Marcel Helbig

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Marcel Helbig (* 1980 in Erfurt ) is a German social scientist and university professor .

Life

Helbig studied social sciences and communication science at the University of Erfurt . There he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree . He then moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he completed a master's degree in social sciences until 2007 . He then went to the Berlin Science Center for Social Research as a research assistant . In 2012 he was with the dissertation Are girls better ?: the changing gender educational success in Germany in the field of sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD .

In October 2015, Helbig accepted an appointment as professor at the Chair of Education and Social Inequality at the University of Erfurt. This chair exists as a cooperation between the University of Erfurt and the Berlin Science Center for Social Research.

Helbig deals with issues of social inequality in the education system, not only taking into account social origin, but also other aspects such as religion, gender and family constellations. In 2018, he and Stefanie Jähnen published a study on the growing socio-spatial divide in German cities. This attracted national attention.

Publications (selection)

  • with Rita Nikolai: The Incomparable: The Change in School Systems in the German Federal States since 1949 , Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2051-6 .
  • In search of the Catholic working-class girl from the country: Religion and educational success in regional, historical and international comparison , VS Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06281-1 .
  • Are girls better ?: The change in gender-specific educational success in Germany , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39754-2 .
  • with Jutta Allmendinger and Christine Puschmann: Women on the go. The Brigitte Study 2008 . Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg 2008.

Web links

  • Marcel Helbig on the website of the University of Erfurt
  • Marcel Helbig in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)
  • Marcel Helbig on the website of the Science Center Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author information in Zeitschrift für Soziologie , Volume 44, Issue 3, June 2015, p. 241.
  2. ↑ Marcel Helbig, Stefanie Jähnen: How fragile is the social architecture of our cities? Trends and analyzes of segregation in 74 German cities , WZB, Berlin 2018 (accessed on September 17, 2018).
  3. ↑ Ghettoization is increasing significantly in major German cities , article on Die Welt from May 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rich here, poor there , article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from May 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ Segregation in Germany: The social division of cities is increasing , Der Tagesspiegel of May 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ Segregation has increased significantly in Germany , article by WDR from May 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Helbig, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt