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Verbundprojekt EdiCitNet - Strategien für multifunktionale, biodiverse und nachhaltig produktive Städte in Europa. Teilprojektr: Soziologische Aspekte der Fragestellung

Holm, Andrej, Dr. phil. (Urban and Regional Sociology)

Duration of project: 09/2016 - 03/2017

Das Projekt EdiCitNet zielt auf die qualitative und quantitative Aufwertung von produktiven Grünstrukturen und die nachhaltige Entwicklung der urbanen Landwirtschaft als wichtige Bausteine des ecological design auf Gebäude-, Quartiers- und gesamtstäd ...

Ambivalent Recognition Order. Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual nuclear family

Motakef, Mona, Dr. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 03/2021

The buzzword reproduction places questions concerning family formation into the center of (socio)political and scientific attention. Recently, Germany has put hetero- and homosexual relationships more equal by law, but social, institutional and legal ...

Ambivalent Recognition Order. Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual nuclear family

Wimbauer, Christine, Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 07/2021

The buzzword reproduction places questions concerning family formation into the center of (socio)political and scientific attention. Recently, Germany has put hetero- and homosexual relationships more equal by law, but social, institutional and legal ...

Ambivalent Recognition Order? Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual nuclear family

Peukert, Almut, Dr. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 12/2018

The buzzword reproduction places questions concerning family formation into the center of (socio)political and scientific attention. Recently, Germany has put hetero- and homosexual relationships more equal by law, but social, institutional and legal ...

Wimbauer, Christine, Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 04/2019 - 03/2020

If two or more persons found a family, who are neither a couple nor in a love relationship, it is called „Co-Parenting“. Yet, it remains an open question how co-parenting affects the (romantic) love complex. To date, a thorough discussion of the miss ...

CRC 1265/1: Knowledge and Goods: Consumers’ and Producers’ Spatial Knowledge (SP A03)

Kulke, Elmar, Prof. Dr. (Economic Geography)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 12/2021

The research project investigates on which specific spatial knowledge consumers (from various social milieus) and producers (actors in the supply chain) act upon when buying and selling fresh vegetables. We ask how actors refer to different spatial a ...

CRC 1265/1: The World Down My Street: Resources and Networks Used by City Dwellers (SP C04)

Blokland, Talja, Prof. Dr. (Urban and Regional Sociology)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 12/2021

The research project examines how increased spatial mobility affects social network relationships and their spatial arrangements, how spaces are constituted in social networks by heterogeneing the relationships with action, and how these spaces can b ...

CrimScapes: Navigating Citizenship Through European Landscapes of Criminalisation

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 11/2020 - 10/2023

The CrimScapes project explores the expanding application of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality as both responses to, and producers of, the politics of threat and uncertainty that are currently expanding across the E ...

Diversity and Adjustability of Peer Review – On the Metastability of Peer Review Formats (DivA)

Reinhart, Martin, Prof. Dr. (Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies)

Duration of project: 11/2020 - 10/2023

Science has to rely on review processes in which the quality of scientific work is evaluated. For processes of both internal and external regulation of science, this is usually done by peer review procedures. Although peer review is omnipresent as an ...

Europeanisation of Living Conditions

Nowicka, Magdalena, Prof. Dr. (Migration and Transnationalism)

Duration of project: 06/2016 - 12/2018

In view of the extremely high number of Polish entrepreneurs in Germany, the research project will investigate: 1) Why and under what conditions they decide to become self-employed, 2) What socio-economic status they have and aspire to, and 3) To wha ...

Female Employment after Migration (FEM): A Dynamic Approach to Women’s Work and Family Patterns after Migration

Giesecke, Johannes, Prof. Dr. (Empirical Social Science Research)

Duration of project: 02/2019 - 03/2022

A large body of literature has amassed that investigates the conditions and processes of the labour market integration of migrants. In this context, female migrants have often been viewed as “tied movers” whose migration decision is subordinate to th ...

Inequality, early adult life courses and economic outcomes at mid-life in comparative context

Fasang, Anette Éva, Prof. Dr. (Microsociology)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 09/2021

This innovative project adopts a holistic approach to understanding the dynamics of inequality across the life-course. We analyse how education, labor market and family choices interact to structure accumulated advantage and disadvantage over the lif ...

Institutional Implications of the Expansion of the Bioeconomy

Bokelmann, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Economics of Horticultural Production)

Duration of project: 02/2017 - 07/2019

The project identifies institutional arrangements and legal regulations which contribute to achieving public acceptance of the expansion of land use based bioeconomy. It explores innovative institutional arrangements which ensure agricultural structu ...

JRG/1: Accumulation of Personal Wealth in Couples: Individual Resources and Gender Inequalities in Intimate Relationships

Lersch, Philipp Martin, Prof. Dr. (Sociology of Social Policy)

Duration of project: 03/2017 - 06/2023

This project examines personal wealth of individuals within heterosexual couples. Wealth is an economic resource that provides many advantages that go beyond income. Particularly, personal wealth, which needs to be distinguished from household wealth ...

MERGE – Platform Migration in the Middle East

Foroutan Mahin, Naika, Prof. Dr. (Integration Research and Social Policy)

Duration of project: 11/2019 - 11/2021

Platform for connection and exchange about research and events regarding the topic: Migration in the Middle East

Migration and the Transformation of Public Law

Vetters, Larissa, Dr. (Public Law and Basics of Law)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 10/2017

Interdisciplinary workshop.

Migration and Workplace Participation

Karakayali, Serhat, (Berlin Institut for empirical Integration and Migration Research)

Duration of project: 11/2017 - 06/2021

This project examines the engagement trajectories of works councils with a migration background. The initial hypothesis is that the structures of workplace democracy have a positive effect on processes of political and social integration. The high le ...

Migration Background: Making and Social Reality of a Scientific Category

Will, Anne-Kathrin, Dr. (European Ethnology IV)

Duration of project: 03/2019 - 02/2022

In 2005 seventeen new questions on migration entered the microcensus, the German representative population statistics. With the new questions on migration the so called migration background is generated. Hence the descendants of immigrants became vis ...

National Integration Evaluation Mechanism. Measuring and improving integration of beneficiaries of international protection

Foroutan Mahin, Naika, Prof. Dr. (Integration Research and Social Policy)

Duration of project: 04/2016 - 04/2016

Forschung und Policy-Netzwerk zu Integrationspolitik und Integration in Deutschland

Overlapping Scientific Communities: Internal Structuration and Knowledge Diffusion in International Relations (IR)

Petras, Vivien, Prof. (Information Retrieval)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 12/2019

The aim of this project is to ascertain how the social structuration of multiple and overlapping International Relations (IR) communities affects the diffusion of knowledge within and among these communities. In particular, we want to analyze how the ...

Potentials of cooperation with African Initiated Churches for sustainable development

Gräb, Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. (Applied Theology Specializing in Cybernetics and Poimenics)

Duration of project: 02/2017 - 02/2020

PP 1646/2: The Role of Immigrants’ First and Second Language Proficiency for Social Integration, Particularly in Education: Analyses of NEPS Data (NEPS-PP II)

Stanat, Petra, Prof. Dr. (Berlin Institut for empirical Integration and Migration Research)

Duration of project: 03/2016 - 10/2021

With the proposed continuation of our interdisciplinary project, we aim at further clarifying the role of immigrants' first and second language proficiency and language use for their social integration, making use of the advanced analytical potential ...

PPP: Europeanisation of Living Conditions

Nowicka, Magdalena, Prof. Dr. (Head of Department / Secretary)

Duration of project: 10/2016 - 12/2018

Throughout Europe, people's own migration history determines their socio-economic positioning. The positioning, but also the chances of advancement of migrants in Germany are worse than those of Germans without a migration background. Scholars see se ...

RG 2265/1: Coordination Fund: Research Group Law – Gender – Collectivity: Processes of Standardization, Categorization and Generating Solidarity (SP 0)

Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 08/2021

Understanding the Information Seeking Behaviour and Digital Skills of Refugee Migrants during the Job Seeking Process

Trkulja, Violeta, Dr. (Knowledge Management)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 09/2018

The proposed study examines the information seeking behaviour of refugee migrants in Germany while pursuing a job, a training position, or following an educational path on the Internet. Competencies of refugees are positioned on the digital skill sca ...

Unequal Recognition? ‘Work’ and ‘Love’ in the Context of Life of Precarious Employees

Wimbauer, Christine, Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 03/2015 - 09/2017

Over the past several years, precarious work has become a topic of great importance in both scientific and public debates. The existent sociological research on precariousness has focused almost exclusively on individuals and paid work, without takin ...

Welcoming Neighbourhoods – Conditions of Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Communities

Hamann, Ulrike, Dr. (Georg Simmel Professorship in Comparative Studies on Diversity and Social Conflicts)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 03/2021

The research project “Welcoming Neighbourhoods – Conditions of Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Communities” explores the conditions of social cohesion and conflicts in urban neighbourhoods in Germany: What forms of respectful conviviality are presen ...

Welfare State Futures: Our Children's Europe

Mau, Steffen, Prof. Dr. (Macro Sociology)

Duration of project: 04/2015 - 10/2018

How will European welfare states develop in the future? Which expectations, ideas and aspirations do European citizens have in relation with public welfare provision and social security? In their view, what should be the main emphasis to ensure welfa ...

Antisemitismus bei Geflüchteten

Arnold, Sina, (Berlin Institut for empirical Integration and Migration Research)

Duration of project: 05/2016 - 12/2016