Jörg Blasius (born 1957) is a German sociologist, and Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. He became known through his earlier work on

correspondence analysis Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical technique proposed by Herman Otto Hartley (Hirschfeld) and later developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri. It is conceptually similar to principal component analysis, but applies to categorical ...

in the social sciences.Borg, Ingwer, and Patrick JF Groenen. ''Modern multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 2005.

Life and work

Born in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

Blasius obtained his degree in sociology. From 1986 to 2001 he was researcher at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

at the city's Central Archive for Empirical Social Research. In 2001 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the

. His research interests include the methods of empirical social research, the statistics used (in particular correspondence analysis), the

urban sociology Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped ...

, lifestyles, media research,

environmental sociology Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment. The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by wh ...

and

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

Selected publications

* Greenacre, Michael J., and Jörg Blasius, eds. ''Correspondence analysis in the social sciences: Recent developments and applications.'' London: Academic Press, 1994. * Blasius, Jörg, and Michael Greenacre. ''Visualization of categorical data.'' Academic Press, 1998. * Friedrichs, Jürgen, and Jörg Blasius. ''Leben in benachteiligten Wohngebieten.'' Opladen: Leske+ Budrich, 2000. * Blasius, Jörg. ''Korrespondenzanalyse.'' Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001. * Cor van Dijkum, J. Blasius, H. Kleijer, B. van Hilten (Eds.), ''Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology.'' SISWO, Amsterdam, 2004. * Blasius, Jörg, and Victor Thiessen. ''Assessing the quality of survey data.'' Sage, 2012. * Jorg Blasius and Michael Greenacre, ''Visualization and Verbalization of Data.'' CRC Press, 2014.

References

External links

Personal page at the University of Bonn
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