Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Renate Mayntz
Emeritus Director and Founding Director
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-206
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-206
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Personal homepage
Research Interests
Theories of society/social systems; political institutions, policy development and implementation; development of science and of technology, relationship between science and politics; transnational structures and "global governance"Research Projects
Selected Publications
Mayntz, Renate. 2018. Sovereign Nations and the Governance of International Finance. In: Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital, edited by Jocelyn Pixley and Helena Flam, 38-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Mayntz, Renate. 2017. "Handeln und Struktur, Akteur und System: Die kausale Rekonstruktion von sozialen Makrophänomenen am Beispiel der Finanzkrise." Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 1/2017: 5-26.
Mayntz, Renate. 2015. Negotiated Reform: The Multilevel Governance of Financial Regulation. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.
Mayntz, Renate. 2014. "Die Finanzmarktkrise im Licht einer Theorie funktioneller Differenzierung." Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 66 (1): 1-19.
Mayntz, Renate. 2012. Crisis and Control: Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.
Mayntz, Renate. 2004. "Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (2): 237-59.
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Vita
| since 1997 | Research on several topics including global structures and macro-social phenomena at the MPI for the Study of Societies |
| 1997 | Retirement |
| 1985 | Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne |
| 1973-1985 | Full Professor of Sociology, University of Cologne |
| 1971-1973 | Full Professor of the Sociology of Organization, School of Public Administration, Speyer |
| 1965-1971 | Full Professor of Sociology, Free University of Berlin |
| 1960-1965 | Lecturer, Free University of Berlin |
| 1958-1959 | Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1957 | Postdoctoral lectureship status (habilitation), Free University of Berlin |
| 1953-1957 | UNESCO Institute of Social Research, Cologne |
| 1953 | Doctorate in sociology, Free University of Berlin |
| 1950 | BA, Wellesley College (USA) |
Awards and Honors (Selected)
2019: Honorary Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)2011: Verdienstorden des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
2010: Innovation Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for her life’s work
2008: Ernst Hellmut Vits Award from the Society for the Advancement of the University of Münster
2006: Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding scholarly performance from the German Sociological Association
2002: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999: Schader Prize, awarded by the Schader Foundation in Darmstadt
1977, 1979, 2002: Honorary Doctorates from the University of Uppsala, the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the European University Institute in Florence
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences