Nicole Burzan

Nicole Burzan (* 1971 in Letmathe , now Iserlohn ) is a German sociologist and university professor.

Live and act

academic career

From 1990 to 1995 Nicole Burzan studied social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1996 to 1998 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Fernuniversität in Hagen , before doing research and teaching there between 1998 and 2003 as a research assistant at Werner Fuchs-Heinritz's department of general sociology .

In 2002 she received her doctorate from the Distance University in Hagen. rer. soc ( summa cum laude ). From 2003 to 2007 she was junior professor for 'Social Structure Analysis and Empirical Methods' at the Institute for Sociology at the Fernuniversität in Hagen, before she was professor for 'Sociology of Social Inequalities' at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Dortmund from 2005 to 2007 . Nicole Burzan has been professor for 'Sociology of Social Inequalities' at the Technical University of Dortmund since 2007.

Committee activities

Burzan is the managing director of the Institute for Sociology at TU Dortmund University. From 2013 to 2019 she was a member of the board of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) , from 2017 to 2019 she was chairman.

Research priorities

Nicole Burzan's research focuses on the areas of sociology of social inequality, sociological theories, methods of empirical social research (combining methods), sociology of time and cultural sociology.

Projects

• Between 2003 and 2005 Nicole Burzan and Uwe Schimank led the research project 'Inclusion Profiles' at the Distance University in Hagen, funded by the DFG.
• From 2011 to 2014 she headed the project 'Strategies for action in an' insecure 'middle of society. A cohort comparison ' at the Technical University of Dortmund, funded by the DFG.
• From 2014 to 2017 she led the DFG-funded project 'The Dramaturgy of the' Experience-Oriented 'Museum' together with Diana Lengersdorf (Bielefeld University).
• Other projects examine the role of service staff in cultural education in museums (2016-2019, funded by the BMBF) and the intergenerational status reproduction in middle-class families (2018-2020, funded by the DFG, in cooperation with Berthold Vogel, SOFI Göttingen).

Books

• 2002: Organization of time in the everyday life of older people. An investigation into the context of biography and social inequality. Leske + Budrich, Opladen.
• 2005: Quantitative Methods in Cultural Studies. An introduction. UVK (UTB), Constance.
• 2007: Quantitative research in social structure analysis. Application examples from a methodological perspective. (With contributions by Kerstin Rückert and Brigitta Lökenhoff.) VS, Wiesbaden.
• 2008: with Brigitta Lökenhoff, Uwe Schimank and Nadine M. Schöneck: The audience of society: Inclusion relationships and inclusion profiles in Germany. VS, Wiesbaden
• 2010: Dynamics (in) the social center. (Ed. With Peter A. Berger). VS, Wiesbaden.
• 2011: Social Inequality. An introduction to the central theories, Wiesbaden: VS, 4th (revised) edition (1st edition 2004; 2nd edition 2005, 3rd (revised) edition 2007); awarded the René König Textbook Prize 2004 of the DGS.
• 2014: with Silke Kohrs and Ivonne Küsters: The middle of society: Safer than expected? Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel.
• 2014: Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd edition (Ed. With Günter Endruweit and Gisela Trommsdorff). UVK (UTB), Constance.
• 2015: Compact quantitative methods. UVK (UTB), Constance.
• 2016: Material analyzes. Methodological questions in projects, (Ed. With Ronald Hitzler and Heiko Kirschner), Wiesbaden: VS. [1]
• 2016: got down to the dog. Interdisciplinary approaches to a relationship (ed. With Ronald Hitzler). Wiesbaden: VS. [2]
• 2016: Methods plural research. Chances and problems of mixed methods, Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa. Series 'Standards of standardized and non-standardized social research', (ed. By Nicole Burzan, Paul Eisewicht and Ronald Hitzler) [3]

Web links

• Website of the Sociology of Social Inequalities Department, Institute for Sociology, TU Dortmund
• Further information on the project 'Action strategies of an' insecure 'middle of society. A cohort comparison '
• Further information on the ongoing project 'The Dramaturgy of the' Experience-Oriented 'Museum'