Mechthild Bereswill

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Mechthild Bereswill (* 1961 ) is a German sociologist whose work focuses on women and gender studies . She has also made contributions to prison sociology. She is a professor at the University of Kassel .

Career

After graduating from the Staatlich-Neusprachliches Gymnasium in Bendorf and working for several years in social psychiatry , Bereswill first studied social work at the University of Northeast Lower Saxony in Lüneburg and then sociology , political science and social psychology at the University of Hanover . She passed her exams as a social scientist in 1990 and received her doctorate in 1995 . She then worked for a year as a research assistant at the archive of the German women's movement in Kassel and then from 1998 to 2004 as a research assistant at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony . After visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg and the University of Hildesheim , Bereswill received his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Hanover ( license to teach sociology). After a visiting professorship at the Danish University of Roskilde and a substitute professorship for sociology of gender relations at the University of Frankfurt am Main , Bereswill has been professor for the sociology of social differentiation and socioculture at the University of Kassel since December 2007.

From 2004 to 2010, Bereswill was the spokesperson for the women's and gender studies section of the German Sociological Society . She is active in the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Services

Bereswill researched the connections between gender, deviance and experience of imprisonment, with a particular focus on the biographical development of young men. Using the methods of qualitative social research , she investigated the biographical processing of prison sentences. In doing so, she gains a contradictory picture: the authoritarian institution of the penal system is rejected, but is also experienced as an opportunity to be able to integrate better into society in the future. In addition, the prison is thematized as a violent space in which the individual must defend himself and not show any weakness. In summary, Bereswill thinks that the prison is a contradicting integration space, in which prisoners constantly balance between struggles for self-assertion and wishes for development.

Selection of the writings as editor

  • Research topic prison system , Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7474-8
  • Juvenile prison system in Germany , Mönchengladbach: Forum-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-930982-88-9
  • Development under control? Biographical drafts and everyday behavioral patterns of young inmates , Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0070-5
  • Changing fatherhood. Multidisciplinary analyzes and perspectives from a gender-theoretical point of view , Weinheim: Juventa-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7799-1375-7
  • Dimensions of the gender category: The masculinity case , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89691-222-0
  • Detours in work. The meaning of activity in the biographies of young men with prison experience , Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3196-4
  • In the crisis? Masculinity in the 21st Century , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-231-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Mechthild Bereswill: Biographical hurdles and transitions between inside and outside. A qualitative study on the effects of juvenile punishment.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lecture at the “Practitioners' Meeting for Juvenile Prisoners” on October 26, 2005 in Stade.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dvjj.de  
personal data
SURNAME Bereswill, Mechthild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961