Lars Clausen


Lars Michael Clausen was a German sociologist and professor at the University of Kiel.

Life and work

During World War II, the family lived on the Darß. 1944 his father Jürgen Clausen, a movie producer, was killed in action; his mother Rosemarie Clausen, a famous photographer, fled with her three children 1945 to Hamburg, where Lars Clausen attended the Christianeum. 1955, he took up Business, Economics, Sociology, and History at the universities of Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. 1960, he took his first degree in business in Hamburg. He got both his doctorate and post-doctoral degree at the University of Münster in sociology, having done field work in Zambian industries, 1964—65. After academic teaching in Münster, Bielefeld, and The Hague, he was called 1970 to the chair of Sociology at Kiel University. Clausen inspired generations of students with his ingenuity and his ability to illustrate sociological theories with practical examples. He was considered by many to be one of the last polymaths, and his lectures had cult status among students.
He specialized in the sociology of culture, of labor, and of disaster, and is chief editor of the Complete Works of Ferdinand Tönnies.
1993 to 1994, Clausen was Chairman of the German Society for Sociology. 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. From 1978, he was President of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society.

Awards

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Monographs and papers

  • 1964: Elemente einer Soziologie der Wirtschaftswerbung, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag
  • 1966: On attitudes towards industrial conflict in Zambian industry, African Social Research,, p. 260-268
  • 1968:Industrialisierung in Schwarzafrika, Bielefeld
  • 1971: "Industrial Man. The Zambian case of radical social change", in: Heide Simonis/Udo E. Simonis, Socioeconomic development in dual economies, Munich, p. 97–124
  • 1976: Jugend soziologie, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
  • 1978: Tausch, Munich: Kösel
  • 1978: Siedlungssoziologie, Munich: Kösel
  • 1979: "The social dimension of the ergonomic approach", in: J. H. van Loon et al., Ergonomics in tropical agriculture and forestry, Wageningen, p. 58–64
  • 1985: Zu allem fähig. Versuch einer Sozio-Biographie zum Verständnis des Dichters Leopold Schefer, 2 vols., Frankfurt on Main: Bangert & Metzler
  • 1988: Produktive Arbeit, 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: Entsetzliche soziale Prozesse, Münster: LIT

    Selected editions

  • 1975: with Bettina Clausen) Spektrum der Literatur, Gütersloh: Lexikothek, 15 eds. until 1990
  • 1981: Ankunft bei Tönnies, Kiel: Mühlau
  • 1985: Tönnies heute, Kiel: Mühlau
  • 1990: Renaissance der Gemeinschaft? Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
  • 1990: Hundert Jahre "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft", Opladen: Leske + Budrich
  • 1995: Gesellschaften im Umbruch, Frankfurt on Main/New York: Campus
  • 1998–– Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe, 24 vols., Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
  • *1998: Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe 22: 1932–1936, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter
  • 2005:, Öffentliche Meinung zwischen neuer Wissenschaft und neuer Religion, Munich/Vienna: Profil
  • 2006:, Neuordnung der Sozialen Leistungen, Norderstedt