Prof. emer. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Renate Mayntz

Prof. emer. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Renate Mayntz

Life and Work

Vita

Born in Berlin 1929

since 2019

Honorary Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

2011

Verdienstorden des Landes NRW: Order of Merit of North-Rhine Westphalia

2010

Innovationspreis des Landes NRW: Award of the Ministery of Innovation, Science and Research of North-Rhine Westphalia for a researcher's lifework

2010

25 Years Membership in the Max Planck Society

2008

Ernst Hellmut Vits-Preis: Award of the Society for the Advancement of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster (Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster e.V.)

2006

DGS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie) Lifetime Award for outstanding scientific performance

2004

Bielefeld Science Award, jointly received with Fritz W. Scharpf

2002

Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2002

Honorary Doctorate of the European University Institute in Florence

1999

Prize of the German Schader Foundation

1997

Retirement

1985

Honorary Professorship, University of Cologne

1985

Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

1979

Honorary Doctorate, University of Paris X – Nanterre

1977

Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala

1974–1980

Member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1973–1985

Full Professor (Sociology), University of Cologne

1971–1973

Full Professor (Sociology of Organisation), Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (School of Public Administration), Speyer

1970–1973

Member of the Governmental Commission for the Reform of Public Administration (Studienkommision für die Reform des öffentlichen Dienstrechts)

1968

Theodor Heuss Chair, New School for Social Research, New York

1966–1970

Member of the German Council for Educational Reform

1965

Visiting Professor at FLASCO (Facultad Latino-americana de Ciencias Sociales), Santiago de Chile

1965–1971

Full Professor (Sociology) at the Free University of Berlin

1964

Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh

1960–1965

Lecturer (Privatdozent, Diätendozentur), Free University of Berlin

1959–1960

Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York

1958–1959

Fellowship of the Rockefeller Foundation

1957

Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin

1953–1957

UNESCO Institute of Social Research, Cologne

1953

Doctorate in sociology (Dr. phil.), Free University of Berlin

1950

B.A., Wellesley College (USA)

1947

Graduation (Abitur) in Berlin


The volume of interviews Ordnung und Fragilität des Sozialen: Renate Mayntz im Gespräch, edited by Ariane Leendertz and Uwe Schimank (Campus 2019), contains memoirs and the stages of my academic career.
 
“When I look back over my road to sociology and compare it with the professional careers of young colleagues who are now becoming professors, then on the one hand it seems more improbable, but at the same time also determined to a greater extent by an inner necessity. I have often sensed something similar among social scientists of my age … a kind of inner kinship that goes beyond all the differences between the ‘schools‘ to which we are assigned.” (Mayntz 1996)


Interviews

Ordnung und Fragilität des Sozialen
Soziopolis, 29.04.2019 | Ariane Leendertz, Uwe Schimank
 
"Ich wollte unbedingt in die Forschung"
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 26.04.2019 | Rüdiger Heimlich


Portrait

Kaube, Jürgen
Renate Mayntz - Verstehen und erklären. In: Gesellschaftsforschung 3/2009. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2009, 21-24.


Biographical and autobiographical essays

Bude, Heinz
Die Soziologen der Bundesrepublik. Merkur 46(520), 1992.

Mayntz, Renate
Mein Weg zur Soziologie: Rekonstruktion eines kontingenten Karrierepfades. In: Christian Fleck (ed.), Wege zur Soziologie nach 1945: Autobiographische Notizen. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1996, 225–235.
Mayntz, Renate
Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Karriere im Fächerspagat. In: Karl Martin Bolte, Friedhelm Neidhardt (eds.), Soziologie als Beruf: Erinnerungen westdeutscher Hochschulprofessoren der Nachkriegsgeneration. Soziale Welt, Sonderband 11. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1998, 285–293.
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