Horst J. Helle

Personal Data	Current Position	Educational Background	Employment	Awards
Professional Activities	Membership in Learned Societies	Areas of Teaching Interest	Teaching Experience	Books Articels/Reviews

CURRICULUM VITAE

Updated Sept. 2006

Personal Data

Name:	Horst Jürgen Helle
Address:	Konradstr. 6 Home: Elfriedenstr. 14
	80801 München, Germany 81827 München, Germany
Telephone:	Office: x-4989-2180-2924
	Home: x-4989-4374-8350
E-Mail:	horsthelle@hotmail.com

Current Position

Professor emeritus of Sociology, Institut für Soziologie, Universität München, München, Germany

Educational Background

1953-56	Universität Hamburg: Business Administration, Economics, Civil Law, Dutch, English
1956	Diplom-Kaufmann (Business Degree)
1956-57	University of Kansas: Graduate Study in Business Administration and Social Psychology
1957	Master of Business Administration: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1959	Dr. phil. (Sociology, Psychology): Universität Hamburg, Germany
1961-66	Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
1966-67	Fellowship, awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies: Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Sociology of The University of Chicago
1967	Habilitation (Sociology): Privatdozent, Universität Hamburg

Employment

1959-61	Marketing Manager in Industry: Unilever Germany, Hamburg
1961-69	Universität Hamburg: Assistant, Sociology 1961-1968, Universitätsdozent, Sociology 1968-69
1969-72	RWTH Aachen (Aachen Institute of Technology): Professor of Sociology ("Was macht man, wenn keiner Rektor sein will?" Aachener Volkszeitung)
1972-73	Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria: Professor of Sociology
1973-2002	Universität München, Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Institut für Soziologie

Awards

1956-57	Fulbright Scholarship, University of Kansas
1958-59	Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, scholarship for graduate work toward doctorate
1966-67	American Council of Learned Societies: American Studies Fellow
1984	Killam Visiting Scholar, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Sept./Dec.)
1990	Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Bonn: Travel grant for sabbatical leave at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Aug.-Dec.)
1991	Fulbright Professorship for summer school teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder (July-Aug.)

Professional Activities

1970-71		Dean, Philosophische Fakultät, RWTH Aachen
1973		Visiting Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA (July-Sept.)
1979-88		Chairman, Sektion für Soziologie, Görres-Gesellschaft
1981-82		Visiting Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara
1981		Nov. 25.: Interview with Herbert Blumer in Berkley, California (engl.), (ital.) Dec. 18. Encounter with William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States in Los Angeles
1982		Chairman, Symposium 8: Revisions and Relations among Modern Microsociological Paradigms, 10th World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City
1984		Sept.-Dec.: Visiting Professor (Killam Scholar) The University of Calgary, Alberta
1984-86		Department Head, Institut für Soziologie Universität München
1985		March: Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
1986-87		Nov.-Feb.: Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
1986-88		Elected member of university senate, Universität München
1988		August: Organizer and director: OASIS Summer-School (Organization for Advanced Studies in Interpretative Sociology), an English language summer institute at the Universität München, co-taught with Tamotsu Shibutani, Friedrich Tenbruck and others.
1988-89		Nov.-Feb.: Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
1989		April: Visiting Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
1989-90		Nov.-Feb.: Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
1990		Aug.-Dec.: Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
1991		Jan.: Visiting Professor at Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
1991		Mar.-May: Exchange Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1991		Jul.-Aug.: Fulbright Professor during summer school, University of Colorado, Boulder
1991-92		Nov.-Feb.: Visiting Professor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
1991-93		Department Chair, Institut für Soziologie, Universität München
1993		March: Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1995		Research: University of Hawaii at Manoa (April-May), University of California at Santa Barbara (June-July). Teaching: University of Colorado at Boulder (August)
1995		Sept.-Oct.: Guest lectures in Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Seoul.
1996		March: Guest lectures in Seoul and Beijing.
1996		April: Co-Chair, International Conference on George Simmel's Actual and Potential Impact on Contemporary Sociology: University of Colorado at Boulder (USA)
1997		March: Guest lectures and research contacts in Seoul and Beijing.
1997		Aug.-Sept.: Presenter at International Conference of Interuniversity Cooperation and Exchange, 3rd visit to Peking University, research contacts in Seoul, Kyoto, and Tokyo.
1998		March-Apr.: Research contacts in Seoul (Shamanism) and Beijing.
1999		March-Apr.: Research visit to Beijing, Guiyang, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou, financed by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
1999		Sept.-Dec.: Visiting Professor: University of Maine at Farmington, Maine, U.S.A.
2000		Jan.-Apr.: Visiting Professor: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
2000		August: Visit to Professor Phillip E. Hammond, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2001		June (1-10): China: Lecture and research contacts at Tongji University (picture) in Shanghai with field trips to the Shanghai temple district Chenghuang, and to Zhouzhuang, Hangzhou, and Suzhou.
2001		June (10-13): Korea: Lecture at the German-Korean Conference in Seoul: Korea and Germany at the Threshold of the 21st Century.
2002		Jan.: Visit to Shanghai. August: Visit to Boston, New York, the University of Maine at Farmington, and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
2003		Aug.-Oct.: Two months in China with professional contacts at Peking University and guest lectures at Fudan University and Tongji University in Shanghai, and at Huaqiao University in Quanzhou. (Interview with Prof. Helle about the visit of German Federal President to China) (Handout Lecture at Huaqiao University)
2004	May: Visit to Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. Sept. 15-18: Presenter at the XII Congress of the Polish Sociological Association in Poznan, Poland.
2005	Febr.: Research contacts at Fudan University, Shanghai, and at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. May-June: Visiting scholar and lecturer at Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Business card: www.horst-helle.de/businesscard.doc)
2006	Jan.-May: Guest professor at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, U.S.A.
2007 2007	Teaching at Munich University as Professor emeritus during summer semester: April – July Sept.-Oct.: Guest teaching: Peking University and Dalian Technical University, China http://www.zds.pku.edu.cn/new/deutsch/Gaeste.htm

Membership in Learned Societies

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (Fellow)
• Görres-Gesellschaft

Areas of Teaching Interest

• Sociology of Verstehen (Georg Simmel, Max Weber)
• Symbolic Interaction Theory
• Sociology of the Family
• Sociology of Religion
• History of Social Thought

Teaching Experience

• Teaching assignments in sociology at the university level from May 1962 to date.

Books

1. Die unstetig beschäftigten Hafenarbeiter in den nordwesteuropäischen Häfen. Eine industriesoziologische Untersuchung in Antwerpen, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg und Rotterdam, (Dissertation), Stuttgart: G. Fischer 1960.
2. Soziologie und Symbol. Ein Beitrag zur Handlungstheorie und zur Theorie des sozialen Wandels, (Habilitationsschrift). Köln und Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1969.
3. Familie - Zwischen Bibel und Kinsey-Report, Osnabrück: A. Fromm 1974.
4. Verstehende Soziologie und Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion, Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner 1977.
5. Soziologie und Symbol. Verstehende Theorie der Werte in Kultur und Gesellschaft, 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflg., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1980.
6. (Editor) Kultur und Institution. Aufsätze und Vorträge aus der Sektion für Soziologie, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1982.
7. (Co-editor) S. N. Eisenstadt and H. J. Helle (eds.), Macro-Sociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory, vol. 1, London, Beverly Hills, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, (International Sociological Association) 1985.
8. (Co-editor) H. J. Helle and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds.), Micro-Sociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory, vol. 2, London, Beverly Hills, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, (International Sociological Association) 1985.
9. Aufsätze zur Familiensoziologie. (Reihe Soziologenkorrespondenz, Bd.11), München: Sozialforschunginstitut München e.V. 1985.
10. Dilthey, Simmel und Verstehen. Vorlesungen zur Geschichte der Soziologie. Frankfurt/M., Bern, New York: Peter Lang 1986.
11. Soziologie und Erkenntnistheorie bei Georg Simmel. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1988.
12. (Editor) Georg Simmel, Gesammelte Schriften zur Religionssoziologie. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1989. [bestellen]
13. (Editor) Verstehen and Pragmatism. Essays in Interpretative Sociology. Frankfurt/Main, Bern, New York, Paris: Peter Lang 1990.
14. (Co-editor) Pierpaolo Donati and Horst J. Helle (eds.), La Famiglia Oggi/Familie Heute. Annali di Sociologia/Soziologisches Jahrbuch 6 1990-I-II. Trento: Temi.
15. Verstehende Soziologie und Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion, 2. überarb. und erw. Aufl., Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner 1992.
16. Einführung in die Soziologie, 2. Auflg., München: Oldenbourg 1997.
17. Religionssoziologie - Die Entwicklung der Vorstellung vom Heiligen. München: Oldenbourg 1997.
18. (Co-editor and translator) H.J.Helle und L. Nieder (eds.), Essays on Religion by Georg Simmel,
    New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. [bestellen]
19. Verstehende Soziologie: Lehrbuch, München: Oldenbourg 1999.
20. Georg Simmel: Introduction to his Theory and Method, München: Oldenbourg 2001
21. Georg Simmel: Einführung in seine Theorie und Methode, München: Oldenbourg 2001
22. Theorie der Symbolischen Interaktion. Ein Beitrag zum Verstehenden Ansatz in Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 3. überarbeitete Auflage,Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2001
23. Symbolic Interaction and Verstehen. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Peter Lang 2005

Articles and Book Reviews

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