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Research
 

 
Current Research- and Teaching Projects

Student projects on: individualization and networks in the age of the Internet

Project leader: Marina Hennig

Personal Relations und Networks in Facebook
Hazim Aliosman, Fayad Habib, Katharina Kildau,Tobias Seibrich

Facebook: between freedom and coercion - A study on social impact of online groups
Mesut Akbulut, Nina Blumenthal, Bettina Dalberg, Bianka Ofenloch

Building trust on the internet. A study of the confidence-building mechanisms using the example of Couch-Surfing
Thorsten Anthes, Annette Fischer, Inga Freud, Lars Grau, Ben Gronert, Christina Seitz, Phillip Winter
 
 

Completed Projects

 

Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe

Duration: February 2006 to August 2009

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Detlev Lück, Silvia Ruppenthal, Heiko Rüger

Cooperating institutions: Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis, Brussel (Belgien), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Frankreich), Bundeswehruniversität München, University of Warsaw (Polen), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spanien), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (Schweiz), Université de Lausanne (Schweiz), FH Nürnberg (Germany), RWTH Aachen (Germany)

Funding: European Commission (Sixth Framework Programme for research and technological development)

Short description: The project studies job-related spatial mobility, its causes, its obstacles, and its interaction with job career and with the private sphere. This includes partnership and family development, social integration, and the subjective well-being. In each of the six participating countries, a survey is carried out, collecting for the first time representative data on job mobilities.

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Family-Friendly Working Conditions in Rhineland-Palatinate - Present and Future

Duration: August 2004 to June 2005

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Julia Häuser, Robert Naderi, Silvia Ruppenthal, Stephan Stengel

Funding: MASFG, Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Family, and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate

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Caring for Family Members and Job Career

Duration: August 2005 to January 2006

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Julia C. Häuser, Silvia Ruppenthal, Stephan Stengel

Funding: MASFG, Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Family, and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate

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Entsendung ins Ausland - Chancen und Risiken einer mobilen Lebensform

Duration: March 2001 to April 2002

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Heike Matthias-Bleck

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Berufsmobilität und Lebensform

Duration: September 1998 to February 2001

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Ruth Limmer

Cooperating institutions: Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg (ifb)

Funding: Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, as well as Ministry for labour and Social Order, Family, Women and Health of Bavaria

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Wie leben die Deutschen?

Duration: December 1999 to August 2000

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider

Research team: Kerstin Hartmann

Cooperating institutions: Familienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsstelle des Statistischen Landesamtes Baden-Württemberg

Funding: Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth

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Vielfalt der Lebenssituation von Alleinerziehenden

Duration: December 1996 to October 2000

Project leader: Norbert F. Schneider / Dorothea Krüger

Research team: Heike Matthias-Bleck, Susanne Groth, Claudia Heinzelmann, Irene Kahle, Vera Lasch, Ruth Limmer, Rotraut Oberndorfer, Andrea Schröther, Stefanie Sperlich

Cooperating institutions: Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg (ifb) sowie Forschungsinstitut Frau und Gesellschaft, Hannover (ifg)

Funding: Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, as well as Ministry for labour and Social Order, Family, Women and Health of Bavaria

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Teaching Projects

Individualisierung und Netzwerke im Zeitalter des Internets

Duration: winter semester 2011/12 and summer semester 2012

Conducted by: Marina Hennig


Familie und Familienpolitik im öffentlichen Diskurs

Duration: winter semester 2007/2008 and summer semester 2008

Conducted by: Norbert F. Schneider, Stephan Stengel


Konsum in der Konsumgesellschaft

Duration: summer semester 2006 and winter semester 2006/2007

Conducted by: Norbert F. Schneider, Stephan Stengel


Value of marriage

Duration: winter semester 2004/2005 and sommer semester 2005

Conducted by: Norbert F. Schneider, Stephan Stengel


Das neue Umgangsrecht für Kinder und seine Folgen

Duration: sommer semester 2003 and winter semester 2003/2004

Conducted by: Norbert F. Schneider, Heike Matthias-Bleck


Mobile Lebensformen

Duration: sommer semester 2001 and winter semester 2001/2002

Conducted by: Norbert F. Schneider, Heike Matthias-Bleck