Rodrigo Jokisch

Rodrigo Jokisch (* 1946 in Neumünster) is a German sociologist.

Life

His parents emigrated in the year of his birth to El Salvador (Central America). He grew up there until his sixteenth year. After the Central American High School, he returned to Germany and attended the State boarding school Schloss Plön. There he took after the German Abitur and then started at the Ruhr- University Bochum with the study of social sciences. He finished his sociology degree in 1974 at the Free University of Berlin. In 1977 he began to philosophy, philosophy of science, science and technology history the Technical University of Berlin to work as a research assistant in the Department. In 1981, he joined the Department of Sociology at the same university. Until 1987 he was a research assistant there. In 1993 he became a PhD from the Technical University of Berlin in sociology and 1999 was habilitated there. Since 1999 Jokisch is Professor of " Theory and History of Society" at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. Since 2006 he represents a professor of sociology at the University of Technology Darmstadt ( FH).

Work

In his work, Jokisch where both the observation and the discourse aspect strives to provide a consistent theory of society, are included. Four areas, "systems" or " practices " constitute his social theory: Sociality, Individuality, affectivity and corporeality. In this communication, decision and action are considered as active forms of society, while the structure, function and social evolution are to be regarded as passive forms. The active forms themselves produce both intended and unintended consequences. Institutions are usually the result nichtbeabsichtigter consequences of communication, decision and action.

Writings (selection )

• Determinants of technological development. Structural models in the historiography of the industrialization in Europe ( co-author), Berlin: TUB, 1980.
• El Salvador. Struggles for freedom in Central America. Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1981.
• To be a man. Identity crisis and finding a role of the man in this day and age, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1982.
• Technology Sociology, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1982.
• Overtures ( men and women), Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1984.
• Logic of distinctions. To Proto logic of a theory of society (1993 ), West German Publisher: Opladen ² 1996.
• Metodología de las Distinciones. Juan Pablo's: UNAM, 2002.