Helmut Schoeck
Helmut Schoeck ( born July 3, 1922 in Graz, † 2 February 1993 ) was an Austro- German sociologist and publicist.
Life
Born in Graz, Helmut Schoeck came of school age to Baden- Württemberg. There he made in 1941 at the Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg High School and studied in Munich and Tübingen medicine, philosophy and psychology. With this study, sociologist Karl Mannheim knowledge he gained his doctorate in 1948 with Eduard Spranger Dr. phil.
For fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965, he worked as a high school teacher in the United States. He was professor of philosophy in 1953 in Fairmont, West Virginia, then taught for two years at Yale University and joined as Professor of Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. During this time he brought near his host country and the German reading public, as with the book USA. Motifs and structures (1958). In addition, he transferred in 1951 under the title Sociology of Religion Sociology of Religion Joachim wax into German.
In 1965 he returned to Germany to take over at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Professor of Sociology, which he held until 1990. With the internationally acclaimed book The envy. A theory of society, which first appeared in 1966 in the publishing house Karl Alber was known Schoeck. Since the book is written in a jargon-free language, the effect ranged far beyond academic circles. The bestseller was repeatedly reprinted and translated into more than ten languages. Another standard work since 1969 to be repeatedly extended and supplemented Sociology dictionary was.
Schoeck was a sharp critic of the emerging since the 1960s left Zeitgeist, he, together with its impact in numerous books, mostly very polemical attack. Above all, political developments in pedagogy, the medicine plant, anti-capitalism or development aid were the target of his criticism, which he developed from his conservative-liberal worldview. " Schoeck is a skilled provocateur, he knows how to handle the rhetorical means ," certified him about Gertrud Hohler, in a review of his book, student manipulation in the German newspaper. Critics accused him of not acting even constructive, but to respond mainly to other models of society - he was thus a typical representative of the reaction.
Schoeck, who had also been a columnist for 20 years the world on Sunday, died on 2 February 1993 from the effects of cancer.
Writings (selection )
- Karl Mannheim knowledge sociologist, PhD thesis, 1948
- Nietzsche's philosophy of " human- all too human ". Critical representation of aphorisms world of middle period as an attempt to reorientation of the whole image, 1948
- Sociology. History of their problems. In 1952. 2nd, much revised and enlarged edition under the title The Sociology and societies. View of problems and problem solving from the beginning to the present. In 1964. Orbis Academicus Volume I / 3 Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich
- USA. Motifs and structures, 1958
- What's politically impossible? , 1959
- Scientism and Values , 1960
- Relativism and the Study of Man, 1961
- Financing Medical Care, 1962
- Psychiatry and Responsibility, 1962
- The envy. A theory of society. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1966, 2nd edition 1968 ( later title: envy and society )
- Small sociological Dictionary, 1969 ( 1971: Sociology dictionary )
- Is indecent performance? , 1971 ( extended several times )
- Caution Desk Job. Politics and the press in the Federal Republic, 1972
- Development assistance. Political Humanity, 1972
- The joy of bad conscience, 1973
- Business with the pessimism, 1975
- Students manipulation, 1976
- The right of inequality, 1979
- The doctor between policy and patient, 1983
- The twelve mistakes of this century, 1985
- Kinderverstörung. The abused childhood - transfer to another Republic, 1989