Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Microsociology

Conferral as an Honorary Doctor by the University of Turku

Anette Fasang was confered as a Honorary Doctor of the University of Turku based on her scientific achievements. The Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees of the University of Turku was organised on 26–27 May.

You will find more information on the ceremony as well as pictures by following this link.

Research Group "Varieties of Reproduction Regimes"

Prof. Dr. Hannah Zagel has acquired funding for a research group as part of the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The group will be based at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) from April 2022. It will investigate the interplay of reproductive regulatory measures, inequalities and norms from a comparative perspective.

Third Podcast-Episode of the Equal Lives Project

EqualLives is one of 13 simultaneous, transnational research projects funded by NORFACE to investigate the “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). The results of this project will be presented in several podcast episodes.

In the third episode of the podcast, Zafer Büyükkeçeci from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Professor Vered Kraus from the University of Haifa discuss their research regarding Work and family life courses among Jewish and Israeli-Palestinian Women in Israel. They use newly available linked census and administrative data to examine who has a more advantaged or disadvantaged work and family life. They discuss how they formed the life course groups, what they found and the implications of the research.

Erste Podcast-Episode des Equal Lives Project

EqualLives is one of 13 simultaneous, transnational research projects funded by NORFACE to investigate the “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). The results of this project will be presented in several podcast episodes.

In the first episode from December 5, 2019, Anette Fasang and Marika Jalovaara from the University of Türku tackle the question:Do Nordic countries live up to their promise of creating fairer and more equal societies? This question is addressed in their article Family Life Courses, Gender and Mid-Life earnings behandelt. The study examines whether the Nordic countries' reputation for pursuing family-friendly policies that create a fairer and more equal society is justified. Using register data from Finland, the researchers examine adult earnings based on their family life course and identify two groups of young adults that should be a focus for policy makers and researchers in the future.

Workshop "Demography and Inequality"

As part of the research group “Demography and Inequality”, the WZB invites you to a workshop of the same name on November 22, 2019. More information can be found here.

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andrew Abbott

As part of the Institute Colloquium, Prof. Dr. Andrew Abbott will give a lecture on “Between Marx and Marshall: Theorizing the Present and Process” on Monday, 4 June 2019 at the Institute of Social Sciences. The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang.
You will find the lecture here.

Lecture and book presentation

On December 13, 2018, Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay will present their book “Facing Barriers: Palestinian Women in a Jewish-Dominated Labor Market” at the Institute of Social Sciences. The two researchers from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa explain:

"Over the past 35 years, Palestinian women have become increasingly active in the formal labor market in Israel. Our book describes and analyzes the labor experience of these Palestinian women and explains why Palestinian and Jewish women have different rates and outcomes in the labor market. Challenging popular views that ascribe these differences to Arab culture and Islam, we find that it is state policies and economic barriers that hinder Palestinian women's participation and success.
Our analysis includes the various Palestinian sub-groups—Muslims, Bedouins, Druze, Christians, non-citizen residents of Jerusalem—and it shows how the specific life circumstances of the women from these subgroups affect their employment and achievements. The book provides an understanding of the contemporary possibilities and challenges faced by Palestinian women in the world of work as well as their prospects for the future."

The book can be found here.

Receiving the 2018 Rosabeth Moss Kanther Award

For the publication of their article The interplay of work and family trajectories over the life course: Germany and the United States in comparison, Anette Fasang und Silke Aisenbrey have been awarded the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. In its citation, the Center for Families at Purdue University (West Lafayette, USA) acknowledged the high quality of the contribution to research in the context of work and family. The Department of Microsociology is delighted to receive this award and congratulates the two prizewinners.

An interview with the two award winners can be found here.

ISW Colloquium – Winter Semester 2017/18

The colloquium of the Institute for Social Sciences (ISW) offers the community the opportunity to gather information and exchange ideas on a key topic throughout the semester. In the winter semester 2017/18, the focus is on “Gender and Migration”. The following guests will present their research:

• Prof. Nancy Foner, PhD (City University of New York): Barriers to Integration: Is Islam in Western Europe like Race in the United States?
• Dr. Meltem Kulaçatan (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Muslimische Mädchen und junge Frauen. Forschung an Schnittstellen von Gender, Migration, Religion und Bildung („Muslim girls and young women. Researching at interesections of gender, migration, religion and education”)
• Prof. Dr. Merlin Schaeffer (Universität zu Köln): Unintended Consequences of Persons of Immigrant Origin’s Status Aspirations: Ethnic Skills Gaps and Perceived Discrimination Across Europe

Generations & Gender Programme User Conference

The Generations and Gender Program, together with Population Europe and the WZB, invites you to the first User Conference. This international conference aims to bring together researchers working with data from the Generations and Gender Survey and the GGP Contextual Database and invite them to present and discuss their latest methodological approaches and empirical results. Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang is also part of the organizing committee.
More information can be found here, the programm for the conference can be found here.

Lecture series of the Institute of Social Sciences – Summer Semester 2016

Prof. Wolfgang Merkel (WZB/ISW): Wieviel Kapitalismus verträgt die Demokratie?
Prof. Anke Hassel (Hertie School of Governance): National Growth Strategies and Welfare State Reform
Prof. Karl Ulrich Mayer (Yale University/MPIB): Die Rückkehr der sozialen Ungleichheit
Prof. Juan Díez Medrano (Universidad Carlos III Madrid): Educational Systems and Cross-National Variation in Access to Foreign Language Education

Workshop "Demography and Inequality"

Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang, as part of the organizing committee, invites you to the workshop “Demography and Inequality”. The workshop is the result of a collaboration between the ECSR (European Consortium for Sociological Research), the MPIDR (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) and Population Europe. The aim of the workshop is to bring together demographers and sociologists to discuss the relationship between key demographic processes (fertility, migration, mortality and health) and social inequality. More information is available here .

Youth Author Prize 2015

Emmanuela Struffolino wins the Young Author Prize of the Population Journal for her article "Self-reported health among lone mothers: Do employment and education matter?". More information can be found here.