Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Rekrutierungsmuster im Berufsfeld Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine Gesamterhebung der Professorinnen und Professoren an universitären...

School entrance examinations are both an incentive system to motivate students and a screening device to identify students with the most potential. To maximize incentives to acquire knowledge, exams should only reward achievement. But to identify the most able students, exams should also reward...

Since the beginning of transition, the level and structure of average food consumption and expenditure of Russian households has changed substantially. This development has gone together with a steep increase in the share of food in total expenditure. Notable differences with respect to food...

Die Individualisierungshypothese impliziert mit zunehmendem gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand ansteigende Heterogenität von Lebenslagen einerseits, und abnehmende Prägekraft sozialer Klassen und Schichten andererseits. Zur Untersuchung dieser beiden Implikationen wird die Heterogenität und...

The paper focuses on the following question: What is known about the existence and the extent of health inequalities, their explanations and potential ways to reduce them, by members of the lower social class, by health professionals and by health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly...