Privatdozent (≈Associate Professor) at Sociology Department
of Technical University of Dresden.
Currently: Visiting Professor (Full Professor) of Cultural Sociology at
Leuphana University, Lüneburg
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research fields and interests:
Dominik Schrage: Die Verfügbarkeit der Dinge.
Eine historische Soziologie des Konsums, Frankfurt/New York 2009.
(The availability of things.
A historical sociology of consumption)
Reviews:
H Soz u Kult 16.6.2011 (S. Kühn)
European J. of Sociology 3(2010) 538-41 (P. Wöhrle)
Neue Politische Literatur 1(2011) 5-35 (M. Möhring)
ZfMedienwissenschaft Dez. 2010 (M. Seeliger)
economic sociology/european newsletter
1(2010) 74-75 (K.-U. Hellmann)
sociology of consumption group
Kai-Uwe Hellmann/Dominik Schrage(ed.):
Book Series
"Konsumsoziologie und Massenkultur",
VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004-2009.
consumerism as an attitude towards the world
Consumerism is a disposition or an attitude of modern individuals that makes the promises of the market society attractive. Where and when did that attitude emerge? What is its social function? These are the key questions for my actual book that has just been published.
Together with Kai-Uwe Hellmann, I founded the sociology of consumption group, that aims to establish this subject in the German sociological debate. We had conferences in Dresden (2003), Magdeburg (2004), Giessen (2005) and a plenar session at the DGS conference in Munich (2004).
doctoral thesis (Dissertation):
Psychological engineering and radiophony
Constructions of subjectivity in artificial realities 1918-1932
Latest paper: "Erleben, Verstehen, Vergleichen. Eine soziologische Perspektive auf die auditive Wahrnehmung im 20. Jahrhundert", in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Heft 2/2011: Politik und Kultur des Klangs im 20. Jahrhundert (Hg. Daniel Morat, Christine Bartlitz, Jan-Holger Kirsch), S. 269-276. (A sociological outlook on auditive sensation in 20th century)
Sociology and history of media-based and data-based socialisation/subjectivation
My doctoral thesis deals with the parallel constitution of subjectivity and reality through media (radio) and methods of social regulation in 1920's Germany. It consists of two exemplary studies: 1st on German psychological engineering ("Psychotechnik") of the time, which is much less disciplinary than often argued. Instead, Psycho-technique aims to make the artificial knowledge produced by testing accessible for the tested individuals as a means of orientation. 2nd on radio, which can be seen as a complementary technique to deal with the artificial realities emerging in the course of rationalisation and technologisation: Radio permits the development of technically transmitted and aesthetically constructed experience (radio drama), simultaneously heard by virtually the whole of society.
Section Cultural Sociology:
Anthology: Lutz Hieber/Dominik Schrage (Hg.): Technische Reproduzierbarkeit Bielefeld 2007. (Technological reproducability)
Latest paper: "Divergierende Alteritätserfahrungen in der Kultursoziologie. Überlegungen zum Anlass der Diskussion um kulturelle Qualitätskriterien", in: Sociologia Internationalis, Heft 1/2009, S. 91-114 (Divergent experience of alterity in cultural sociology).
Cultural Sociology
As a member of the section Cultural Sociology in the German Sociological Association (DGS), I am interested in the epistemology of social and cultural theories, especially in relation to the discussions on mass culture. (Member of the board since 2005)
book:
Dominik Schrage (ed.): Die Flut. Diskursanalysen des Dresdner Hochwassers im August 2002 (Reihe Dresdner Beiträge zur Soziologie, Bd. 1), MV Wissenschaft, Münster 2005.
(The flood. Discourse analysis of the Dresden high water in August 2002)
Paper: "Kultur als Materialität oder Material - Diskurstheorie oder Diskursanalyse?" In: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Hg.): Soziale Ungleichheit - Kulturelle Unterschiede, Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München 2004, Frankfurt a.M./New York (Campus) 2006 (CD-ROM). (Culture as materiality or material? Discourse Theory or Discourse Analysis?)
Foucault and discourse analysis
I am especially interested in the concept of post-normative and post-disciplinary control. I hold to a concept of normalisation that is distinctive from the juridical normativity as well as from Foucaults concept of discipline that is based on prescriptive norms. What is in question here is a norm based on normality, on the normal.