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Professor für soziologische Theorien und Kultursoziologie
NameMr Prof. Dr. Dominik Schrage
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Dominik Schrage's core research areas are cultural sociology and sociological theories; his fields of research are the sociology of consumption, the sociology of the media and, in particular, auditory culture. An overarching interest lies in the elaboration of a theoretically reflected diagnosis of the connection between socio-structural, media-technical and aesthetic transformations of the late 20th and 21st centuries, developed on the basis of exemplary case analyses. He was a member of the board of the Cultural Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association from 2005 to 2021 and was its spokesperson from 2015 to 2021.
A completed research project was situated in the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement". In addition to contributing to the conception and overarching theoretical perspective of the CRC (see programmatic contribution), Dominik Schrage, together with Sonja Engel, investigated the "philistine verdict" as an invective against social groups in middle-class that emerged in the 19th century; of particular interest here were the conflicts over visions of social order and the dynamizing effects of the vilification of philistines, petty bourgeois and philistines.
Another research project dealt with object-mediated transformation of sexuality knowledge, it was entitled"Consumer objects: Die Bedeutsamkeit der Dinge für den Zugang zu epistemischem und situativem Sexualitätswissen", and was part of the research network"Dinge und Sexualität. Production and Consumption in the 20th and 21st Centuries", in which the German Hygiene Museum, the Hannover Medical School and Schwules Museum Berlin were also involved. It was funded by the BMBF (program "The Language of Objects"). Research Associate in the project was Dr. Tino Heim.
Dominik Schrage has been working on the sociology of consumption since 2002, primarily in the sociology of consumption working group, which he heads together with Kai-Uwe Hellmann and which is based in the cultural sociology section. His habilitation thesis "Die Verfügbarkeit der Dinge. A Historical Sociology of Consumption" (2009) is also part of this focus.
Schrage had already discussed the significance of technical media for social subject forms, which became manifest in the 20th century, in his dissertation "Psychotechnik und Radiophonie. Subject constructions in artificial realities 1918-1932" (2001). His particular interest in auditory culture can also be traced back to his work on early radio and radio plays in his dissertation. He has continued to pursue this topic in a number of smaller works published since 2007; it was also the background for the research project "'Time has come today'. The intrinsic times of pop music chronotopoi and their contribution to the temporal differentiation of lifeworlds since the 1960s'. This was part of the DFG priority program "Ästhetische Eigenzeiten. Time and Representation in Polychronic Modernity"; the project involved musicologist Holger Schwetter (postdoc) and sociologist Anne-Kathrin Hoklas as a doctoral student. The project investigated the role of popular music in the social upheavals of the 1970s and early 1980s, relating the cultural-sociological questions about the genuinely music-related modes of experience typical of this period and the social forms of its celebration and dissemination (such as the country discotheque) to the sociological findings on the social transformation processes of this period.