On the holder of the chair
Dominik Schrage is member of the Cultural Sociology Section within German Sociological Association (DGS), he was member of the board since 2005 and speaker from 2015 to 2021. His research focuses lie on Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Consumption and Media Sociology, especially Auditive Culture. He is currently working on the interrelation of the transformations in social structure, media technology and aesthetic forms in 20th and 21st century, combining theoretical and empirical analysis. He is engaged in Sociology of Consumption Working Group, which he founded, together with Kai-Uwe Hellmann, in 2002. His habilitation thesis on "The Availability of Things. A Historical Sociology of Consumption" (Die Verfügbarkeit der Dinge, Frankfurt/New York 2009) is also situated in this area. In his PhD thesis on "Psychological Engineering and Radiophony 1918-1932" (Psychotechnik und Radiophonie, Munich 2001), he analysed the increasing relevance of media technology for social subjectivities. His interest in auditive culture dates back to the analysis of early radio and radio drama in the 1920s pursued in the PhD thesis.
Research projects:
- 2018-2021: "Objects of Consumption as tool for assessing Epistemic und Situated Knowledge on Sexuality", part of the research network "Objects and Sexuality. Production and Consumption in 20th and 21st Century", together with "Deutsche Hygienemuseum" and Medical University Hannover. Founded by the Federal Ministry od Education and Research (BMBF), programme "Die Sprache der Objekte" (The Language of Objects). Staff: Dr. Tino Heim (Sociology).
- 2017-2022: Project on the "Verdict against the Philistines" in 19th century, as a novel type of invectives against the middle class in modern society. The project is part of SFB (Collaborative Research Centre) 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement", funded by DFG (German Research Association). Staff: Sonja Engel (Sociology).
- 2014-2017: Project "Time has come today", part of the research network "Ästhetische Eigenzeiten", founded by DFG (German Research Association). The project analyses the role of popular music within the societal transformations of the 1970s and 1980s in West Germany, focusing on the impact of musical forms of experience and the social forms of their celebration and dissimination (like in the countryside discotheque). Staff: Dr. Holger Schwetter (Musicology), Anne-Kathrin Hoklas (Sociology).