Bielefeld University
University founded in the late 1960s in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. See Bielefeld.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Take Smart Notes | Sönke Ahrens | turning point | Where Niklas Luhmann, an administrator turned sociologist, became a professor and built his slip-box theory of society. |
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How to Take Smart Notes — Sönke Ahrens (2017)
Source: How to Take Smart Notes · Readwise highlight
Shortly after, in 1968, he was chosen to become professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld – a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: In the introduction, Ahrens tells how Luhmann, a civil servant without sociology credentials, is invited to a chair at the newly founded university, completes his doctorate and habilitation from his slip-box in under a year, and takes up the professorship in 1968.
- Why it matters: This is where the slip-box stops being a private habit and becomes a career: the book’s origin story of the method turns on the Bielefeld appointment. Any university would do for the argument, but this is the real one.