Beate Littig
Dipl.Soz. Dr.rer.soc.oec. habil.
Head of the Department
Senior Researcher
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Institute for Advance Studies (IHS), Vienna
Beate Littig
- Phone:++43-1-59991-215
- Fax: ++43-1-59991-191
Selected Publications
Beate Littig is head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced studies. She studied Sociology (History, Philosophy and Psychology) at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and Berlin.
From 1987-89 she was a member of the interdisciplinary research and consulting team at the Daimler-Benz-Institute for Technology and Society in Berlin. The focus of her work then was on the analysis of changing values in Western societies and its potential impacts on the enterprise.
From 1990-92 she participated in the two-year postgraduate-programme at the IHS, Department of Sociology.
From 1993-94 she worked free-lanced in several research projects (such as environmental learning and qualification, social issue management).
In June 1994 she became research assistant at the IHS (occupied with two OECD-projects, Technology Audit for Hungary and National Innovation Systems).
In 1995 she finished her Ph.D. at the FernUniversität at Hagen.
Since February 1996 she is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Department of Sociology.
In 2001 she finished the habilitation procedure at the University of Vienna and became lecturer of Sociology at the University of Vienna. She works (in research and teaching) mainly in the fields of environmental sociology, sustainable labor societies, participatory technology assessment, gender studies and qualitative research methods. In these areas she coordinated several national and international research and participates in international research networks.
Since 2005 she is vice-president of the Austrian Sociology Association (ÖGS).
Selected Publications
Journals Articles
- E. Hildebrandt,/B. Littig, (ed.) (2006). Concepts, Approaches and Problems ofWork-Life-Balance. Editorial, Special Issue of European Societies, 8, (2) (forthcoming)
- E. Griessler,/B. Littig, (2005). "Social Sustainability. A catchword between political pragmatism and social theory." International Journal for Sustainable Development 8(1/2): 65-79
- E. Griessler,/B. Littig, (2003). "Participatory Technology Assessment of Xenotransplantation: Experimenting with the Neo Socratic Dialogue." Practical Philosophy 6(2): 56-67
- B. Littig, (2002). "The case of gender-sensitive socio-ecological research." Work, Employment and Society 16 (1): 111-132
- B. Littig, (2002): “Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Geschlechterverhältnisse: Überlegungen zur Konzeption nachhaltiger Arbeit”, in: Kurswechsel. Zeitschrift für gesellschafts- wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen, 4/2002, 38-51
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Books
- A. Bogner,/B. Littig,/W. Menz, (eds) (2008). Das Experteninterview. Theorie, Methode, Anwendung, Leske und Budrich, Opladen (3rd revised edition, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften)
- B. Littig, (ed) (2004). Religion und Nachhaltigkeit. Multidisziplinäre Zugänge und Sichtweisen, Münster, LIT-Verlag
- B. Littig, (2001). Feminist Perspectives on Environment and Society. London et al., Pearson Education
- B. Littig, (1995): Die Bedeutung von Umweltbewußtsein im Alltag. Oder: Was tun wir eigentlich, wenn wir umweltbewußt sind? Frankfurt am Main u.a., Peter-Lang-Verlag
Articles in Books
- B. Littig, (2005) „Nachhaltige Entwicklung - Gerechtigkeit für zukünftige Generationen. Kritische Überlegungen aus geschlechterpolitischer Sicht“. In: Bidwell-Steiner, M./ Wozonig , K.S. (ed.): Gender und Generationen, Band 2 der Reihe "Gendered Subjects", Studienverlag Innsbruck, 135-151- B. Littig, (2005). Socratic Dialogue as a New Means of Participatory Technology Assessment? The case for Xenotransplantation. In: N. Sanitt, Motivating Science. Science Communication from a Philosophical, Educational and Cultural Perspective. Luton, The Pantaneto Press: 37-48
- B. Littig, (2004). Religion und Nachhaltigkeit: Überblick über ein weites Feld. In: B. Littig, Religion und Nachhaltigkeit: Multidisziplinäre Zugänge und Sichtweisen. Münster et al., LIT-Verlag: 15-40
- B. Littig, (2004). „The Neo-Socratic Dialogue (NSD): A Method of Teaching the Ethics of Sustainable Development“. In: Chris Galea (ed): Teaching Business Sustainability, Sheffield: Greenleaf Publ., 240-252
Recent Projects
- GEN-DIALOG (Austrian Ministry of Science, GEN-AU programme, 2006-2008) on, amongst other issues, improving the quality of law-making by dialogues between various stakeholder groups and policy makers. Read more: http://www.ihs.ac.at/steps/gendialog
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