Helmut Staubmann
Helmut Staubmann is an Austrian sociologist. He is professor for social theory and cultural sociology at the University of Innsbruck and Dean of the School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Innsbruck. From 2013 to 2015, he served as President of the Austrian Sociological Association.
Helmut Staubmann has authored and edited several books on action theory in the Parsonian tradition. Together with Victor M. Lidz he is editor of the book series Studies in the Theory of Action.
His cultural research focuses on questions of aesthetics and society. He edited and translated Georg Simmel’s book on Rembrandt. His edited volume The Rolling Stones. Sociological Perspectives is an important contribution to the sociology of music and popular culture.
Biography
Helmut Staubmann studied sociology at the University of Vienna and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. In 1991/92 he was Visiting Scholar at UCLA and the University of Maryland, College Park with an Erwin Schroedinger Grant from the . From 1994 to 1997 he was APART-fellow at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. During the academic year 2012/13 he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.He held guest professor positions at Charles University Prague, Free University Bolzano, Kobe University, University of Tennessee/Knoxville and the Austrian universities in Linz, Graz and
Awards
George-Sarton-Medal, University of Ghent 2015Cardinal-Innitzer-Award 1995
Adam-Smith-Bicentenary-Award, School of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Innsbruck 1990
Selected publications
: Rationality in the Social Sciences: The Schumpeter-Parsons Seminar 1939-40 and Current Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2018.: Talcott Parsons and Winston White: Values of American Society. Manuscripts from the American Society Project I. With an Introduction by Victor Lidz and Helmut Staubmann. Vienna: LIT 2016.
The Rolling Stones – Sociological Perspectives. Lanham: Lexington Books 2013
: Talcott Parsons: Actor, Situation and Normative Pattern. An Essay in the Theory of Social Action. Vienna: LIT 2010
: Talcott Parsons. Springer 2010
Action Theory: Methodological Studies. Vienna: LIT 2006
: Georg Simmel: Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art. New York: Routledge 2005
Links
https://www.helmut-staubmann.infohttps://www.uibk.ac.at/soziologie/team/index.html.en