Betina Hollstein

Betina Hollstein (* 1965 ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Betina Hollstein studied sociology at the University in Marburg and the Free University in Berlin . She completed her studies in 1992 with a diploma . In 2000 she submitted her doctoral thesis there. She has been a professor since 2011 .

From 1992 to 1998 initially research assistant at the Free University in Berlin, but switched to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1998 . From 2001 she was a lecturer at the University of Mannheim . In 2003, however, she moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she worked until 2006. After working at the University in Vienna from 2006 to 2008, she worked simultaneously at several universities: Humboldt University in Berlin (2007-2010), University of Hamburg (2009-2014, from 2011 as a full professor of sociology), Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2010) and University of Manchester (2012).

Since 2014, it is at the University in Bremen . Since 2016 she has also been head of department and spokesperson for the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. During her time in Bremen, she also spent a year visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (2016–2017) and the University of Cambridge in Cambridge .

The main topic of Hollstein's research work can be outlined with the terms "curriculum vitae - networks - social inequality" and was already the subject of her doctoral thesis in this form. In these subject areas, she highlights the effects of social networks on people. The research is primarily dedicated to the question of what role social networks and the social environment have on success in education, the labor market and social policy . Particular attention is paid to the influences of integration and participation and the role of ethnicity . New problem solving methods are being developed to deal with the disparities that are identified. The possibilities offered by new media are also considered.

In her research, Hollstein also found that widowed people, especially men who try to keep old contacts instead of making new contacts, often get lonely.

Publications

Betina Holstein has published several books in the field of sociology:

• Betina Holstein (2002): Social networks after widowhood (research sociology)
• Betina Hollstein, Florian Straus (ed.) (2006): Qualitative network analysis
• Betina Hollstein, Jürgen Pfeffer, Laura Behrmann (2013): Touchscreen-controlled instruments for surveying ego-centered networks, in: Michale Schönhuth , Markus Gamper , Michael Kronewett , Martin Stark (eds.): Visuelle Netzwerkforschung.
• Jürgen Pfeffer , Betina Hollstein, John Skvoretz (eds.) (2014): The Sunbelt 2013 Data: Mapping in the Field of Social Network Analysis, in: Connections
• Betina Hollstein, Silva Dominiguez (Ed.) (2014): Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: An Introduction
• Betina Hollstein, Martina Maas , Alexander Bassen (eds.) (2015): Career Paths, DIRK - German Investor Relations Association
• Betina Hollstein, Wenzel Matiaske , Kai-Uwe Schnapp (eds.) (2017): Networked Governance: Taking networks seriously
• Betina Hollstein, Wenzel Matiaske, Kai-Uwe-Schnapp, Michael Schnegg (eds.) (2017): Networked Governance: A new research perspective

Memberships

Hollstein is a member of the German Society for Sociology and the International Network for Social Network Analysis .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen. In: socium.uni-bremen.de. January 25, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen. In: socium.uni-bremen.de. May 12, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Network maps as an instrument for surveying egocentric networks (PDF file), p. 13
4. ^ SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen. In: socium.uni-bremen.de. January 25, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Doris Marszk: When the partner dies :. In: welt.de . November 25, 2005. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .