Renate Mayntz
{{Short description|German sociologist}}
Renate Mayntz (born 28 April 1929, Berlin) is a German sociologist. She was director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies,{{cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|title=Europeans Unite to Compete With Japan and U.S.|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0715FD385F0C728EDDA10894D1484D81|accessdate=21 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 August 1989}} and is now director emerita.
Biography
Mayntz studied in the United States, and in 1957 received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.{{cite web|title=Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis 2004 geht an Renate Mayntz und Fritz W. Scharpf|url=http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/36719/|publisher=Uni.protokolle.de|accessdate=21 February 2011|date=12 July 2004}} She taught at the Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer and the University of Cologne before founding, in 1984, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. In 1999, she won the Schader Award, Germany's highest accolade for a social scientist,{{cite web|title=Schader-Preis 2011 an Jan Philipp Reemtsma|url=http://www.juraforum.de/wissenschaft/schader-preis-2011-an-jan-philipp-reemtsma-346338|publisher=Juraforum.de|accessdate=21 February 2011}} and in 2004 she was awarded the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis.
Her areas of research include social theory, management policy, development and application of policies, the development of technology, science and the development of science and policy, and transnationals and the structures of transnational governance.
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External links
- [http://www.mpifg.de/people/rm/index_en.asp Renate Mayntz page] at Max Planck Institute
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Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:Max Planck Institute directors
Category:Free University of Berlin alumni
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