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Professor Dr. Eva Barlösius
 

v Curriculum vitae
v Fields of Specialization
v Projects
v Selected Publications
v Links


Eva Barlösius  now holds a professorship for sociology at the Leibniz University of Hannover.
The following pages present her research at the WZB as a Heisenberg fellow of the ¬ German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, DFG) until September 2004.

Tel. : +49511 762-5432
Fax:  +49511 762-5554
E-Mail: e.barloesius@ish.uni-hannover.de.
 

Member of the board of the ¬ Section "Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse" (Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis) of the  German Sociological Association (¬ GSA);  member of the evaluation committee of the  ¬ German Science Council  ( Wissenschaftsrat); member of the  Working Group  ¬  "Rahmenbedingungen der Forschung in Ressortforschungseinrichtungen" of the Wissenschaftsrat;  member of the senate commission of the ¬ German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for the ¬ Assessment of Chemicals Used in Agriculture; member of the board of editors of the Journal of Agrarian History and Agrarian Sociology  (Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie); member of the board of advisors of the Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie,  ¬ KZfSS), member of the strategy and steering committee of the  research programme  Research for Sustain-ability (¬  fona); member of the Project Group  ¬ "Science Policy Studies" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin..

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Curriculum vitae


born in  1959

1979 - 1983
Study of sociology and nutritional sciences at the Universities of Hanover und Munich

1983 - 1985 Student teacher at vocational schools (Referendariat)

1985 - 1988
Fellowship grant  within the post-graduate research promotion programme of Lower Saxony (Niedersächsisches Graduiertenförderungsgesetz)

1988
Doctorate: Dr. phil. in sociology, University of Hanover

1988 - 1989
Research fellow at the  Maison Science de l'Homme and the Hautes Ecoles en Sciences Sociales

1989 - 1990
Post-doc fellow ,  ¬ German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

1994
Postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in sociology, University of Hanover

1990 - 1996
Research fellow at the University of Bonn

1996 - 1997
Deputy professor for theoretical and general sociology at the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf

 1997 -
Heisenberg Programme fellow at the Science Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin, WZB),   Working Group on Public Health

1997 - 1998
Deputy professor for general sociology at the Humboldt-University, Berlin

2000
Visiting professor for sociology at the University of Hamburg

2003
Deputy professor for comparative analysis of  contemporary societies at the  University of  Leipzig

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Fields of Specialization


Sociology of culture, sociology of social inequality , theoretical and general sociology, sociology of knowledge and science, agrarian sociology

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Projects
  Research Project Body, health and diet (international comparison: France, Switzerland, England, Italy, USA , and Germany)
 
until 11/03

Research Project Change in nutrition. Strategies for social-ecological transformations in the field of Environment-Nutrition-Health (project approved for funding and support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, partnership for the module: nutrition and the general public)
 
from 03/02
until 01/05

Research Project and Consulting Evaluation by the  ¬ German Science Council  (Wissen-schaftsrat) - on the genesis of consensus
from 04/01
for several years

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Selected Publications

  Books
 		  

Barlösius, Eva:
Kämpfe um soziale Ungleichheit. Machttheoretische Perspektiven.
(Struggles about Social Inequality. Power Theory Perspectives.)
Lehrbuch (Textbook). Hagener Studientexte zur Soziologie,
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2004 (in print)
 [ISBN 3-531-14311-5, appr. 255 pp.]
 

Barlösius, Eva:
Soziale Ungleichheit. Neuere Fragen und Perspektiven.
Students' Handbook.
Hagen: Hagen University, Dept. of Cultural and Sociological Studies 2004.
 [380 pp.]
 

Barlösius, Eva, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (eds.):
Die Armut der Gesellschaft.
Opladen: Leske und Budrich 2001.
[ISBN 3-8100-2856-8, 367 pp.]

Barlösius, Eva, Hans-Peter Müller, Steffen Sigmund (eds.):
Gesellschaftsbilder im Umbruch - Soziologische Perspektiven in Deutschland.
Opladen: Leske und Budrich 2001.
[ISBN 3-8100-3083-X, 343 pp.]
 

Barlösius, Eva:
Soziologie des Essens. Eine sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Ernährungsforschung. Weinheim/München: Juventa Verlag 1999.
[ISBN 3-7799-1464-6, 256 pp]

People decide differently on what is edible and what is not, they have different notions about how food should be prepared, about table manners, about who is entitled to which food, and many other things. The resulting social and cultural set of rules adopted by a society at table is not only revealing with regard to this society’s attitude toward food but also tells a tale on society in general. Common ways of cooking, a shared table and taste bind people together and promote the sense of community. In contrast, unfamiliar ways of cooking, the denial of a place at table, and strange tastes result in separateness and the construction of social barriers. When a society changes, this set of rules may be called in question and even fall apart. If it does, the search for new eating rules becomes a central feature of the society at table. This holds particularly true for our society today. Abundance of food has not generated pleasure and enjoyment, but fear of eating and asceticism.

The book presents a comprehensive introduction to this topic offering specific topic-related explanations but also referring to more general sociological theories in order to throw light on the social conditioning of eating habits.
 
Articles/Contributions to books
 		  

Barlösius, Eva:
Klassiker im Goldrahmen. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie der Klassiker.
In: Leviathan 4 (2004), pp. 514-542.
 

Barlösius, Eva:
Europäische Steuerung des Lebensmittelsektors. Zwischen Transnationalisierung und Regionalisierung.
In: Jutta Allmendinger (ed.): Entstaatlichung und Soziale Sicherheit. Verhandlungen des 31. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Leipzig 2002, CD Ad-hoc-Gruppen: Ad-hoc-Gruppe Transnationa-lisierung der Alltagskultur: Theoretische Ansätze und empirische Ergebnisse.
Opladen: Leske und Budrich 2003, pp. 1-6.
 

Barlösius, Eva:
Grenzen des Fortschritts. Der Verbraucher im Spannungsfeld von Moral und Skandal.
In: Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (Hg.): 50 Jahre FEI - 50 Jahre Gemeinschaftsforschung der Ernährungsindustrie. Dokumentation der 61. FEI-Diskussionstagung (December 2003).
Bonn, pp. 61-73.
 

Barlösius, Eva, Claudia Neu:
Scheitern als Vorbedingung zum Erfolg. Der Wandel der ostdeutschen Landwirtschaft nach 1989. Eine Bilanz der Transformationsforschung über den Agrarsektor.
In: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte, Vol. 51, No. 2 20003, pp. 56-77.
 

Barlösius, Eva:
Weitgehend ungeplant und doch erwünscht: Figurationen und Habitus. Über den Stellenwert von nicht-intendiertem Handeln bei Norbert Elias und Pierre Bourdieu.
In: Greshoff, R., G. Kneer, U. Schimank (eds.): Die Transnationalität des Sozialen. Eine vergleichende Betrachtung klassischer und moderner Sozialtheorien.
Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2003, pp. 138-157.
 

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Links


  

  
  
  

¬ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ernährungsverhalten/
    Association for Research in Nutritional Behaviour
¬ Sektion soziale Ungleichheit und
¬ Sozialstrukturanalyse der DGS
    DFG Programmgruppe Ernährungsforschung
 

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