WZB erlin Social Science Center
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D-10785 Berlin
Ordinary Academicians
Most important awards, prizes and academies
2018 Award “25 Women who revolutionize our economy”, Magazine Edition F 2017 Helge-Pross-Award of the University of Siegen; 2017 Awarded the Thomas Mann Fellow of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V.; 2016 Marsilius-Medal, University of Heidelberg; 2015 Appointed Senior Fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University; 2014 Appointed Member of the Goethe Institute; 2014 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Tampere; 2013 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, Berlin; 2013 Schader Award of the Schader Foundation, Darmstadt; 2012 Waldemar-von-Knoeringen-Award of the Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie, Kochel am See; 2012 Honorary Professorship in Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin; 2012 Soroptimist International German Promotional Award – Award for her commitment to improve the status of women in society; 2012 Berlin Order of Merit–State of Berlin; 2011 Elected Member of the German Academy of Engineering Science acatech 2011-2019; Appointed Member of the European Academy of Sociology (EAS); 2011-2014 Appointed Member of the High Level Economic Expert Committee “Innovation for Growth (I4G)” of the European Commission; 2011 Awarded the “TUM Distinguished Affiliate Professorship” of the Technological University of Munich; 2011 Berlin Women Award 2011 – Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues, Berlin; 2010 Appointed Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; 2009 Communicator Award – Science Award of the “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft”; 2009 Appointed Member, Board of the Humboldt University, Berlin; 2007 Appointed Professor (W3) of Educational Sociology and Labour Market Research at Humboldt University Berlin (accepted January 2007); 2007 Appointed Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle; 2006 Appointed President of the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (accepted December 2006); 2006 Appointed Chair of Sociology and Empirical Social Research (focus on Labour Market Sociology) at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg (declined December 2006); 2004 Appointed Full Member of the “Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften“ (formerly “Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften“); 2003 Award of the “Deutscher Frauenring” for research on Life Development; 2002 Appointed Director of the Institute of Employment Research, Nuremberg (accepted November 2002); 1999-2002 Elected President of the German Sociological Association (GSA) (two terms of office); 1998 Appointed Chair of Organizational Sociology, Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer (declined December 1998); 1998 Appointed Professor of Sociology III, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München (accepted January 1999); 1996-1997 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA (one-year fellowship); 1996 Award of the “Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft” for Extraordinary Achievements in Teaching; 1992 Award of the foundation “Mitteldeutscher Kulturrat”, Bonn for the work “State and Market Culture“; 1991-1992 Fellow at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA (one-year fellowship) 1987-1988; Harvard Dissertation Merit Fellowship, Cambridge, MA, USA; 1986 Krupp Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA; 1984-1985 Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service for study residency in Madison, WI, USA; 1982 Award for diploma thesis from the foundation “Rheinischer Hypothekenbanken”, Mannheim.
Summary of scientific research
Sociology of the Labour Market; Sociology of Education; Social Inequality; Social Policy; Sociology of Life Course; Organisational Sociology.
Main publications
Allmendinger, Jutta/Jan Wetzel (2020): Die Vertrauensfrage. Für eine neue Politik des Zusammenhalts. Berlin: Dudenverlag; Allmendinger, Jutta (2017): Das Land, in dem wir leben wollen. Wie die Deutschen sich ihre Zukunft vorstellen. München: Pantheon; Allmendinger, Jutta/Ellen von den Driesch (2015): An Ever Closer Union among the Peoples of Europe? Rising Inequalities in the EU and their Social, Economic and Political Impacts – Outcomes of EU-funded Research. Brüssel: European Commission; Erschienen in deutscher Sprache als: Mythen – Fakten – Ansatzpunkte. Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit in Europa. Kleine Reihe. Theodor-Heuss-Gedächtnis-Vorlesung 2014. Stuttgart: Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus; Allmendinger, Jutta (2012). Schulaufgaben. Wie wir das Bildungssystem verändern müssen, um unseren Kindern gerecht zu werden. München: Pantheon; Allmendinger, Jutta (2010). Verschenkte Potenziale? Lebensverläufe nicht erwerbstätiger Frauen. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus; Allmendinger, Jutta (2009). Frauen auf dem Sprung. Wie junge Frauen heute leben wollen. München: Pantheon (also published as: Allmendinger, Jutta (2010). Frauen auf dem Sprung. Wie junge Frauen heute leben wollen. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung); Fortsetzungen der Studie erschienen als: Allmendinger, Jutta (2013): Lebensentwürfe heute. Wie junge Frauen und Männer leben wollen. Kleine Schriften 55. Schaan: Verlag der Liechtensteinischen Akademischen Gesellschaft; Allmendinger, Jutta/Sophie Krug von Nidda/Vanessa Wintermantel (2016): Lebensentwürfe junger Frauen und Männer in Bayern. München: BayernForum der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; Allmendinger, Jutta (1994). Lebensverlauf und Sozialpolitik. Die Ungleichheit zwischen Mann und Frau und ihr öffentlicher Ertrag. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus; Allmendinger, Jutta (1989). Career Mobility Dynamics. A Comparative Analysis of the United States, Norway, and West Germany. Berlin: Edition Sigma.
Editorial Works: since 2017 Co-Editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit; since 2013 Co-Editor of the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Familienrecht (NZFam), Verlag C.H., Beck, Frankfurt a.M.; since 2009 Co-Editor of the journal Forschung. Politik–Strategie–Management, UVW Universitäts Verlag Webler; 2003-2007 Editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung (until 2003 Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung); 2001-2003 Member of the editorial board of the journal Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (MittAB); 1999-2003 Editor of the series Studien zur Wissenschafts- und Organisationssoziologie, Opladen: Leske + Budrich (now at VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften); 1998-2001 Developer, Editor, then Co-Editor of the journal European Societies, European Sociological Association. First release April 1999 (Routledge).