Jörg Blasius (born 1957) is a German sociologist, and Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. He became known through his earlier work on correspondence analysis in the social sciences.Borg, Ingwer, and Patrick JF Groenen. ''Modern multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 2005.

Life and work

Born in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

Blasius obtained his degree in sociology. From 1986 to 2001 he was researcher at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

at the city's Central Archive for Empirical Social Research. In 2001 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the

. His research interests include the methods of empirical social research, the statistics used (in particular correspondence analysis), the

urban sociology Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, environmental processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doin ...

, lifestyles, media research,

environmental sociology Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment. The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by whic ...

and

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

Selected publications

* Greenacre, Michael J., and Jörg Blasius, eds. ''Correspondence analysis in the social sciences: Recent developments and applications.'' London: Academic Press, 1994. * Blasius, Jörg, and Michael Greenacre. ''Visualization of categorical data.'' Academic Press, 1998. * Friedrichs, Jürgen, and Jörg Blasius. ''Leben in benachteiligten Wohngebieten.'' Opladen: Leske+ Budrich, 2000. * Blasius, Jörg. ''Korrespondenzanalyse.'' Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001. * Cor van Dijkum, J. Blasius, H. Kleijer, B. van Hilten (Eds.), ''Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology.'' SISWO, Amsterdam, 2004. * Blasius, Jörg, and Victor Thiessen. ''Assessing the quality of survey data.'' Sage, 2012. * Jorg Blasius and Michael Greenacre, ''Visualization and Verbalization of Data.'' CRC Press, 2014.

References

External links

Personal page at the University of Bonn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blasius, Jorg 1957 births Living people German sociologists Academic staff of the University of Cologne Academic staff of the University of Bonn Writers from Hamburg