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Zeitschrift für Sozialreform

Issue 2, 2022 is out now. Subscribe to our eTOC-Alert which is published four times a year and gives information about titles, authors and abstracts.

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18.10.2022Colloquium on Health Policy will take place again in winter semester 2022/23

Das Oberthema der Veranstaltungsreihe im Wintersemester 2022/23 lautet „Im dritten Jahr der Pandemie: Das Gesundheitssystem im Stresstest".

05.02.2019More funding for the data service center QUALISERVICE

German Research Foundation supports establishment of a division for anthropological research data

27.11.2018The Election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President Strengthened the Public Support of the European Union Among Europeans

Result of a Study Coauthored by the Sociologist Lara Minkus of SOCIUM together with to Colleagues from Florence and Magdeburg.

Welcome at the SOCIUM

SOCIUM is the only German research institute in social sciences which deals with theoretical and empirical questions of inequality, social policies and their social and political interdependencies. The interdisciplinary research focuses on the social, economic, political, cultural, organizational, legal, historical and sociomedical conditions and effects of social inequality, public social policies and their interdependencies. The research includes a mix of sociology, political and health sciences, economics and legal aspects.

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29.11.2022

COVID-19: Care Dependents and Care Staff Working in Care Homes are the Most Affected

Team of authors from SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, has drawn up the Long-Term Care Report 2022, as commissioned by BARMER

BARMER Long-Term Care Report 2022 was presented to the public today in Berlin. Besides a general report and an evaluation of long-term care policy over the past year, the focus chapter in this year’s Long-Term Care Report analyzes the impact of Covid-19 on the care home sector. Not only are the effects on the residents and the homes themselves examined, but also the financial effects on long-term care insurance. Read more ...

05.10.2022

Discursive Smoke Grenades

A sociological perspective on “alternative facts”

Nils Kumkar’s new book investigates alternative facts from a sociological, communication theory perspective: What is fought about and what is agreed upon when alternative facts are shaping the debates? What is their communicative function? Read more ...

16.05.2022

New book on the German middle classes published with Springer VS

“Die beharrliche Mitte” (“The persistent middle”) reconstructs images of the “good life” and practices of status work in the German middle classes

They show the conduct of life of the middle classes to be shaped by three distinct, implicit ideals of the good life: an orientation towards community, professional pride, and economic status improvement Read more ...

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The office hours of the SOCIUM Administration are Monday to Friday from 9 am to 2 pm.

Please contact us by mail via the functional account socium-verwaltung.de