Ulrich Dolata (born 1959 in Dortmund) is a German sociologist.
Ulrich Dolata (born 1959 in Dortmund) is a German sociologist.
Ulrich Dolata earned a graduate degree in economics (Diplom-Ökonom) at the University of Bremen in 1985, where he continued to complete a doctorate in economics and social sciences (Dr. pol.) in 1992 as well as a post-doctoral degree (habilitation) with a thesis on the sociology of technology in 2003. Starting with the mid of the 1980s, he worked at the University of Bremen and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, followed by artec (a research center for labor, environment and technology) at the University of Bremen, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne. In the academic year 2000–2001, he taught as a guest professor at the Technical University of Graz and was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz. Ulrich Dolata has been a member of the board of science and technology section of the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS) since 2007, and has served as its spokesperson between 2014 and 2018. [1] Since 2011, he has also been a member of the advisory board of the Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SST-Net) of the European Sociological Association (ESA). [2]
Since 2009, Ulrich Dolata has been teaching organizational and innovation sociology as full professor at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart. His work and research focuses on organizational and economic sociology, on innovation research and technology policy as well as on the sociology of genetic engineering and the internet. [3] [4] He is proponent of what has been termed techno-sociological institutionalism.
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