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Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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German academic
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Place of birth
Freiburg im Breisgau
Age
78 years
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Biography
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (born 14 October 1946 in Freiburg), is a German sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher. She holds a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
After studying sociology, psychology and philosophy in Munich, she obtained her PhD in 1973. After several fellowships, she graduated from Munich University in 1987.
Her main research interest is in social changes and the changing situation of the institution of the family. She is the widow of the late sociologist, Ulrich Beck.
Works
- Das halbierte Leben (1980)
- Vom Geburtenreckgang zum ganz normalen Leben (1984)
- Welche Gesundheit wollen wir?: Dilemmata des medizintechnischen Fortschritts. Suhrkamp. 1995. ISBN 9783518119563.
- Die Kinderfrage. C. H. Beck. 2006 [First published 1988]. ISBN 9783406547768.
- Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe (1990)
- Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (1995). The normal chaos of love. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-7456-1382-6.
- Was kommt nach der Familie? (2000)
- Reinventing the family: in search of new lifestyles. Wiley-Blackwell. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7456-2214-9.
- Individualization: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences. SAGE. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7619-6112-3.
- The social implications of bioengineering. Humanities Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-391-03841-7.
- "Ein Türke geht nicht in die Oper" – was Deutsche über Türken wissen, in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2), Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5
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