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Comparative Studies of Social Structure: Recent German Research on France, the United States and the Federal Republic book cover

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Comparative Studies of Social Structure Recent German Research on France, the United States and the Federal Republic

By Wolfgang Teckenberg Copyright 1987
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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A collection of essays with the purpose of stimulate interest and provoke discussion and criticism, and so contributing to our understanding of the three very different societies of France, the USA and Germany. Each essay stands on its own, and it is the authors’ intention to explain some of the differences between Germany and the United States in the first article. The second essay suggests that... Read more
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Biography

Wolfgang Teckenberg was trained in sociology, history, and languages at the University of Cologne. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Kiel, from 1978 until 1985, and is currently at the Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg. During 1981–82, as a German Marshall Fund fellow, Teckenberg was visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at Columbia University in New York. He has done extensive research on social stratification, mobility, and the impact of class in comparative perspective and has published numerous articles on these and other sociological topics. He is the author of The Social Structure of the Soviet Working Class: Toward an Estatist Society? (International Journal of Sociology, Vol. X I , No. 4) and of the USSR volume in the Gegenwartgesellschaften [Contemporary Societies] series published by Teubner Verlag (1983).

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