Prof. Dr. Herbert Kalthoff

Research Interests
Educational Sociology, Financial Sociology, Qualitative Methods

Academic Background
Herbert Kalthoff has been Professor of Knowledge and Educational Sociology as well as for Qualitative Methods at Mainz University since 2008. Before that he temporarily replaced the Professor of Sociology at PH Heidelberg. He was Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Society Research in Cologne, and Professor of Sociology at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Guest Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a research associate at Constance University and at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, where he achieved his qualification in university lecturing in the Faculty of Cultural Sociology in 2003. He received his PhD at Bielefeld University in 1995, and before that, his Diploma in Social Sciences in 1991 after studying Sociology at the EHESS (Paris) with Pierre Bourdieu, and at the Universities of Hannover and Bielefeld. He was also Research Fellow of DFG and Chairman and Director of the DGS Department of Qualitative Research Methods.

Publications (Top 5)

2014

(with Torsten Cress und Tobias Röhl, ed.:) Materialitäten. Herausforderungen für die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. München: Fink.

2011

Un/Doing Calculation. On Knowledge Practices of Risk Management. In: Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 12. P. 3-21.

2005

Practices of Calculation. Economic Representation and Risk Management. In: Theory, Culture & Society 22/2. P. 69-97.

2003

Beobachtende Differenz. Instrumente der ethnografisch-soziologischen Forschung. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 32. P. 70-90.

1996

Das Zensurenpanoptikum. Eine ethnographische Studie zur schulischen Bewertungspraxis. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 25. P. 106-124.