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Soziologische Revue

Issue 2, 2019 is out now. Subscribe to our eTOC-Alert which is published four times a year and gives information about titles, authors and abstracts.

Zeitschrift für Sozialreform

Issue 1, 2019 is out now. Subscribe to our eTOC-Alert which is published four times a year and gives information about titles, authors and abstracts.

18.04.2019Successful completion of the lecture series by Prof. Dr. med. Gerd Glaeske on the health effects of herbs and spices

Note: Lecture is German

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.

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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17.07.2019

Karin Gottschall Elected Member of DFG-Senatsausschuss für Sonderforschungsbereiche

DFG elects new members for its Senatsausschuss and Bewilligungsausschuss für Sonderforschungsbereiche

Recently the Senat of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) elected some of the bodies of the DFG. In doing so it elected one of the members of SOCIUM in two important committees. Karin Gottschall, Professor of Sociology at Fachbereich 8 and Department Head at SOCIUM, became member of the Senatsausschuss für Sonderforschungsbereiche of the DFG and at the same time member of the Bewilligungsausschuss für Sonderforschungsbereiche. Read more ...

28.06.2019

Research Data Center QUALISERVICE Accredited

The German Data Forum on empirical social, behavioural and economic sciences accredits the research data center QUALISERVICE located at the SOCIUM Research Center of the University of Bremen.

The German Data Forum advises the federal government and is involved in optimizing data infrastructures. Having obtained the accreditation, Qualiservice now aims to strengthen the interests of qualitative research at the level of science policy. Read more ...

13.06.2019

Skin cancer report 2019 published

On 29th May Prof. Dr. Gerd Glaeske, Co-editor, presented the "Skin cancer report 2019" together with Techniker Krankenkasse and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in Germany, with 270,000 new cases per year. In every seventh case of skin cancer the highly aggressive malignant melanoma (so-called black skin cancer) is diagnosed. About 14% of skin cancer cases are melanoma, and 86% are non-melanoma (also known as white skin cancer). Every year the number of cases increases. From 2009-2015 the number of diagnoses of non-melanaoma increased by 50% and melanoma by 30%. If detected early enough, however, skin cancer is often curable. Read more ...