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Soziologische Revue

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Zeitschrift für Sozialreform

Issue 3, 2019 is out now. Subscribe to our eTOC-Alert which is published four times a year and gives information about titles, authors and abstracts.

Neuer Webauftritt von Qualiservice

05.02.2019More funding for the data service center QUALISERVICE

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

29.01.2019"Longer better living." Book published about the initiative

Prevention recommendations implemented in everyday life.

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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02.12.2019

Frank Nullmeier New Member of the Scientific Board of the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung

Deutsche Rentenversicherung appoints SOCIUM member for a three-year term

Rarely known but very useful: The Deutsche Rentenversicherung finances important social science research in the area of old-age security. Since 2001 this is institutionally organized in the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) which supports research projects, research scholarships, workshops, a research award and a graduate colloquium. Read more ...

28.11.2019

On the Consequences of New Modes of Community Long-Term Care Provision

Authors from the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen present the BARMER Long-Term Care Report for 2019

This year's BARMER Long-Term Care Report was presented today at the Conference Centre of the Federal Press Conference House in Berlin. The analysis of new living arrangements with long-term care provision is the central focus of this year’s Report. It also includes a review of LTC insurance 25 years since its inception. As in previous years, the authors – Professor Dr. Heinz Rothgang and Dr. Rolf Müller – continue to deliver in-depth analyses of case numbers, incidences, prevalences and long-term care trajectories. The data used for the Report are primarily long-term care statistics for the year 2017 and claims data provided by the health insurance fund BARMER. Read more ...

29.10.2019

Obituary: Rainer Müller (1941-2019)

SOCIUM mourns Rainer Müller, founding member of the Center for Social Policy and its longtime director

Rainer Müller was both a physician and a sociologist. This explains the breadth of his research interests as well as his unusual willingness as a Professor of Ergonomics and Occupational Medicine to participate in the organization of an interdisciplinary social science research center Read more ...