Raum: 3.3380
Mary-Sommerville-Str. 3
28359 Bremen
Thematic Conference
Technological Change, Digitalization and Life Course Inequalities
Technological change has major implications for social inequality. Most of the research focuses on changes in skill requirements and labor market transformations. Yet, digitalization, more than ever before, has the potential to impact inequalities across a wide range of life domains and for different groups in society. This workshop aims to connect researchers to discuss the most important developments and challenges that digitalization has for inequality. The aim is to stimulate and cross-fertilize research on digitalization and inequality regarding various dimensions of the life course and life periods/stages, across various institutional settings. Example questions are: Are gender inequalities intensified or alleviated by technological changes? Do digital technologies foster family relations across generations? What are the implications of changes in skill requirements at work for the reproduction of social inequality? Can elderly benefit from technological advancements or are they left behind? How doesdigitalization impact ethnic inequalities and segregation (e.g., language barriers, labor market integration)?
Keynote Speakers
Mario L. Small, Harvard University
Glenda Quintini, OECD
For registration, please contact simone.ruiz@uni-bremen.de
The world-wide gender gap in education depends not just on countries' economic performance, but also on cultural factors. However, world cultures are not fixed entities. Rather, culture is a characteristic of groups as well as of (world-)regions. How do global cultures moderate women's low education? Based on data of the World Value Survey, this study applies Latent Profile Analysis to generate a fuzzy-set typology of cultures in the world, but based on individuals instead of nation states. Individuals do not belong exclusively to one culture, but to several cultures simultaneously, with varying probabilities. In the second step, cross-classified logistic multilevel models test the country-time specific effects of 'female' on the risk of getting (at best) low education, controlling for various individual and country-specific factors. Cross-level interactions show that the 'female' effect on low education is indeed moderated by world cultures, but neither world cultures, economic factors nor individual characteristics completely explain the strength of the female effects.
Spring Conference of the Section on Social Network Analysis of the German Sociological Association (DGS), February 6 / 7, 2020
Conference program
With the increasing availability of longitudinal data, researchers need to decide the best models for their data.
A wide variety of models have been proposed, many of which are available using Structural Equation Models (SEM). This course will review some of the major longitudinal SEMs. Among others this will include autoregressive/crosslag models, latent growth curve models, and Autoregressive Latent Trajectory (ALT) models. The workshop will present each type of model and illustrate their estimation and fit with empirical data.
Some knowledge of SEMs is assumed.
Ken A. Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC at Chapel Hill. He is a faculty member in the Quantitative Psychology Program in the Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory. He also is chair of the Methods Core and a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center and a Faculty member of the Center for Developmental Science. Since 1980 he has been an instructor in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Bollen's primary areas of statistical research are in structural equation models, longitudinal methods, and latent growth curve models.
Anmeldung:
E-Mail an Johannes Nostadt (nostadt@uni-bremen.de)
Am Freitag und Samstag, dem 27. und 28.04.2018 findet im Gästehaus der Universität ein interdisziplinärer Workshop zur Archivierung und Sekundärnutzung qualitativer Forschungsdaten aus der Sozialforschung, unter anderem mit internationaler Beteiligung, statt.
Erfahrungen mit dem Aufbau und der Nutzung professioneller Infrastrukturen und Forschungsdatenzentren sollen evaluiert, Herausforderungen und Spannungsfelder diskutiert und Anforderungen an Forschungsdatenzentren formuliert werden.
Der interdisziplinäre Workshop wird organisiert vom SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik an der Universität Bremen im Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD). U.a. wird auch das am SOCIUM angesiedelte DFG-Infrastrukturprojekt QUALISERVICE - Datenservicezentrum für qualitative Interviewdaten vertreten sein.
Weitere Informationen:
Qualiservice - Datenservicezentrum für qualitative Interviewdaten an der Universität Bremen
Download: Programm des Workshop "Archivierung und Zugang zu qualitativen Forschungsdaten"
9:00 - 9:15 Uhr
Begrüßung
9:15 - 10:30 Uhr
Karin Gottschall/Heinz Rothgang
Die Wirkung von Politik auf Lebenschancen und Lebensführung: das Beispiel Langzeitpflege
Kommentare von Anna Amelina und Giovanni Lamura
10:30 - 10:45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
10:45 - 12:00 Uhr
Sonja Drobnič/Johannes Huinink
Die Wirkung von Politik auf Lebenschancen und Lebensführung: Familie und Familienpolitik
Kommentare von Irene Gerlach und Gerda Neyer
12:00 - 13:00 Uhr
Mittagspause (Selbstverpflegung in der Stadt)
13:00 - 13:45 Uhr
Frank Nullmeier
Digitalisierung - ein neues Forschungsfeld für das SOCIUM?
13:45 - 15:00 Uhr
Uwe Schimank/Olaf Groh-Samberg
BMBF-Antrag für ein Institut für gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt
15:00 - 15:15 Uhr
Kaffeepause
15:15 - 17:00 Uhr
SOCIUM-Mitgliederversammlung und anschließend (ca. 15:45 Uhr) SOCIUM-Vorstandssitzung
Download: Programm der SOCIUM-Jahreskonferenz