Christine Wimbauer

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Christine Wimbauer (* 1973 ) is a German sociologist and gender researcher.

Life

Christine Wimbauer studied sociology , law and social psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). There she received her doctorate in 2003 at the Institute for Sociology as a member of the Collaborative Research Center 536 "Reflexive Modernization" (Dr. phil.). Your dissertation on money and love. For the symbolic meaning of money in couple relationships , it was awarded the dissertation prize of the LMU Munich and the German Society for Sociology. After an Emmy Noether scholarship at Yale University, she headed the Emmy Noether junior research group "Love, Work, Recognition - Recognition and Inequality in Dual Career Pairs" from 2006 to 2010, initially at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, then at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). In 2011 she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on recognition and inequality in dual career couples. The book When Work Replaces Love. Double career couples between recognition and inequality appeared in 2012 as a revised version of their habilitation thesis. From January 1, 2011 to March 2014, she was Professor of Sociology with a focus on social inequality and gender at the University of Duisburg-Essen . From April 2014 to the end of February 2015 she was Professor of Microsociology with a focus on gender relations at the Institute for Sociology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Christine Wimbauer has been Professor of Sociology of Work and Gender Relations at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin since March 2015 .

research

Christine Wimbauer's research topics are social inequalities and especially inequalities between the sexes. The focus of her work is how the relationship between gainful employment and family or private relationships is shown. In this context, gender inequalities on the labor market and in work organizations are of interest, questions of the (non-) compatibility of work with family and couple relationships and finally also the welfare state and family policy (re-) production of inequalities in gender relations.

Focus of work

The main research areas include a .:

  • Love and family (s) beyond the heterosexual norm, queer theory, LGBTIQ *
  • Precarization in the context of life
  • Social inequality and social structure analysis
  • Social policy and welfare state
  • Sociology of work, especially change in gainful and reproductive work, work / organizations, (in) compatibility of work and life
  • Sociology of couple relationships and microsociology
  • Sociological gender research, especially sociology of gender relations; Caring and self-care relationships
  • Sociological theory, recognition theory

Fonts (selection)

  • with Mona Motakef: The couple interview. Methodology - Method - Method Practice VS Springer, Wiesbaden 2017.
  • The couple interview in sociological couple research. Methodological and practical research considerations [87 paragraphs]. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 18 (2), Art. 4
  • When work replaces love. Dual career couples between recognition and inequality. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2012.
  • Money and love. On the symbolic meaning of money in couple relationships. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2003.
  • Organization, gender, career. Case studies from a research institute. Studies in the sociology of science and organization, volume 1. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1999.
  • with Alessandra Rusconi, Mona Motakef, Beate Kortendiek and Peter A. Berger (eds.): Couples and Inequality (en). A ratio determination. Special issue Gender: magazine for gender, culture and society. Volume 2, 2013.
  • with Annette Henninger and Markus Gottwald (eds.): Society as an 'institutionalized system of recognition' - recognition and inequality in couple relationships, work organizations and the welfare state. Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2007.
  • with Heike Solga (Ed.): "When two do the same ..." - ideal and reality of social (in) equality in dual career couples. Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nbn-resolving.de: Joint Couple Interviews in Sociological Research on Couples: Methodological and Practical Considerations
personal data
SURNAME Wimbauer, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and gender researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1973