Speakers


ALBER, Jens


Curriculum

Since 2002, Jens is director of the department "Inequality and social integration" at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Before, he has been teaching social policy at the University Konstanz. From 1986 till 1991, he worked as scientific researcher at the Max-Plank Institute for Social Research in Cologne. In 1986 he got his habilitation at the Mannheim University (venia legendi for sociology). He worked as assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology in Cologne from 1983 till 1986 after he had worked as Research Fellow at European University Institute in Florence on the research project "The Development of the Western European Welfare State since the Second World War". He gained his Dr. phil. from the Mannheim University in 1979.

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Measuring the Emotional Economy in Europe

Jens Alber introduced some of the basic dilemmas of social measurement. Though examples he illustrated how wildly different pictures can be drawn of the contemporary society based on empirical information. He suggest to concentrate European empirical research around four pressing issues or concepts: fertility, generation gap, immigrant societies, and social exclusion.

References

http://wwwora.uni-konstanz.de:8890/owa_fors/owa/Pout.show_Pr_D?FP_Nr_=566/00
http://www.forum-dl21.de/FILE/download/2002/arbeitsoziales/sozial/wzb98s.pdf
http://www.ivbl.uni-hannover.de/~fgg/sggh/sggh5.pdf


Publications

http://home.t-online.de/home/Rogahn/empfehl2.htm#sozialelage