Lars Michael Clausen (8 April 1935,
Berlin
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– 20 May 2010,
Hamburg
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) was a German
sociologist and professor at the
University of Kiel
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.
Life and work
During World War II, the family lived on the
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(in Pomerania). 1944 his father Jürgen Clausen, a movie producer, was killed in action; his mother
Rosemarie Clausen
Rosemarie Clausen (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer. She worked as Theatre photography, theatre and Portrait photography, portrait photographer and received several awards fo ...
, a famous photographer, fled with her three children 1945 to Hamburg, where Lars Clausen attended the
Christianeum
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. 1955, he took up Business, Economics, Sociology, and History at the universities of Berlin (the
Free University
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),
Cologne
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, and
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. 1960, he took his first degree in business in
Hamburg
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(''Dipl.-Kfm.''). He got both his doctorate (''Dr.sc.pol.'') and post-doctoral degree (''Habilitation'') at the
University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over ...
(1964 resp. 1968) in sociology, having done field work in
Zambia
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n industries, 1964—65. After academic teaching in
Münster
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,
Bielefeld
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, and The Hague, he was called 1970 to the chair of Sociology at
Kiel University
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.
He specialized in the
sociology of culture
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, of labor, and of
disaster
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, and is chief editor of the Complete Works of
Ferdinand Tönnies
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.
1993 to 1994, Clausen was Chairman of the
German Society for Sociology The German Sociological Association (''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie'', DGS) is a professional organization of social scientists in Germany. Established in Berlin on January 3, 1909, its founding members included Rudolf Goldscheid, Ferdina ...
. He served as well as President of the German Africa Society and as Chairman of the
Schutzkommission of the German Ministry of Interior, 2003—2009. Since 1978, he was President of the
Ferdinand Tönnies Society.
Awards
* 2010: ''Prize for an outstanding scientific life's work'',
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie,
Paulskirche
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* 1998:
Bundesverdienstkreuz
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1. Klasse
ross of Merit 1. Class* 1982:
Bundesverdienstkreuz
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* 1955:
Scheffelpreis
Select bibliography
''See as well here:''
[cf. as wel]
Publikationen Lars Clausen
Monographs and papers
*1964: ''Elemente einer Soziologie der
Wirtschaftswerbung'', Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag
*1966: “On attitudes towards industrial conflict in Zambian industry, ''African Social Research'', (2), p. 260-268
*1968:''
Industrialisierung in Schwarzafrika'', Bielefeld
*1971: “Industrial Man. The Zambian case of radical social change”, in:
Heide Simonis
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/Udo E. Simonis (eds.), ''Socioeconomic development in dual economies'', Munich, p. 97–124
*1976: ''
Jugendsoziologie'', Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
*1978: ''
Tausch'', Munich: Kösel
*1978: (with Volker von Borries, Karl Simons) ''Siedlungssoziologie'', Munich: Kösel
*1979: “The social dimension of the ergonomic approach”, in: J. H. van Loon et al. (eds.), ''Ergonomics in tropical agriculture and forestry'', Wageningen, p. 58–64
*1985: (with Bettina Clausen) ''Zu allem fähig. Versuch einer Sozio-Biographie zum Verständnis des Dichters
Leopold Schefer
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Biography
Leopold Schefer wa ...
'', 2 vols., Frankfurt on Main: Bangert & Metzler
*1988: ''Produktive
Arbeit
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It is also a surname, and may refer to:
* Arnold Arbeit (1911–1974), American artist and architect
*Jochen Arbeit, German guitarist
See also
*Arbeit macht frei, a German p ...
, destruktive Arbeit'', Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
*1992: “Social differentiation and the long-term origin of disasters”; ''Natural Hazards'', VI, 2, p. 181–190
*1994: ''Krasser
sozialer Wandel'', Opladen: Leske + Budrich
*1998: “The European revival of
Tönnies”, ''C.A.U.S.A.'', Kiel, No. 26, p. 1–11
*2003: (with Elke M. Geenen, Elísio Macamo) ''
Entsetzliche soziale Prozesse'', Münster: LIT
Selected editions
*1975: with Bettina Clausen) ''Spektrum der Literatur'', Gütersloh: Lexikothek, 15 eds. until 1990
*1981: (with Franz Urban Pappi) ''Ankunft bei
Tönnies'', Kiel: Mühlau
*1985: (with Volker von Borries, Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Hans-Werner Prahl) ''Tönnies heute'', Kiel: Mühlau
*1990: (with Carsten Schlüter) ''Renaissance der
Gemeinschaft
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?'' Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
*1990: (with Carsten Schlüter) ''Hundert Jahre “
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft”'', Opladen: Leske + Budrich
*1995: ''Gesellschaften im Umbruch'', Frankfurt on Main/New York: Campus
*1998–– (chief ed.) ''Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe'', 24 vols., Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
**1998: (ed.) ''Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe 22: 1932–1936'', Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
*2005: (with Arno Bammé, Rolf Fechner), ''
Öffentliche Meinung zwischen neuer Wissenschaft und neuer Religion'', Munich/Vienna: Profil
*2006: (with Uwe Carstens et al.), ''Neuordnung der Sozialen Leistungen'', Norderstedt
Further reading
*1995: Wolf R. Dombrowsky/Ursula Pasero (eds.), ''Wissenschaft, Literatur, Katastrophen. Festschrift zum sechzigsten Geburtstag von Lars Clausen'', Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag
*2000: Günter Endruweit/Wolf R. Dombrowsky (eds.), ''Ein Soziologe und sein Umfeld'', Kiel: CAU
* Oliver Stenzel
"Ein fulminantes Feuerwerk zum Finale" In:
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