Conversion " of labor power. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 1987, ISBN 3-593-33830-0
  • The Japanese working hours in socio - cultural point of view. In: Japan studies. Volume 2/ 1990. Yearbook of the German Institute for Japanese Studies. Iudicium -Verlag, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3891293658, pp. 89-101 (PDF, 846 KB)
  • With Michael Faust, Peter Jauch & Karin Brno corner: decentralization of companies. Bureaucracy and hierarchy degradation and the role of operational labor policy. Hampp, München / Mering 1994, ISBN 3-87988-090-5; 3 extended edition ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-87988-383-1
  • The work of society in crisis? Paradoxes of labor policy debates of the eighties. In: HG Zilian and Jörg Flecker (Ed.): pathologies and paradoxes of the world of work. Forum Social Research, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901339-02-7, pp. 32-48 (PDF)
  • The promise of absolute wealth. For the religious nature of capitalism. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36253-8; 2nd revised edition ibid. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36883-8 Review by Reinhard Jellen. In: contradiction. No. 36, 2001, pp. 67-70 ( PDF; 154 KB)
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