Bodemann's theoretical foundation continues to be influential against positivist notions of objectivity, which still persist in the field of sociology and in the approach to qualitative methods.
Bodemann is best known for his contributions to Jewish studies, and Holocaust memory, and his concept of "ideological labour": where especially ethnic minorities are cast as representing values contrasting those of the larger society.
It examined how the community became geographically marginalized and how the communal subsistence economy was disrupted and destroyed on account of new forms of taxation and privatization of land as well as the ecological destruction of its natural environment, especially deforestation.
Furthermore, Bodemann's dissertation focused on the rise and fall of family compacts in the community and the transformation of its kinship structures over one hundred years.
Some courses in German, and in Europe included, Zu politischen Soziologie Gramscis, Marxismus und Juden "frage", and "Rasse" und Ethnizität in westlichen Gesellschaften, which covered issues of race, ethnicity, issues and topics related to the German Jewry, and political/sociological theories.
Other professional affiliations and activities, from 1980 onwards, included The Insurgent Sociologist and the Critical Sociology Toronto Collective.
Through the decades, his active membership and critical, often anti-positivist and methodologically radical insights, influenced many of his young contemporaries.
Bodemann argued that this was only possible because West Germany at the time actively supported the new establishment of a Jewish community in order to signal to its Western neighbours, during the Cold War, the break with its Nazi past.
This real-political manoeuvre notwithstanding, the new generations felt genuine regret and attempted to recuperate the German Jewish intellectual and cultural heritage.