Uta Gerhardt

Uta Gerhardt ( born June 11, 1938 in Zella-Mehlis/Thüringen ) is a German sociologist. She is professor emerita at the University of Heidelberg.

Career

Uta Gerhardt studied sociology, philosophy and history in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1969 in Konstanz. Your habilitation thesis " Role Analysis as a critical sociology " formed by the treatment of the theme of the social role an important contribution to discussion of the role of 1960s.

In Constance, she began her university teaching as Academic Counsellor. In the summer semester 1973, she took over a Visiting Professor for Friedrich Tenbruck at the University of Tübingen. After several years of research in the UK Uta Gerhardt in 1979, professor of medical sociology at the Faculty of Medicine, Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen. In the general sociology are their studies Talcott Parsons of importance in medicine, sociology and life course research their work on patients' careers of the chronically ill and for empirical social research their methodological work on the type of education, which makes Max Weber's concept of the ideal type for qualitative social research available. After a visiting professorship in the U.S. at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland In 1993 she became a professor of sociology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Since 2003 she is professor emeritus.

Uta Gerhardt worked from 1980 to 1984 member of the board of the German Society for Sociology and 1980-1983 First President of the German Society for Medical Sociology.

Writings (selection )

• Role analysis as a critical sociology. In 1971.
• Patient careers. In 1985.
• Society and health. In 1991.
• Heart and action rationality. In 1999.
• Ideal type. At the methodological foundation of modern sociology., 2001.
• Sociology of the zero hour. , 2005.