[1] His texts are published in 10 languages and cover the sociology of knowledge, communication, contemporary religion, death and dying and video analysis.
[2] He is a member of the Council of the DGS (German Society for Sociology)[3] and has held many positions within the ESA, e.g.
[5] In contrast to “classic” ethnography this does not include prolonged stays in foreign cultures, but relies on video recordings of specialized fields within the researchers own society.
Based on “The Social Construction of Reality” by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, this approach includes bodily performances and material “objectivations” as “the missing analytical link which allows one to turn social into communicative action”.
[11] Without being reduced to speech acts, “communicative action" becomes “the basic process in the social construction of reality”.