Martina Löw

Martina Löw ( born January 9, 1965 in Würzburg ) is a German sociologist.

Life

Martina Löw was " take space. Single person's end between work, social relationships and the culture of self- women " in 1993 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with Marianne Rodensteinstrasse with the work of his doctorate. The habilitation was made in 2000 in the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. For her work to date, in particular for their habilitation thesis on the sociology of space, she received the Christian Wolff Prize. From January 2002 to July 2013 she was a professor of sociology at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the focal points geospatial analysis of society, urban and regional sociology and women's and gender studies, since it is at the TU Berlin professor of architecture and planning sociology. Previously, she was a lecturer and senior scientific assistant employed at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, after she had been at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt / M as well as a guest or temporary professor at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Darmstadt active.

From 2011 to March 2013 she was chairman of the German Society for Sociology. Her successor is Stephan Lessenich.

Work

In 2001, Martina Löw published a sociology of space, which sees the emergence of space as a social phenomenon, which depends on social developments. Loew sees the space as a relational arrangement of social goods and animals, which is produced by the synthesis and the placement of these elements. Such a procedural concept of space contrasts the previously dominant in sociology believes that conceives space as a rigid background of social processes. Building on this work Loew empirically the question of how spatial constructions are changed in and through electronic networks. Other research focuses on "Space, power and social differentiation " as well as ethnographic studies city.

In the field of urban research has " Public Safety " and " Theatre and the City" carried out the thematic field Loew various sub-studies. An empirical study of the effect of structure of space and gender on the example of prostitution in Frankfurt aM complements the topic. Her latest research approaches include analyzing urban inherent logic. The inherent logic of the city refers to a complex ensemble of knowledge stocks and expressions that are inherently related, based on rule-governed, routinized and resources stabilized forms of action and compact cities to sense provinces.

As of summer 2008, Löw was Coordinator of the Hessian Ministry of Economics and Art in the provincial campaign for the development of scientific and economic excellence ( LOEWE ) funded center of gravity " Intrinsic Logic of Cities ", a collaborative project of the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Darmstadt. " Internal logic " stands as a working concept for each specific and "typical" properties as well as tacitly effective processes shaping the sense of a city. The aim is to understand the basic structures of the cities as well as to understand relations and similarities between the cities. The central methodological tool is the comparison of cities.

The inherent logic approach thus differs significantly from other perspectives within the urban research which, while doing research in the city, however, consider the city as such as a given, not to be examined size. The research approach to the intrinsic logic of cities, however, makes the city itself on the subject matter.

Selected writings

• Löw, Martina; Ruhne, Renate: prostitution. Methods of preparation of another world. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2011 Edition ISBN 9783518126325.
• Löw, Martina; Berking, Helmuth: The Intrinsic Logic of Cities. New directions for urban research. Series "Interdisciplinary Urban Research ", Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008 ISBN 978-3-593-38725-3.
• Löw, Martina: sociology of the cities. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008 ISBN 3518585037.
• Löw, Martina; Steets, Silke; Stoetzer, Sergei: Introduction to Urban and Regional Sociology. Opladen: Barbara Budrich. , 2008. ISBN 3825283488
• Löw, Martina: Introduction to the sociology of education. Opladen: Leske and Budrich / UTB for science., 2006. ISBN 3825282430
• Löw, Martina: sociology of space. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch science., 2001. ISBN 3518291068
• Löw, Martina: take room. Students living between work, social relationships and the culture of self women. Bielefeld: Small 1993.