Biography:Uta Gerhardt

Short description: German sociologist

Uta Gerhardt
Born	(1938-06-11) June 11, 1938 Zella-Mehlis, Germany
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Konstanz
Academic work
Main interests	German sociology

Uta Gerhardt (born 11 June 1938 in Zella-Mehlis, Germany ) is a German sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. She studied sociology, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. In 1969, she obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz. The focus of her work is on medical sociology, structural-functionalist role theory, and general sociological theory. She also wrote a major biography of Talcott Parsons.

Uta Gerhardt is not to be confused with the feminist German sociologist Ute Gerhard.

Selected works

Books

• Gerhardt, Uta (1971) (in German). Rollenanalyse als kritische Soziologie; ein konzeptueller Rahmen zur empirischen und methodologischen Begründung einer Theorie der Vergesellschaftung. Berlin, Germany: Neuwied. OCLC 1950340. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (1986) (in German). Patientenkarrieren: eine medizinsoziologische Studie. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518113257. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (1991) (in German). Gesellschaft und Gesundheit: Begründung der Medizinsoziologie. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518285701. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (1998). German sociology. New York, New York: Continuum. ISBN 9780826409591. https://archive.org/details/germansociology0000unse. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (1999) (in German). Herz und Handlungsrationalität: biographische Verläufe nach koronarer Bypass-Operation zwischen Beruf und Berentung: eine idealtypenanalytische Studie. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518289846. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (2001) (in German). Idealtypus: zur methodologischen Begründung der modernen Soziologie. Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518291429. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (2005) (in German). Soziologie der Stunde Null: zur Gesellschaftskonzeption des amerikanischen Besatzungsregimes in Deutschland 1944-1945/1946. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518293683. 

Journal articles

• Gerhardt, Uta (2001). "Social policy and motherhood: the case of East and West Germany". Travail, Genre et Sociétés (La Découverte) 2 (6): 59–81. doi:10.3917/tgs.006.0059. http://www.cairn-int.info/abstract-E_TGS_006_0059--social-policy-and-motherhood-the-case.htm. 
• Gerhardt, Uta (2008). "Modernity and sociology". Sociétés (De Boeck Supérieur) 3 (101): 35–47. doi:10.3917/soc.101.0035. http://www.cairn-int.info/abstract-E_SOC_101_0035--modernity-and-sociology.htm. 

External links

• Personal homepage in German and English, with complete bibliography
• Gerhardt's page at the University of Heidelberg (link not active as of 12 Sept 2013)