European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Peter Abell
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Interdisciplinary Institute of Management
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
phone: 00 44 (0) 20 7955 7357
fax: 00 44 (0) 20 7955 6887
p.abell@lse.ac.uk
Secretary: Sharon Barnes
phone: 00 44 (0) 20 7955 6559
fax: 00 44 (0) 20 7955 6887
s.l.barnes@lse.ac.uk
He was formerly Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Surrey and Birmingham. He is the author of several books on methodology and individual participation and co-operation.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Marzio Barbagli
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Università di Bologna
Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione
Via Filippo Re, 6
40126 Bologna
Italy
phone: 00 39 051 2091609
Marzio.barbagli@unibo.it
Marzio Barbagli, 1938, Professor: University of Bologna, Italy. Consultant of Istat, Ministry of Interior, Istituto Cattaneo, Il Mulino. He has been fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley University, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and invited professor at the Universities of Edinburgh, Barcelona, Sidney, Stanford, Guadalajara,. He has published notably: "Educating for Unemployment. Politics, Labor Market and the School System, Italy, 1859-1973"(1982), "Sotto lo stesso tetto. Mutamenti della famiglia in Italia dal XV al XX secolo"(1984), "Italian family history" (1990), "Omosessuali in Italia"(2001), "Immigrazione e reati in Italia"(2002) and, as editor, the three volumes "The History of the European Family"(2001-2003).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Chair of Sociology I
Lichtenheidestrasse 11
Postfach 1549
96045 Bamberg
Germany
phone: 0049 (0)951 - 863 - 2596
fax: 0049 (0)951 - 863 - 2597
soziologie1@sowi.uni-bamberg.de
hpb3007@t-online.de
Hans-Peter Blossfeld was born in 1954 in Munich. He studied sociology, economics, social statistics and computer science at the University of Regensburg (1976-80), took his doctorate in economics at the University of Mannheim (1984) and his Habilitation in sociology at the Free University of Berlin (1987). He is Professor of Sociology (Chair in Theory and Empirical Analysis of Social Structures and Economics Systems) at the University of Bielefeld. He was formerly Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence (1989-92) and Professor of Sociology (Chair in Social Statistics and Sociological Research Methods) at the University of Bremen (1992-98). He was a research scientist at the VASMA (Vergleichende Analysen der Sozialstruktur mit Massendaten) project at the University of Mannheim (1980-84) and senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and education in Berlin (1984-89). In the academic year 1988-89 he was a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Study (NIAS) in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. He has also taught and held visiting positions universities all over the world. Since 1990 he has been editor of the European Sociological Review. He has published twelve books and over one hundred articles on social inequality, youth, family educational sociology, labour market research, demography, social stratification and mobility, the modern methods of quantitative social research and statistical methods for longitudinal analysis. He directed the GLOBALIFE project, a major multidisciplinary and international comparative research project at Bielefeld University. Since 2002 he is professor of sociology at the University of Bamberg
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Raymond Boudon
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Universite de Paris - Sorbonne
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
54 Bol Raspail
75006 Paris
France
phone: 00 33 (0) 1 49 54 21 55
raymond.c.boudon@gmail.com
Raymond Boudon, 1934. Professor: University of Paris-Sorbonne. Member: Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human Sciences of St Petersburg, Central European Academy of Arts and Sciences. Has been fellow at the Center for advanced study in the behavioural sciences, and invited professor notably at Harvard, Oxford, and the Universities of Geneva, Chicago, and Stockholm. Has published notably: Education, opportunity and social inequality (1974), The logic of social action (1981), Theories of social change (1986), The Analysis of ideology (1989), The Art of self-persuasion (1994), The Origin of Values (2000).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Vincent Buskens
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology/ICS
Universiteit Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 30 253 1848
v.buskens@uu.nl
Vincent Buskens is Assistant Professor ar the Department of Sociology / ICS, Utrecht University and Professor of Empirical Law at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research focuses on formal and informal institutions to mitigate trust relations as well as the dynamics of social networks. To research these questions he applies a wide variety of theoretical and empirical tools including game theory, social simulation, laboratory experiments, vignette experiments, and survey research. Publications include, Social Networks and Trust (2002, Kluwer), Dynamics of Networks If Everyone Strives for Structural Holes (with Arnout van de Rijt, 2008, American Journal of Sociology), eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World (ed. with K.S. Cook, C. Snijders, and C. Cheshire, Russell Sage Foundation).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Cherkaoui
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Groupe d'Etude des Mèthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
54 Boulevard Raspail
75270 Paris
France
phone: 00 33 (0) 1 49 54 21 55
fax: 00 33 (0) 1 42 22 33 66
mcherkaoui@yahoo.fr
Mohamed Cherkaoui is Director of Groupe d'Etude des Mèthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique (GEMAS) at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. His research interests include social stratification, mobility, education, research methods, epistemology and social theory.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Ralf Dahrendorf
Professor Dahrendorf is Honorary Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH
Forschungsprofessur
"Soziale und politische Theorie"
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 30 25491 503
fax: 0049 (0) 30 25491 514
hahn@wz-berlin.de
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Andreas Diekmann
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Soziologie
Scheuchzerstrasse 68/70
ETH-Zentrum, SEW E 26
CH-8092 Zürich
phone: 00 41 (0) 44 632 55 59
fax: 00 41 (0) 44 632 10 54
diekmann@soz.gess.ethz.ch
Andreas Diekmann, born 1951 in Lübeck, Germany. Studies of Sociology and Psychology at the Universities of Hamburg and Vienna. Doctoral Degree at the University of Hamburg 1979, Habilitation at the University of Munich 1987. Scientific Director at ZUMA, Mannheim, 1987-89. Professor for Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Mannheim, 1989-90. Professor for Empirical Social Research and Social Statistics at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Research areas: Rational choice and experimental game theory. Research methods and statistics. Environmental sociology, demography, and labour market research.
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Sonja Drobnič
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Hamburg
Institute of Sociology
Allende-Platz 1
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
phone: 00 49-(0)40-42838-4659
fax: 00 49-(0)40-42838-2499
sonja.drobnic(at)uni-hamburg.de
Sonja Drobnič is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg. She was Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and research fellow at KU Leuven and Stockholm University. Her current research focuses on social stratification and gender inequalities, job quality and work-family issues, social networks, and life-course research and methods. Publications include Careers of Couples in Contemporary Societies. From Male Breadwinner to Dual-Earner Families (ed. with H.-P. Blossfeld, 2001, Oxford University Press) and Dividing the Domestic. Men, Women and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective (ed. with J. Treas, 2010, Stanford University Press).
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Robert Erikson
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Swedish Institute for Social Research
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
phone: 00 46 8 162093
fax: 00 46 8 154670
robert.erikson@sofi.su.se
Robert Erikson is professor of sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. His research interests concern social stratification, education, family, and health, especially the study of individual change over the life course and how it can be understood with regard to individual and structural conditions. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, Academia Europaea and honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was in 1997-2001 chairman of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation. Selected publications include The Constant Flux - A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, (with John H. Goldthorpe); Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries, (edited with E. J. Hansen, S. Ringen and H. Uusitalo); Can Education be Equalized? Sweden in Comparative Perspective, (edited with Jan O. Jonsson); as well as several articles in peer reviewed journals
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Esser
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Universität Mannheim
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Universität Mannheim
D-68131 Mannheim
Germany
phone: 00 49 (0) 621 181 2023
fax: 00 49 (0) 621 181 2021
esser@sowi.uni-mannheim.de
Hartmut Esser was born in 1943 in Elend/Sachsen-Anhalt. He studied Economics and Sociology at the University of Cologne. At the moment he occupies a chair in Sociology and Philosophy of Science at Mannheim University. The most important of his books are: "Soziale Regelmässigkeiten des Befragtenverhaltens" (1975); "Wissenschaftstheorie (Vol. 2) (1977); "Aspekte der Wanderungssoziologie" (1980); "Generation und Indentität" (ed. with Jürgen Friedrichs) (1990); "Alltagshandeln und Verstehen. Zum Verhältnis von erklärender und verstehender Soziologie am Beispiel von Alfred Schultz und Rational Choice" (1991); " Modellierung sozialer Prozesse (ed. with Klaus Troitzsch) (1991); "Soziologie. Allgemeine Grundlagen" (1993); "Soziologie. Spezielle Grundlagen (Vol. 6) (1999-2001).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Anuška Ferligoj
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Social Sciences
Kardeljeva pl. 5
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
phone: 00 386 (1) 5805 281
anuska.ferligoj@fdv.uni-lj.si
Anuška Ferligoj, 1947, Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, head of the graduate program on Statistics at the University of Ljubljana. She is editor of the journal Advances in Methodology and Statistics (Metodoloski zvezki) since 2004 and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Classification, Social Networks, Statistic in Transition, Methodology, Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropology and Related Sciences. She was a Fulbright scholar in 1990 and visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She was awarded the title of Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia in 1997. Her interests include multivariate analysis (constrained and multicriteria clustering), social networks (measurement quality and blockmodeling), and survey methodology (reliability and validity of measurement). She is the coauthor of the monography "Generalized Blockmodeling" published by Cambridge University Press (2005).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Erhard Friedberg
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Center for the Sociology of Organisations
19 Rue Amelie
75007 Paris
France
phone: 00 33 (0) 1 40 62 65 70
fax: 00 33 (0) 1 47 05 35 55
e.friedberg@cso.cnrs.fr
Secretary: Anne Toppani
a.toppani@cso.cnrs.fr
Austrian, born in 1942, is Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, a CNRS research laboratory, and Director of the PhD program in sociology of the Paris Institute of Political Science.
His present interests are: History of organizational thought, study of the new modes of rationalization and reform in both private and public organizations.
Among his books are: L'Analyse sociologique des organisations, 1972, Actors and Systems, 1977 (in collaboration with Michel Crozier), En Quête d'Universités, 1989 (in collaboration with Christine Musselin), L'Etat face aux universités en France et en Allemagne, 1993 (in collaboration with Christine Musselin), and his latest book Le Pouvoir et la Règle, 1993 (in English, Local Orders, Dynamics of Organized Action, 1997).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Research Institute for Sociology
Universität zu Köln
Greinstrasse 2
D-50939 Köln
Germany
phone: 00 49 (0) 221 470 24 09
fax: 00 49 (0) 221 470 50 25
friedrichs@wiso.uni-koeln.de
Jürgen Friedrichs, born in 1938, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cologne. He is senior editor of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. His major fields of research are rational choice theory, the decline and revitalisation of cities, urban poverty and neighbourhood effects. He has published numerous books and articles in scientific journals. His most recent books are: "Cities in the 1990s" (1998); "The Individualisation Hypothesis" (1998); "Life in Distressed Neighbourhoods" (2000), he has co-edited (with J. Blasius an G. Galster) "Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects" (2009).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Diego Gambetta
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Nuffield College
Sociology Group
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
phone: 0044 1865-2 78698
fax: 0044 1865-2 78621
diego.gambetta@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Diego Gambetta was born in Turin, Italy in 1952. He received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1983. From 1984 to 1991 he was first Junior and then Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. From 1995 until 2003 he was Reader in Sociology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. In 2003 he became Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College. In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
His research interests are in Analytical Sociology; Signalling Theory and applications; Trust and mimicry; and Organised Crime.
His books include: Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education (1987); Trust. Making and Breaking Co-operative Relations (1988, Ed.); The Sicilian Mafia. The Business of Private Protection (1993); Streetwise. How taxi drivers establish their customers trustworthiness (2005, with Heather Hamill); Making sense of suicide missions (2005, ed.).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. John H. Goldthorpe
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Oxford
Manor Road
Oxford, OX1 3UQ
United Kingdom
phone: 0044 1865 286 170
fax: 0044 1865 286 171
john.goldthorpe@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Secretary: Lin Sorrell
lin.sorrell@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
John Goldthorpe is an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Member of the British Academy. Author of several books on social mobility and social class.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Anthony Heath
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Nuffield College
Sociology Group
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
phone: 00 44 (0) 1865 286 172
fax: 0044 (0) 1865 286 171
anthony.heath@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Anthony Heath is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He is head of the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of CREST. His research interests include national devolution, nationalism and election practise.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Peter Hedström
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Nuffield College
Oxford University
New Road
Oxford OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
phone: 00 44 1865 278 636
fax: 00 44 1865 278 621
Mobil: 0044 7747 467830
peter.hedstrom@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Peter Hedström received his PhD at Harvard University in 1987. He then took a post as assistant professor at the University of Chicago and in 1989 he accepted his current position as professor of sociology at Stockholm University. He has been editor of Acta Sociologica and associate editor of American Journal of Sociology and Rationality and Society, and he is the past president of the Swedish Sociological Association. His main areas of interest within sociology are theories of social action, network analysis, and computational modelling. Lately his empirical research has mostly focused on the diffusion of social movements.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Gudmund Hernes
Honorary Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
International Institute for Educational Planning
Documentation Centre (4th floor)
7-9, rue Eugene Delacroix
75116 Paris
France
phone: 0033 1 4503 7780
fax: 0033 1 4072 88366
gudmund.hernes@fafo.no
gudmund.hernes@bi.no
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Johannes J. Huinink
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
EMPAS- Institute for Applied and Empirical Sociology
University of Bremen
FVG Mitte
Celsiusstr.
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
phone. +49 421 218-2163 huinink@empas.uni-bremen.de
Johannes J, Huinink was born in 1952 in Greven, Westfalia, Germany.He studies Mathematics and Sociology at the universities of Münster and Bielefeld;he received his PhD at the University of Bielefeld (1986) and his Habilitation at the University of Berlin (1994). He held chairs of Sociology at the universities of Leipzig and Rostock he holds a chair in Sociology (Social Structure) at the University of Bremen since 2003.
His research interests lie in the fields of theoretical model building and empirical research in Sociology. He started his academic career with conceptual work on issues of Mathematical Sociology (modelling social processes and sociological multi-level analysis) and empirical research methods as well as methods of sociological data analysis. He particularly investigated fertility patterns and their change between cohorts. He broadened this cohort analytical research agenda moving to life course analysis and using individual level information from retrospective surveys and panel studies. Research fields are now family dynamics, migration, occupational careers, and social mobility.
He is co-editor of BIOS, Comparative Population Studies, and Zeitschrift für Familienforschung. Among his publications are: Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation. American Journal of Sociology (with H.-P. Blossfeld) (1991); Warum noch Familie? (1995); Prospects of Labor Division within Pair Relationships: Housework in Eastern and Western Germany. In: S. Drobnic and J. Treas, Judith (eds.): Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective (with A. Röhler) (2010); he has edited (with W. Heinz and A. Weymann) The Life Course Reader: Individuals and Society across Time. (2009).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Jan O. Jonsson
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
Sweden
phone: +46 8 162654
janne.jonsson@sofi.su.se
http://www.sofi.su.se/~joj/
Jan O. Jonsson is professor of sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and director of the Swedish Level of Living Surveys. His research interests are social stratification, especially educational inequality and social mobility; sociology of the family; and life-course studies.
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Dr. Frank Kalter
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Mannheim
D-68131 Mannheim
Germany
phone: +49 621 181 3066
kalter@uni-mannheim.de
Frank Kalter, Prof., Dr. phil., is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim since 2009. He studied mathematics and sociology at the University of Cologne, and received his doctorate and habilitation in sociology from the University of Mannheim. He held a chair of sociology at the Institute of Sociology in Leipzig from 2004-2008. He was a visiting fellow at the Office of Population Research (OPR), Princeton University, and at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and "Reinhard Wippler visiting professor" at the University of Utrecht. Frank Kalter is a member of the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) for the 2008-2010 term. His major research interests include migration, integration of ethnic minorities, methods, and formal models. He is the author of "Wohnortwechsel in Deutschland" (1997), "Chancen, Fouls und Abseitsfallen" (2003), and "Migration und Integration" (ed., 2008).
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Dr. Irena Kogan
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Science
Chair of Sociology
University of Bamberg
D-68131 Mannheim
Germany
phone: +49 951 863 2675
Irena.Kogan@uni-bamberg.de
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/?id=17938
Irena Kogan holds a chair in Sociology at the University of Bamberg and is an external fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. She received her training in Pedagogigs (Ukraine), Sociology and Anthropology (Israel), and Social Sciences (Germany). Her research interests include ethnicity and migration, structural assimilation of immigrants, social stratification and mobility and transition form school-to-work. She is the author of a number of articles in international journals dealing with immigrants’ labour market integration and social stratification. Her latest publications are: Irena Kogan. 2007. Working through Barriers: Host country institutions and immigrant labour market performance in Europe. Dordrecht: Springer; Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel und Clemens Noelke (Eds), 2008, Europe Enlarged: A Handbook of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. Currently Irena Kogan is co-directing a project ‘Young Immigrants in the German and Israeli Educational Systems’ (financed by the BMBF) and a project ‘Educational Systems and Labour Markets in central and Eastern Europe’ (financed by the Volkswagen foundation). She is also involved in a number of other projects dealing with the issues of migration and immigrant integration, education-job linkages, and methodological issues of educational research.
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Dr. Emmanuel Lazega
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Université Paris-Dauphine
Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
75775 PARIS Cedex 16
France
phone: +33 (0)1 44 05 42 03
emmanuel.lazega@dauphine.fr
Emmanuel Lazega is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Dauphine, a member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO-CNRS) and a member of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for Internationalization of Law. His current research focuses on social, intra- and inter-organizational networks in the economy, with a substantive focus on the social control of business and a methodological focus on the multi-level and dynamic nature of these networks. Publications include Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies, (Edward Elgar, 2002, edited with Olivier Favereau), The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation Among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership (Oxford University Press, 2001), Micropolitics of Knowledge: Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups (Aldine-de Gruyter, 1992).
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Siegwart M. Lindenberg
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology / ICS
University of Groningen
Grote Rozenstrasse 31
NL-9712 TG Groningen
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 50 363 7398
fax: 0031 (0) 50 363 6226
S.M.Lindenberg@rug.nl
www.gmw.rug.nl/~lindenb
SSiegwart Lindenberg, Ph.D. (Harvard), is Professor of Cognitive Sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests lie in the development, test and application of theories of “social rationality” that deal with the influence of the social environment on social behavior via its influence on cognitive and motivational processes (goal-framing), especially on the satisfaction of need-related goals and on processes of self-regulation. For more information see his homepage at www.gmw.rug.nl/~lindenb
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Arne Mastekaasa
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Oslo
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
Postboks 1096 Blindern
0317 OSLO
phone: +47-22856757
arne.mastekaasa@sosgeo.uio.no
http://www.iss.uio.no/instituttet/ansatte/arnema-eng.xml
Arne Mastekaasa, 1955. Professor, University of Oslo. Professor Mastekaasa is a former editor of the journal Acta Sociologica and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marriage and Family and Social Indicators Research. He has published in fields such as social inequality and mobility, labour market issues, marriage, and health in European and American journals like European Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Science and Medicine, and Work and Occupations.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Yale University
Department of Sociology
Chair and Director
Center of Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE)
P.O. Box 208265
140 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8265
USA
phone: 001 203 432 6332 / 3320
mayer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
uli.mayer@yale.edu
Karl Ulrich Mayer is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and head of the Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course. His research interests include: higher education and labour markets; social stratification and mobility; sociology and social policy of the life course; problems of vocational training and academic careers and university reform.
European Academy of Sociology
Professor Melinda Mills
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
ICS Faculty of Social and behavioural Sciences University of Groningen Rozenstraat 31
NL-9712 TG Groningen
The Netherlands
phone: +31 50 363-6253, -6216
m.c.mills@rug.nl
Melinda Mills is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is the Treasurer/Secretary of the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR), and Member of the Board of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). She was the Editor of International Sociology from 2003-2010. She has published books on event history analysis in R, globalization, uncertainty and the life course and journals such as the European Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Studies, European Journal of Population and Demographic Research. Research interests include: event history analysis, life course and family research, nonstandard work schedules and cross-national comparative research.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Opp
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Institut für Soziologie
Universität Leipzig
Burgstrasse 21
D-04109 Leipzig
Germany
phone: 00 49 (0) 34 17 435 690
fax: 00 49 (0) 34 19 735 669
karldopp@aol.com
Karl-Dieter Opp is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His areas of interest include collective action and political protest, rational choice theory, and the emergence and effects of norms and institutions. He has been a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study 1976/77, the Theodor Heuss Professor 1991/92 at the New School for Social Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation 1996/97.
Published books in English are: The Rationality of Political Protest (1989, Westview Press); (editor with M. Hechter, R.) Social Institutions. Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects (1990, Aldine de Gruyter); (co-author, with P. Voss and C. Gern) The Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution. East Germany 1989 (1995, Michigan University Press); (editor with M. Hechter) Social Norms (2001, Russell Sage Foundation).
He has written numerous articles that were published in scholarly journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science. Among other things, he is currently engaged in a book project on explaining collective political action, based on a four wave panel referring to the situation in East Germany in 1989, 1993, 1996, and 1998. His areas of interest include collective action and political protest, rational choice theory, the emergence and effects of norms and institutions, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Trond Petersen
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley
CA 94720-1980
United States of America
phone: 00 1 510 642 6423
fax: 00 1 510 642 0659
trond@haas.berkeley.edu
Trond Petersen is Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Sociology and the Haas School of Business. His research interests include gender discrimination in organisations, the gender wage gap and hiring policies.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Werner Raub
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Universiteit Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 30 253 47 38
fax: 00 31 (0) 30 253 44 05
w.raub@uu.nl
http://www.fss.uu.nl/soc/raub
Werner Raub is a Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Member of the Board of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and Scientific Director of ICS-Utrecht. Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010-2013). Royal decoration Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (2009); elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2007). Visiting appointments: University of Chicago (1992 and 1998), University of Berne (1994 and 1997), Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (1990), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS; 2001/2). Publications in Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpschologie, Rationality and Society, Zeitschrift für Soziologie.
His research interests include co-operation theory for dyadic relations, small groups, and collective action problems, game theory and its applications in the social sciences, rational choice, organization studies, philosophy of science.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Luca Ricolfi
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Università degli studi di Torino
Dipartimento di Scienzi Sociali
Via S Ottavio 50
10124 Torino
Italy
phone: 00 39 (0) 1 16 70 26 06
fax: 00 39 (0) 1 16 70 26 12
l.ricolfi@cisi.unito.it
Luca Ricolfi is Professor of 'Metodologia della ricerca psicosociale' at the University of Turin. His research interests include political influence and corruption, labour markets and theory of action.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Stein Ringen
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Oxford
Green Templeton College
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
OX1 3UQ
UK
phone: 00 44 (1865) 281168
fax: 00 44 (1865) 278725
stein.ringen@green.ox.ac.uk
Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He holds the degrees of dr. philos. at the University of Oslo, docent at the University of Stockholm, and doctor honoris causa at Masaryk University in Brno. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships in Berlin, Paris, Barbados, Prague, Brno, Sydney, Jerusalem, London and at Harvard University. He is a member of the GEMAS research centre of the CNRS and Université de Paris Sorbonne and is adjunct professor at Lillehammer University College in Norway. His research interests are in welfare theory, political philosophy, inequality, poverty and redistribution, family policy, comparative social policy, democracy and comparative government. His current research is on democratic quality and good government. Recent books: What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government (Princeton 2006, also in Norwegian and Korean), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Brown: How a Strong Government was Defeated by a Weak System of Governance (Oxford 2009), The Liberal Vision and Other Essays on Democracy and Progress (Oxford 2007), The Possibility of Politics (3rd ed. 2006) and Citizens, Families and Reform (2nd ed. 2005). A co-authored book, The Korean State: A Social Policy Analysis, is forthcoming on Oxford University Press 2010.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Tamas Rudas
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Statistics
Faculty of Social Sciences
Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE)
Pazmany P. s. 1/A
1117 Budapest
Hungary
phone: +36 1 372 2500 / 6282
e-mail: rudas@taki.hu
website: http://statisztika.tatk.elte.hu/tanszeki_honlap/Rudas_Tamas.htm
Tamas Rudas was educated as a mathematician in probability and mathematical statistics (MSc and Dr. rer. nat., ELTE, CSc, HAS) and obtained further qualifications in sociology (Dr. habil., ELTE, DSc, HAS). He was Founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of ELTE and now is the Head of the Department of Statistics and also director of the MSc Programme in Survey Statistics. Professor Rudas is the Academic Director of TARKI Social Research Institute in Budapest and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Washington. Currently he also serves as Vice President of the European Association of Methodology and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Sociology, HAS. His research concentrates on statistical methods for the analysis of categorical data and, in general, on the methodology of social sciences. He published in the Annals of Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Biometrika, Sociological Methodology, Quality and Quantity. He authored / edited three volumes published by Sage.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schluchter
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Institut für Soziologie
Universität Heidelberg
Sandgasse 9
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
phone: 00 49 (0) 6221 54 2976
fax: 00 49 (0) 6221 54 2996
wolfgang.schluchter@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de
Wolfgang Schluchter was Vice President of the University of Erfurt and Dean of the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Study and of the Faculty of Social and Political Science of the University of Erfurt. For four years he was Vice President of the German Sociological Association. He has been Director of the Institute of Sociology since 1976. Professor Schluchter is Co-editor of the Collected Works of Max Weber and of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie. His major fields of research include sociological theory, the sociology of religion, political sociology and comparative cultural analysis.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Frans Stokman
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Groningen
Department of Sociology
Grote Rozenstraat 31
9712 TG Groningen
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 50 363 62 59
fax: 00 31 (0) 50 363 62 26
f.n.stokman@rug.nl
www.stokman.org
Frans Stokman is Professor of the Methodology of Social Research at the University of Groningen since 1977. His main present interests are: the analysis of informal social networks; the analysis and strategic intervention in complex (political) decision making; social interventions to promote citizen participation in neighborhoods and other forms of joint production, like joint production of decentralized sustainable energy and heating by citizens and local plants of organizations. He received the Georg Simmel Award from the International Network of Social Network Analysis and was invited as keynote speaker at several international conferences. For further information and publications see: www.stokman.org
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Tom Snijders
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Oxford
Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
phone: 00 44 (0)1865 278 599
fax: 00 44 (0) 1865 278 621
snijders@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Tom A.B. Snijders (1949) received his PhD in mathematical statistics at the University of Groningen in 1979. Earlier he was professor of mathematical sociology at the University of Utrecht. He is professor of statistics in the social sciences at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Nuffield College; and also professor of statistics and methodology at the University of Groningen. He received an honorary doctorate in the social sciences from the University of Stockholm, 2005. He is co-editor of Social Networks. His main current research interests are methodology for social network analysis (including development of new procedures, making them available through software, and contributing to their application) and multilevel analysis.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Wout Ultee
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
University of Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Sociology
PO Box 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 24 361 6095
fax: 00 31 (0) 24 361 2399
w.ultee@maw.kun.nl
Wout Ultee is Professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at the Catholic University Nijmegen. His research interests include social inequality, social cohesion and methodology in sociology.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. dr. ir. Tanja van der Lippe
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology / ICS
Universiteit Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 30 253 4156
fax: 00 31 (0) 30 253 4405
t.vanderlippe@uu.nl
http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/defaculteit/organisatie/afdelingen/sociologie/sociologie/medewerkers/tanjavanderlippe/43738main.html
Tanja van der Lippe is Professor of Sociology of Households and Employment Relations at the Department of Sociology and Research School (ICS) of Utrecht University. Her research interests are in the area of work–family linkages in Dutch and other societies, for which she received a number of large-scale grants from the Dutch and European Science Foundation. She has published extensively on the division of labor between spouses, time use and time pressure in a comparative way, and labor market positions of men and women in western and eastern European countries. Her publications include Women’s Employment in a Comparative Perspective (with Liset van Dijk and Aldine de Gruyter, 2001), Competing Claims in Work and Family Life (with Pascale Peters, Edward Elgar, 2007) and articles in journals such as Annual Review of Sociology, Acta Sociologica, European Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Management, and Work, Employment and Society.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Beate Volker
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Department of Sociology/ICS
Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 2
NL 3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0)30-2533467
fax: 0031(0)30-2534405 b.volker@uu.nl
Beate Volker is Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. She was Fellow of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and got a so-called Innovational Research Incentives grant ('Vernieuwingsimpuls', Vidi). Her research focuses on networks and social capital, and in particular on conditions and consequences of networks in neighborhoods and neighborhood communities. Currently, she also studies the downside of social networks and social capital, e.g. negative relationships, loneliness and crime. She published o.a. in Social Networks, Social Forces and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquence. Together with Henk Flap, she edited 'Creation and Returns of Social Capital', Routlegde, 2004.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Rafael Wittek
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Theoretical Sociology — Department Sociology
Universiteit Groningen
Grote Rozenstraat 31
9712 TG Groningen
The Netherlands
phone: 00 31 (0) 50 363 6282
r.p.m.wittek@rug.nl
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/rafaelwittek/
Rafael Wittek is a Professor of Theoretical Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Chair of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and Scientific Director of ICS-Groningen. Past president and current board member of the Research Committee 45 (Rational Choice) of the International Sociological Association. Visiting professor Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) Berlin (2010), Guest professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (2009), visiting appointment Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI) Lugano (2009), visiting lecturer Cornell University (1998), fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, 2001/2). Publications in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, International Sociology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Social Science Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Management and Governance, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Research areas: organization studies, social networks, sociological theory.
European Academy of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Rolf Ziegler
Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
Institute of Sociology
University of Munich
Konradstr. 6
D-80801 München
Germany
Koempelstr. 13
D-82340 Feldafing
Germany
phone: +49 (0)8157-2535
Rolf.Ziegler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Rolf Ziegler, born 1936, has studied economics and sociology at the University of Cologne. He has been Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Cologne (1971-73), Kiel (1973-75), Vienna (1975-78) and Munich (1978-99). In 1999 he retired. In 1983/84 and spring 1990 he was a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Study (NIAS) in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. He is member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His major fields of research are rational choice theory, social network analysis, organizational sociology. Major publications: Theorie und Modell (1972), Networks of Corporate Power. A Comparative Analysis of Ten Coun¬tries (1983, Coed.), Der Erfolg neugegründeter Betriebe.(3rd edition 2007), The Kula Ring of Bronislaw Malinowski. A Simulation Model of the Co-Evolution of an Economic and Ceremonial Exchange System (2007).