Lars Michael Clausen (8 April 1935,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

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) was a German sociologist and professor at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

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

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. 1955, he took up Business, Economics, Sociology, and History at the universities of Berlin (the

Free University A free university is an organization offering uncredited, public classes without restrictions to who can teach or learn. They differ in structure. In 1980 in the United States, about half were associated with a traditional university, about a ...

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, and

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. 1960, he took his first degree in business in

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(''Dipl.-Kfm.''). He got both his doctorate (''Dr.sc.pol.'') and post-doctoral degree (''Habilitation'') at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

(1964 resp. 1968) in sociology, having done field work in

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...

n industries, 1964—65. After academic teaching in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

, and The Hague, he was called 1970 to the chair of Sociology at

Kiel University Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. He specialized in the

sociology of culture The sociology of culture, and the related cultural sociology, concerns the systematic analysis of culture, usually understood as the ensemble of symbolic codes used by a member of a society, as it is manifested in the society. For Georg Simmel, ...

, of labor, and of

disaster A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources ...

, and is chief editor of the Complete Works of

Ferdinand Tönnies Ferdinand Tönnies (; 26 July 1855 – 9 April 1936) was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher. He was a significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social gro ...

. 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 St Paul's Church (german: Paulskirche) is a former Protestant church in Frankfurt, Germany, used as a national assembly hall. Its important political symbolism dates back to 1848 when the Frankfurt Parliament convened there, the first publicl ...

* 1998:

Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

1. Klasse ross of Merit 1. Class* 1982:

* 1955: Scheffelpreis

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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 Heide Simonis (; born 4 July 1943 in Bonn as Heide Steinhardt) is a German Author and Politician. She is a member of the SPD. From 1993 to 2005 she served as the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first woman to serve as head ...

/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 Leopold Schefer (30 July 1784 in Muskau – 13 February 1862 in Muskau), German poet, novelist, and composer, was born in a small town in Upper Lusatia (then under Saxon rule), the only child of a poor country doctor. Biography Leopold Schefer wa ...

'', 2 vols., Frankfurt on Main: Bangert & Metzler *1988: ''Produktive

Arbeit Arbeit is a word of the German language which means "work" or "labour". 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 ''Gemeinschaft'' () and ''Gesellschaft'' (), generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social relationships into two types. The Gesellschaft ...

?'' 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

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