Uta Gerhardt

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, 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

• Rollenanalyse als kritische Soziologie. 1971.
• Patientenkarrieren. 1985.
• Gesellschaft und Gesundheit. 1991.
• Herz und Handlungsrationalität. 1999.
• Idealtypus. Zur methodischen Begründung der modernen Soziologie. 2001.
• Soziologie der Stunde Null. Zur Gesellschaftskonzeption des amerikanischen Besatzungsregimes in Deutschland 1944-1945/1946. 2005.

External links

• Gerhardt's page at the University of Heidelberg (link not active as of 12 Sept 2013)