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Historischer Kontext
• Elected Chair, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, 1979-80
• Elected Chair, Sociology of Education Section of the Americal Sociological Association, 1982-83
• Elected Member, Sociological Research Association
• Theory Prize, awarded by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, 1982, for
• “Micro-foundations of Macro-sociology,” American Journal of Sociology 1981.
• Elected Member of Council, American Sociological Association, 1987-90.
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989.
• Citation *reads: “For work on the theory of social conflict, and for research on education and
stratification, and on the sociology of science.” Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in
Social Science, Uppsala, Fall 1989.
• Paul Hanly Furfey Lecturer, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1991.
• Bruce C. Mayhew Memorial Lecturer, University of South Carolina, 1992.
• President, Pacific Sociological Association, 1992-3.
• Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, 1993.
• Taft Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1994.
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Amsterdam School for Social Research, June 1996.
• Distinguished Paper Award, Sociology of Religion Section, American Sociological Association,
1998, for “An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of Self-Transforming
Growth in Japan,” American Sociological Review 1997.
• Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association, 1999, for The
Sociology of Philosophies
• Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of
Sociology and Anthropology, 1999, for The Sociology of Philosophies
• Fritz Nova Memorial Lecturer, Villanova University, April 2000.
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2000).
• Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, 2000-2001
• Vincent Woo Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Nov. 2001.
• Ludwik Fleck Prize, for best recent book, Society for Social Studies of Science, 2002, awarded for
The Sociology of Philosophies.
Romane:
• 1979. The Case of the Philosophers’ Ring. New York: Crown Publishers; British edition, London:
Harvester Press, 1980; Spanish edition, Madrid: Valdemar Ediciones, 1989
• . .... er hat nach eigenen Angaben vor irgendwann nochmal einen Roman schreiben ...sometimes...
31.2. Historischer Kontext
Er erlebte als kleines Kind Europa am Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs hautnah. Berlin war noch voll
von Bombenkratern und toten Körpern. Er erlebte auch Moskau am Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges
während der Koreakrieg ausbrach. Er wuchs also in einer Welt voller Gewalt und Machtkämpfe auf
und vermutete selber, dass dies in ihm das Interesse an Max Weber 2 entfachte und da besonders der
Teil dem in jener Zeit kaum jemand Aufmerksamkeit schenkte - nämlich die Texte von Weber die
Machtpolitik behandeln. Er geht davon aus dass auch sein geopolitisches Interesse darin begründet
liegt.
2 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Weber
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