Jens Alber

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Jens Alber (* 1947 ) is a German sociologist and political scientist .

Life

Jens Alber passed his Magister Artium examination in 1972 at the University of Konstanz in the subjects of sociology, political science and psychology . From 1972 to 1973 he was a qualified research assistant at the Chair of Sociology at the University of Mannheim .

Between 1973 and 1977 he was an assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology at the University of Cologne , from 1977 to 1980 assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology at the University of Cologne. In the period from 1973 to 1977 he was also a research assistant in the HIWED project (Historical Indicators of Western European Democracies) at the University of Mannheim. His doctorate as Dr. phil. Alber graduated in 1979 in sociology and political science from the University of Mannheim.

With his habilitation at the same university, Jens Alber obtained his venia legendi for sociology in 1986 . From 1980 to 1983 he was a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in the research project "The Development of the Western European Welfare States Since the Second World War", from 1983 to 1986 assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology in Cologne. From 1986 to 1991 Jens Alber worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. In 1991 he took over the chair for social policy at the Faculty of Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz, which he held until 2001. From 2002 to 2011 Jens Alber was director of the "Inequality and Social Integration" department at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin and Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin .

Jens Alber was a member of the editorial committee of the European Sociological Review and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Social Policy .

research

At the University of Konstanz, Alber's focus was on comparative welfare state research . Among other things, he examined the susceptibility of social policy programs to cuts in an international comparison. Furthermore, the stability of democracy in Germany and possible xenophobic mobilization potentials were the focus of his work.

In his work at the Social Research Center in Berlin, Alber increasingly relied on survey-based studies. He compared, among other things, European social models with the US social model and their impact on the quality of life of citizens.

Teaching

At the University of Konstanz, Alber taught, among other things, introduction to social policy, theories of the welfare state, social policy in international comparison and social policy as a political decision-making process.

At the Free University of Berlin, Alber taught, among other things, social structures of European societies in comparison, Europeanization of European societies, gender as a dimension of social inequality in Europe and society and politics in the USA.

Fonts (selection)

  • From Poor House to Welfare State: Analysis of Development d. Social Insurance in Western Europe , Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1982, ISBN 978-3-593-33134-8 .
  • The health system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Development, structure and functionality , campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1992
  • The welfare state in the Federal Republic 1950-1983 , Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1996, ISBN 978-3593338965
  • with Martin Schölkopf: Senior Policy: The Social Situation of Older People in Germany and Europe, G + B Faculties, Amsterdam 1999
  • with Tony Fahey and Chiara Saraceno: Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union , Routledge, London / New York 2008
  • with Agnes Blome and Wolfgang Keck: Generational relationships in the welfare state , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Jens Alber at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). polsoz.fu-berlin.de, accessed on March 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d University of Konstanz: Research report 1998 ( Memento from March 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Alber, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947