Sylka Scholz

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Sylka Scholz (* 1964 ) is a German sociologist .

Life

From 1991 to 1996 she studied cultural studies, sociology and intercultural work at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1996 to 2002 she was a research assistant at the chair for women's studies at the University of Potsdam . After completing his doctorate in Potsdam in 2003, telling masculinity. She taught identity constructions for East German men in 2006/2007 as a visiting professor for international women and gender studies at the University of Hildesheim (Maria Goeppert Mayer program). In 2008 she was a professor of microsociology at the Institute for Sociology at the TU Dresden . After completing his habilitation in 2009 at the Philosophical Faculty in Dresden, diversification and delegitimization of male rule. Studies from the social fields of work, politics and the military in the unified Germany , she was a research assistant and co-project manager of the sub-project Transcendence and Common Sense in Private Lifestyles in the SFB 804 of the TU Dresden from 2009 to 2013 . Since 2014 she has been professor for qualitative methods and microsociology at the FSU Jena .

Her areas of work are gender research, in particular masculinity research and gender images in East and West Germany, family sociology, in particular cultural dimensions of change and methods of qualitative social research, in particular biography research, discourse analysis, documentary image analysis, film analysis as social analysis.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tell masculinity. Life-historical identity constructions of East German men . Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89691-569-X .
  • Sociology of masculinity. Studies from the social fields of work, politics and the military in the unified Germany . Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89691-907-6 .
  • as editor with Cornelia Behnke and Diana Lengersdorf: Knowledge - Method - Gender: grasping the unquestionably given . Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 3-531-19653-7 .
  • as editor with Andreas Heilmann: Caring masculinities? Masculinity in the transformation of capitalist growth societies . Munich 2019, ISBN 3-96238-120-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Sylka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964