Background
Schoeck, Helmut was born on July 3, 1922 in Graz, Austria. Son of Stephan J. and Anna (Heigl) Schoeck. emigrated to the United States, 1950, naturalized, 1956.
Schoeck, Helmut was born on July 3, 1922 in Graz, Austria. Son of Stephan J. and Anna (Heigl) Schoeck. emigrated to the United States, 1950, naturalized, 1956.
Student, University Munich Medical School, 1941-1945; student, University Tuebingen, 1946-1950; Doctor Phil., 1948; postdoctoral fellow sociology, Yale, 1953-1954.
Assistant department philosophy University Munich, 1943-1945. Assistant to script director Radio Stuttgart, 1946. Professor social science Fairmont (West Virginia) State College, 1950-1953.
Assistant professor sociology Emory University, 1954-1956, associate professor sociology, 1956-1965. Professor, director Institute Sociology, University Mainz, 1965-1990. Professor emeritus University Mainz, since 1990.
Visiting professor American studies University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1964. Director Interdisciplinary Symposium on Culture Contact in Underdeveloped Countries Emory University, 1957. Director symposium on Scientism and the Study of Man, 1958, on Relativism and the Study of Man, 1959, on effects psychiatric theories modern society, 1960.
Director Symposium on private sector versus public sector, 1961.
Fellow American Anthropological Association, American Sociological Association. Member Mont Pelerin Society.
Married Margaret Weiler, June 24, 1947. Children: Natalia, Raymond, Stephanie.