Chair in Macrosociology

Since October of 2004 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus holds the Chair in Macrosociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. He is Director of the Mannheim Centre of European Social Research (MZES) and Academic Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social & Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS).

Since December 2006 Claudia Göbel and Sebastian Koos work as lecturers at the chair. Additional seminars are taught by the Fellows Dr. Claus Wendt (currently at CES, Harvard University), Dr. Jan Drahokoupil, J. Timo Weishaupt, Ph.D. as well as PD Dr. Thomas Bahle at MZES. Until 2006 Dr. Carsten G. Ullrich worked at the chair and conducted a research project at the MZES. The previous holder of the chair, Dr. Johannes Berger, is Professor emeritus since 2004.

With regard to teaching the Chair in Macrosociology offers lecture and seminar courses in BA Sociology and Comparative Sociology (II). In addition to the BA lecture and complementary course "Social Structures and Processes", the chair offers graduate-level lectures and seminars for the BA module "European Societies in Comparison" and the graduate programme on the following topics: social change and modernization; institutional analysis; economic and organizational sociology; labour relations and labour market regulation; welfare state regimes and social policy; civil society and civil movements; transnationalization and European integration, historical comparative and qualitative research methods.

Research at the Chair examines the commonalities and particularities of the European “social models” in an international comparative perspective. Current research at the MZES focuses on the following topics: the role of the social partners within the reform of European welfare states, the institutional transformation of the pension systems, societal acceptance of the welfare state, changes in European trade unions and the long-term development of European societies.

Mailing address:

Chair in Macrosociology

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Mannheim

D-68131 Mannheim

Germany

Visitors´ address:

A5,6 Room 518 (secretary´s office)

Secretary:

Christa von Briel

E-mail: cbrielsowi.uni-mannheim.de

Phone: (+49) 0621 181-2030

Fax: (+49) 0621 181-2029