Welfare Societies - Coping with Instabilities

Full Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology and Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

Head, Department Gender Policy in the Welfare State, Center for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen, Germany

Vice Dean, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

Co-Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany

Guest Lecturer, Sociology Department, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Austria

Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Göttingen, Germany

Research Associate, Sociological Research Institute (SOFI), University of Göttingen, Germany

Habilitation (venia legendi) in Sociology, University of Göttingen, Germany

Post-doctoral Fellow, German Science Foundation (DFG), Graduate Program “Gender Relations and Social Change”, University of Dortmund, Germany

Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany

Diploma in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany

Post-doctoral Scholarship, German Science Foundation (DFG), Graduate Program “Gender Relations and Social Change”, University of Dortmund, Germany

Fulbright Scholarship, Program “American Studies for German Junior Social Scientists”, New York University, New York, USA

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship, language studies, Universita degli Stranieri, Perugia, Italy

Tepe, Markus, Karin Gottschall & Bernhard Kittel (2010) A structural fit between states and markets? Public administration regimes and market economy models in the OECD, in: Socio-Economic Review 8:4, 653-684

Gottschall, Karin (2009) Der Staat und seine Diener: Metamorphosen eines wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Beschäftigungsmodells, in: Herbert Obinger & Elmar Rieger (Eds.), Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit in entwickelten Demokratien. Herausforderungen, Reformen und Perspektiven, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 461-491

Walby, Sylvia, Heidi Gottfried, Karin Gottschall & Mari Osawa, Eds. (2007) Gendering the New Economy - Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (paperback 2009)

Henninger, Annette & Karin Gottschall (2007) Freelancers in Germany’s Old and New Media Industry: Beyond Standard Patterns of Work and Life?, in: Critical Sociology 33:1-2, 43-71

Gottschall, Karin & Gerd Günter Voß, Eds. (2005) Entgrenzung von Arbeit und Leben, München/Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Betzelt, Sigrid & Karin Gottschall (2004) Publishing and the New Media Professions as Forerunners of Pioneer Work and Life in Germany, in: Janet Z. Giele & Elke Holst (Eds.), Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies, London: Elsevier, 257-280

Gottschall, Karin & Katherine Bird (2003) Family Leave Policies and Labor Market Segregation in Germany: Reinvention or Reform of the Male Breadwinner?, in: Review of Policy Research 20:1, 115-134 (Special Issue on Gender and Work Place Policies)

Gottschall, Karin (2001) Zwischen tertiärer Krise und tertiärer Zivilisation. Zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Analyse von Dienstleistungsgesellschaften, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 11:2, 217-235

Gottschall, Karin (2000) Soziale Ungleichheit und Geschlecht. Kontinuitäten und Brüche, Sackgassen und Erkenntnispotentiale im deutschen soziologischen Diskurs, Opladen: Leske + Budrich

Gottschall, Karin (1999) Freie Mitarbeit im Journalismus. Zur Entwicklung von Erwerbsformen zwischen selbständiger und abhängiger Beschäftigung, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 51:4, 635-654