Marc Szydlik

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Marc Szydlik (born February 15, 1965 in Maxhütte ) is a German sociologist and university professor .

Life

After studying in Hamburg and Berlin from 1984 to 1989 , Szydlik received his doctorate in 1993, as a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development , at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Labor Income and Work Structures - An Analysis for the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic . From 1993 to 2000 he was, with short breaks for stays as a visiting scholar at Harvard University , London School of Economics and Columbia University , Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Institute of Sociology at Martin Kohli . It was there that he completed his habilitation in the field of sociology in 1998 .

2000 took Szydlik the reputation of the Institute for methods of empirical social research at the newly founded State Faculty of the University of Erfurt in. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs used Experts Commission on the situation and future of the family , which the Family Report of the Federal Government created. In 2004, Szydlik followed another call to the professorship of sociology at the University of Zurich . Since 2005 he has headed the research group Work, Generation, Social Structure (AGES) and from 2005 to 2013 he was director of the Sociological Institute at the University of Zurich .

Szydlik has been a visiting scholar abroad several times, including at Harvard , Oxford and Stanford , and is a member of the advisory boards of various specialist journals .

Research priorities

Szydlik focuses on the analysis of social structure , in particular he deals with the subjects of life course , work , generations , as well as empirical social and economic research .

Publications (selection)

  • The segmentation of the labor market in the Federal Republic of Germany - an empirical analysis with data from the socio-economic panel. Berlin 1990: edition sigma. ISBN 3-89404-605-8 .
  • Income from work and work structures - An analysis for the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1993: edition sigma. ISBN 3-89404-803-4 .
  • Lifelong solidarity? Generational relationships between adult children and parents. Opladen 2000: Leske + Budrich. ISBN 3-8100-2507-0 .
  • ed. with Martin Kohli : Generations in family and society. Opladen 2000: Leske + Budrich. ISBN 3-8100-2598-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Szydlik, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Maxhütte