Heinz-Herbert Noll

Heinz -Herbert Noll ( born January 1, 1949 in Döttesfeld ) is a German sociologist

  • 5.1 books (author, co-author, editor )
  • 5.2 journal articles, articles in edited works
  • 5.3 Working papers, reports, hectograph
  • 5.4 magazine editor

Training

Noll studied sociology, economics, social policy and statistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. 1981 saw the promotion at Wolfgang Zapf for PhD at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on " employment opportunities and working conditions: A Social Report for the Federal Republic from 1950 to 1980 " (1982).

Profession

Research

From 1981 to 1987 Noll research associate in the SPES project and collaborative research center was 3 " Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy" ( SFB3 ), then project managers and project leaders in CRC 3 During this time, he specialized in the field of sociology of the labor market and wrote in this framework did his thesis.

In 1987 he was appointed head of the newly created " Department of Social Indicators " by ZUMA (now CSA). The department is the permanent institutionalization of welfare research and social reporting in Germany as a research infrastructure facility. Various activities developed in the course of time. These include:

  • The continuation of the SPES Social Indicators tableaux for Germany
  • The organization of seminars and conferences on social indicators
  • His participation in the "Data Report"
  • The publication of a newsletter or " information service social indicators "
  • Scientific advice and expert opinions
  • International cooperation, such as in the " International Society for Quality of Life Studies" ( ISQLS )
  • Implementation of research projects such as a project to develop a system of European social indicators

Teaching

Noll taught at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, the University of Tartu, the University of Fribourg, the Università degli Studi di Firenze and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l' Administration Economique in Paris. In addition, he was invited to guest visits to various foreign institutes and universities.

Honorary Appointments

Noll was appointed to several scientific and policy advisory bodies, such as as a spokesman of the "Section Social Indicators " in the German Sociological Association (DGS ) or as President of the ISA Research Committee 55 " Social Indicators ". Most recently he was president until 2012 the " International Society for Quality of Life Studies" ( ISQLS ).

Noll acted beyond as an advisor in various research projects and was a member of the editorial boards of journals such as Social Indicators Research, Current Sociology and Applied Research in Quality of Life.

Scientific Importance

Noll's sociological significance is to have institutionalized the work of his teacher Wolfgang Zapf and his colleagues in SPES and CRC 3 and thus Germany secured a front rank position in the scale of social indicators research in international comparison. Germany thus became a leading player in this applied sociological sub-discipline. Noll has also helped to make the concept of social indicators at European level known and set up at Eurostat and the European Commission to a permanent job.

Publications

Books (author, co-author, editor )

  • (1982 ), employment opportunities and working conditions: A Social Report for the Federal Republic from 1950 to 1980. Frankfurt and New York: Campus. ( University of Mannheim, Dissertation, 1981). (Series Sonderforschungsbereich 3 Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy, Vol 9).
  • (together with Wolfgang Glatzer, co-author ) (ed. ) ( 1992), living conditions in Germany: inequality and approximation. Frankfurt and New York: Campus. ( Social Indicators, vol 16).
  • (1993 ) (ed. ), system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany: time series from 1950 to 1991; Table tape. Mannheim: Centre for Survey Research and Analysis, Department of Social Indicators. ( A ZUMA publication).
  • (together with Roland Habich ) ( 1994), Social Indicators and Social Reporting: international experience and current state of research; Expertise. Bern: Federal Office of Statistics. ( Federal Statistical Office, Statistics of Switzerland, 16: culture, living conditions, sports).
  • (Co-author and eds.) ( 1997), Social Reporting in Germany: Concepts, methods and results for life areas and population groups. Weinheim et al.: Juventa Verlag. ( Basic texts of sociology).
  • (together with Roland Habich, co-author ) (ed. ) (2000 ), From the coalescence of a society: analyzes of the convergence of living standards in Germany. Frankfurt and New York: Campus. ( Social Indicators, vol 21).
  • (together with Yannick Lemel, co-author ) ( eds. ) (2002 ), Changing Structures of Social Inequality: A Comparative Perspective. Montreal et al.: McGill - Queens University Press. ( Comparative Charting of Social Change ).

Journal articles, articles in edited works

  • (1990 ), quality of life in the Federal Republic of Germany: methods of measurement and selected results. In: Evangelische Akademie Baden; Ulrich Duchrow (ed.), minutes of a consultation of the Evangelical Academy Baden 29-30. September 1989 in August - winnig house, Wilhelm Field. Karlsruhe, pp. 26-33.
  • (1997), Social Reporting: Objectives, functions, and forms. In trans. (Eds.), Social Reporting in Germany: Concepts, methods and results for spheres of life and population groups. Weinheim et al.: Juventa Verlag, pp. 7-16. ( Basic texts of sociology).
  • (1999 ) The perspective of social reporting. In: Peter Flora (ed.), social reporting and state observation: individual welfare and welfare state institutions in the mirror of empirical analyzes. Frankfurt and New York: Campus, pp. 13-28. ( Social Indicators, vol 20).
  • (2002), Global welfare measures as instruments for measuring welfare and social reporting: functions, approaches and problems. In: Wolfgang Glatzer (ed.), Social change and social monitoring. [ Festschrift for Wolfgang Zapf ]. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, pp. 317-35.
  • (2003), Social indicators research and social reporting: objectives, results and current developments. In: Barbara Orth, Thomas Schwietring et al. (Ed.), Sociological Research: Status and Prospects: A Handbook. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, pp. 449-66.

Working papers, reports, hectograph

  • Noll has written numerous articles for the " information service social indicators " (Mannheim: FIS), which are not listed here individually. See the entries under magazine editor, and Web links.
  • (ca. 1977), Social Indicators of Employment: Data for goal -oriented policy. Frankfurt am Main. ( SPES, No. 74).
  • (1979) criteria and mechanisms for vocational placement: an aspect of welfare production. Frankfurt: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. ( Sonderforschungsbereich 3, Working Paper No. 7).
  • (1982) Determinants of re-employment of the unemployed: a multivariate analysis of survey data. Frankfurt: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. ( Sonderforschungsbereich 3, Working Paper No. 81).
  • (1983 ), problems of the entry of young people in the context of developments on the apprenticeship market: lecture, held in the series Academic winter 1982/83 the city, the university and the evening Academy Mannheim: prospects and problems of employment policy in the 80s. Frankfurt: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. ( Sonderforschungsbereich 3, Working Paper No. 100).
  • (1985 ), continuing education and professional development: empirical analysis for further training behavior of workers in the Federal Republic. Frankfurt: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. ( Sonderforschungsbereich 3, Working Paper No. 177).
  • (together with Walter Müller ) (2003 ), Labour and Social Structure. Mannheim: Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. ( MZES Working Papers, Department I, No. 13).
  • (1999), New Structures of Inequality: Some Trends of Social Change in Modernized Societies. Berlin: WZB. (Publications of the Department of Social Structure and Social Reporting of the research social change, institutions and processes of mediation in the Research Centre for Social Research, No 99/ 405).
  • (1999), concepts of welfare development: quality of life and " new " welfare concepts. Mannheim: Zuma. ( EuReporting Working Paper, No. 3). Under the same title also published as a working paper of the WZB, Berlin 2000 (Publication series of the cross-sectional group work and ecology of the Science Centre Berlin for Social Research, No. 00/ 505).
  • (together with Regina Berger -Schmitt ) (2000 ), Conceptual Framework and Structure of a European System of Social Indicators. Mannheim: Zuma. ( EuReporting Working Paper, No. 9).

Magazine editor

  • Information service social indicators. Mannheim: CSA, ISSN 0935 - 218X.
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