Main Areas of Work
Processes of the social construction of gender: interaction and gender, occupation and gender; analysis of professionalization processes especially in social and health professions, interaction, organizational and institutional analyses, reconstructive social research.
Okt. 2006 – Feb. 2013 | Member of the University Council |
2004 – 2006 | Dean of the Faculty |
since 1996 | Professor of "Sociology of Gender Relations" at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Tübingen. |
Studied sociology, psychology and education in Münster and Bielefeld, graduated in sociology in 1974 at the University of Bielefeld. Collaborator in the pilot project "Centre for Science and Professional Practice" at the University of Bielefeld, scientific assistant at the University of Bielefeld. Ass. at the Institute for Sociology of the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, 1981 PhD at the University of Erlangen, 1988 Habilitation in Sociology, Habilitation Award of the University of Erlangen; 1991 to 1996 Professor for "Theory, Empiricism and Methods of Social Therapy" at the Department of Social Welfare of the University of Kassel, from 1994 to 1996 Vice-President of the University.