Stefan Bär is a lecturer and researcher at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology since 2007. He holds university degrees (Dipl.-Soz. & Dr. rer. pol.), the Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in Sociology, and was appointed Associate Professor in 2024.
2013-2017 he was an associated member to the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (project A26 The Transculture of Capitalism). In the summer terms 2016 & 2021, he served as an interim professor for sociology with a focus on organizational sociology. In 2022-23 he was a fellow at the Marsilius Kolleg. His research is on change of the health care system and hospitals as well as issues related to the sociology of medicine. He is member of the Heidelberg Research Center for Law, Society and Institutions (HCLSI) and the Heidelberg Research Group for Organization Studies (heiGOS).
Recent Publications:
WARTCHOW, JANICE LEE; STEFAN BÄR; BERND ALT-EPPING & CHRISTINA GERLACH (2025): Integration of social work into specialist palliative home service. In: Palliative Care & Social Practice (19), S. 1-13. (online first 26.01.25) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26323524241310457
POHLMANN, MARKUS; STEFAN BÄR & ELIZANGELA VALARINI (2024): Collective Mindsets: How to Analyze Neoliberal Thinking. In: Pohlmann, Markus & Friederike Elias (Hrsg.): Global Economic Elites and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Springer VS, S. 61-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42644-6_4
BÄR, STFEAN, VERONICA E. STEINWEG & DOMINIK DAUNER (2024): Verbesserte Ausbildungsbedingungen in der Pflege? Auswirkungen des Pflegeberufegesetzes auf die Praxisanleitung im Krankenhaus. In: WSI-Mitteilungen 2/2024, S. 131–136.
HEMPEL, MAJA & STEFAN BÄR (2024): Richtig beraten. Patientenaufklärung und Beratung in der Humangenetik. In: Ruperto Carola Forschungsmagazin (23), S. 77–83. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ruca.2024.23.24945
BÄR, STEFAN (2024): Kriterien einer guten Aufklärung im Kontext der sich zunehmend spezialisierenden, hoch technologisierten Humangenetik. In: Marsilius Kolleg Jahresbericht 2022/23 Bd. 24, S. 91–95.
BÄR, STEFAN & SEBASTIAN STARYSTACH (2023): Über die organisationale Formierung der Krankenhauspflege. In: Geschichte der Gesundheitsberufe 2/2023, S. 119–131.
BÄR, STEFAN (2023): Die Institutionalisierung von Corporate Compliance Strukturen an deutschen Universitätsklinika. In: CCZ Corporate Compliance Zeitschrift 11/2023, S. 304–310.
Stefan Bär’s publications on heiBIB
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Recent Research:
- Parental Counseling after Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
- Medical Organization Studies (MOS)