Institute of Sociology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Jakob-Welder-Weg 12
Georg-Forster-Building
Room 03-455
55128 Mainz
Tel: +49 6131 39-20377
Fax: +49 6131 39-23728
E-Mail: hirschau@uni-mainz.de
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Research Interests
Theory of Practice, Qualitative Methods and Sociology of Knowledge, the Body and Gender Difference
Academic Background
Stefan Hirschauer has been Professor for Sociological Theory and Gender Studies at Mainz University since 2006. Before that, he was Professor for Sociology and Gender Studies at Munich University, LMU. He was Visiting Scholar at the Department for Science Studies of Cornell University und Guest Professor at the Institute for Sociology at Vienna University and at Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation in Paris. Stefan Hirschauer was Heisenberg-fellow of DFG and assistant Professor at the faculty for Sociology at Bielefeld Unviersity. 1998 he received his Habilitation, 1991 his Ph.D. qualification in Bielefeld, where he in 1985 also received his Diploma in Sociology. 1991 he gained the Mullins-Award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Between 1990–1999 Stefan Hirschauer was editor of German Jounral for Sociology (Zeitschrift für Soziologie).
Publications (Top 5)
- 2021
- Menschen unterscheiden. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Humandifferenzierung. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50: 155 – 174.
- 2017
- (Hrsg.) Un/doing Differences. Praktiken der Humandifferenzierung. Velbrück
- 2017
- Gender (In)Difference in Gender (Un)Equal Couples. Intimate Dyads Between Gender Nostalgia and Post Genderism. Human Studies 40: 309 – 330
- 2010
- Editorial Judgments. A Praxeology of ‘Voting’ in Peer Review. In: Social Studies of Science 40. S. 71-103.
- 2006
- Putting Things into Words. Ethnographic Writing and the Silence of the Social. In: Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 29. S. 413-441.