Jens Alber

Biography

since 2002 Director of the Division "Inequality and Social Integration" at the Berlin Science Research Center for Social Research and Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin 1991-2002 Chair of Social Policy, University of Konstanz, Faculty of Administrative Sciences 1986-91 Scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute for Society Research, Cologne 1986 Habilitation, University of Mannheim (Venia Legendi for Sociology)

Research Interest

Jens Alber's research has been a long-standing institutional-social analysis of social structures as well as a form of social-scientific work aimed at bridging education between social theory, empirical social research and socio-political practice relevance. While its focus on its former centers of influence has been more strongly on the comparison of social-political institutions in the sense of comparative welfare state research