Curriculum vitae do Professor Doutor Michael Vester
1939 - Dec. 9, born in Berlin
1959 - Abitur / Maturity Degree in Holzminden, Federal Republic of Germany
1959-1965 - Student of the Social Sciences
University of Hamburg (1959-60)
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (1960-61)
Bowdoin College - Brunswick/Maine, USA (1961-62, Fulbright Scholarship)
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (1962-1965, Scholarship of the Mitbestimmung Foundation / Hans Böckler Foundation)
1965 - Graduation at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Degree: Diploma in Sociology
Thesis: „Die politische Soziologie von C. Wright Mills“ [The Political Sociology of C. Wright Mills]
1965-1971 - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Technological University of Hannover
1968 - Dr. Phil./ Ph. D., Department of Political Science, Technological University of Hannover
Thesis: „Die Entstehung antikapitalistischer Theorie und Praxis in England 1792-1848“ [The Origins of Anti-Capitalist Theory and Practice in England 1792-1848]
1971-2005 - Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Leibniz University of Hannover
1990-1996 - Director of the Reasearch Institute „agis - Arbeitsgruppe Interdisziplinäre Sozialstrukturforschung“ / Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Structural Research, Leibniz University Hannover and president of the „Forschungs-verbund Interdisziplinäre Sozialstrukturforschung“ / Co-operative Research Institute of the Universities of Hannover and Oldenburg, funded by the Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture (from the Lower Saxon Assignment of the Volkswagen Foundation)
1995-2004 - Member of the board of the Section “Social Inequality and Socio-Structural Analysis” of the German Sociological Association
Since 2005 - Director of the Research Group Habitus and Milieu, Department of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover
Fields of Research
Historical, Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the history and theory of changing social structures, social movements, social milieus and social mentalities since the French Revolution.
Selected Research Projects
Agrarre¬form und Entwick¬lung in Südportu¬gal, Kooperationsprojekt mit [Reforma agrária e desenvolvimento, directed in co-operation with] Professor Doutor Afonso de Barros, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisboa - funded by the Volks¬wagen Foundation, 1986-1990.
Der Wandel der Sozialstruktur und die Entstehung neuer gesellschaftlich-politischer Milieus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [The Transformation of the Social Structure and the Origins of the New Socio-Political Milieus in Federal Germany] - funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (1988-1991).
Der Wandel der Sozialstruktur und die Transformation von Arbeitnehmermilieus in den neuen Bundesländern [The Transformation of the Social Structure and of the Employee Milieus in East Germany] - funded from the Lower Saxon Assignment of the Volks¬wagen Foundation and by Hans Böckler Foundation (1991-1993).
Weibliche Beschäftigte im Stahl- und Walzwerk Branden¬burg [Female Employees in the Steel and Rolling Mill of Brandenburg] - funded by the Commission of the European Community and by the Hans Böckler Foundation (1993-1994).
Arbeitneh¬mermilieus als Ziel¬gruppen des Bildungsurlaubs. Angebote, Motivationen und Barrieren der Teilnahme am Bildungsurlaubsprogramm von „Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen e.V.“ [Employee Milieus as Target Groups of Study Leaves. Programs, Motivations and Barriers of Participation] - funded by the Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture (1995-1998).
Mentalitäten der 'neuen Mitte' [Mentalities of the ‚New Middle Classes‘] - funded by the Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture (1996-1997).
Kirche und Milieu [Church and Milieus] - funded by the Hanns-Lilje-Stiftung of the Protestant Church (1998-1999).
Studierendenmilieus in den Sozialwissenschaften [Milieus of University Students in the Social Sciences] - funded by the Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture (2004-2005).
Neue Arbeitnehmermilieus [New Employee Milieus] - funded by the IG Metall / Industrial Union of the Metal Industries (2005-2006).
Junge Arbeitnehmermilieus am Beispiel von Auszubildenden in IT-Berufen und kaufmännischen Angestellten [Young Employee Milieus of Trainees in IT Occupations and of Business Employees] - funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation (2008-2009).
Articles
More than 200 Articles published in Germany, England, the United States of America, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Russia and China.
On Regional Development and Agrarian Reform
Michael Vester (ed., with Fritz von Wedel, Karl Heisel and Wolfgang Sieber) (1982a): Die vergessene Revolution - Sieben Jahre Agrarkooperativen in Portugal [A Revolução Esquecida. Sete anos das cooperativas agrárias em Portugal / The Forgotten Revolution - Seven Years of Agrarian Co-operatives in Portugal], Frankfurt/Main: Materialis.
Michael Vester (1982b): Die sanfte Revolution. Thesen zur Agrarrevolution in Südportugal 1975 - 1981. [A Revolução Suave. Teses sobre a revolução agrária no Sul de Portugal 1975 - 1981], in: Michael Vester et al. (eds.), Die vergessene Revolution. Sieben Jahre Agrarkooperativen in Portugal [A Revolução Esquecida. Sete anos das cooperativas agrárias em Portugal], Frankfurt/Main: Materialis, pp. 75-121.
Michael Vester (1982c): A força bloqueada. A revolução em Portugal e a economia moral no Alentejo. 17 teses [Versão alargada de: Michael Vester 1982b. Tradução: Joaquim da Silveira e Flavio Pereira das Neves].
Michael Vester (with Andreas Rebers) (1982d): Cooperativa Agrícola “Doutor Evaristo Gago”, in: Michael Vester 1982a, pp. 39-49.
Michael Vester (1986): A Reforma Agrária Portuguesa como processo social [The Portuguese Agrarian reform as a Social Process], in: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Coimbra), no. 18/19/20, Fevereiro de 1986, pp. 481-516.
Michael Vester (1991): Modernisie¬rung und Unter¬entwicklung in Südportu¬gal 1950-1990: Latifundien, Arbeiterkooperativen und ‚rote Rathäuser‘ in einer Randregion der Europäischen Gemeinschaft [Modernização e subdesenvolvimento no Sul de Portugal 1950-1990: Latifúndios, cooperativas de trabalhadores e ‘câmaras municipais vermelhas’ numa região periférica da Comunidade Europea / Modernization and Underdevelopment in Southern Portugal 1950-1990: Latitfundia, Workers‘ Co-operatives, and ‚Red Townhalls‘ in a Peripherical Region of the European Community], Hannover: agis.
Michael Vester (ed.) (1993a): Unterentwicklung und Selbst¬hilfe in europäi¬schen Regio¬nen - Genossenschaften, Schattenwirtschaft, Regionalinitiativen und EG-Politik [Subdesenvolvimento e autoajuda nas regiões Europeias - Cooperativas, economias informais, iniciativas regionais e políticas da Comunidade Europeia / Underdevelopment and Self-Help in European Regions - Co-operatives, Informal Economies, Regional Initiatives and European Community Politics] : Alentejo, Andalusien, Aveiro, Asturien, Emilia Romagna, Mezzogiorno, Ostdeutschland, Polen, Hg., Hannover: Offizin.
Michael Vester (1993b): Ökonomische Modernisierung und soziale Milieus. Innovative und entwicklungshemmende Akteure in einer Südregion [Modernização económica e milieux socais. Actores inovativas e actores retardantes numa região do Sul / Economic Modernization and Social Milieus. Innovating and Retarding Actors in a Region of the South], in: Michael Vester 1993a, pp. 21-45.
Other Selected Books
Michael Vester (1970ff): Die Entstehung des Proletari¬ats als Lernprozess [The Origins of the Working Class - A Process of Learning], Frankfurt/Main: EVA.
Michael Vester (ed.) (1970b): Die Frühsoziali¬sten 1789-1848 [The Early Socialists 1789-1848], Vol. 1 [Germany], Reinbek: Rowohlt.
Michael Vester (ed.) (1971): Die Frühsoziali¬sten 1789-1848 [The Early Socialists 1789-1848], Vol. 2 [England and France], Reinbek: Rowohlt.
Michael Vester (ed., with Michael Hofmann and Irene Zierke) (1995): Soziale Milieus in Ost-deutsch¬land. Gesellschaftliche Strukturen zwischen Zerfall und Neubildung [Social Milieus in Eastern Germany - Social Structures between Disintegration and New Formation], Köln: Bund
Michael Vester (ed., with Peter A. Berger) (1998): Alte Ungleichhei¬ten - neue Spaltungen [Old Inequalities - New Divisions], Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
Michael Vester (ed., with Wolfgang Vögele and Helmut Bremer) (2002): Soziale Milieus und Kirche [Social Milieus and Church], Würzburg: Ergon.
Michael Vester/Christel Teiwes-Kügler/Andrea Lange-Vester (2007): Die neuen Arbeitnehmer. Zunehmende Kompetenzen - wachsende Unsicherheit [The New Employees. Rising Competences - Growing Insecurity], preface by Berthold Huber, President of IG Metall / Industrial Union of the Metal Industries, Hamburg: VSA.
Michael Vester/Peter von Oertzen/Heiko Geiling/Thomas Hermann/Dagmar Müller (2015 [2001, 1993]): Soziale Milieus im gesell¬schaftli¬chen Struktur¬wan¬del. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung [Social Milieus and Socio-Structural Change: Between Integration and Exclusion], Berlin: Suhrkamp.