Christoph Deutschmann is a German

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 sociologist

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. He currently holds a professor

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ship at the University of Tübingen.

Deutschmann studied sociology

Sociology

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 as a major, with economics

Economics

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 and law

Law

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 as minors, at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, graduating (German Diplom

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) in 1973 and earning his PhD

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 (German Dr.) there in 1975. From 1976 to 1984, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research

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, home of the Frankfurt School

Frankfurt School

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 and Critical Theory

Critical theory

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. In 1987, he habilitated in the Social Sciences

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 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 1989, he is professor for Social and Behavioural Sciences

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 in Tübingen

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.

His research is mainly in the field of economic sociology

Economic sociology

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, dealing with the role of money

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 in modernization

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 and for the affluent society;he criticizes money as being the new religion

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 of the secular

Secularism

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 and capitalist

Capitalism

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 society. Deutschmann is a proponent of Keynesianism and degrowth.