University of Leipzig,
Institut für Soziologie
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Office H4 1.04
Telephone +49 (0)341 / 97-35613
E-Mail stephanie.pravemann[at]uni-leipzig.de
Office Hours: By arrangement (by phone or mail).
University of Leipzig,
Institut für Soziologie
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Office H4 1.04
Telephone +49 (0)341 / 97-35613
E-Mail stephanie.pravemann[at]uni-leipzig.de
Office Hours: By arrangement (by phone or mail).
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Holger Lengfeld
Research assistants: Stephanie Pravemann, M.A.; Katharina Müller, M.A.
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (413.000 €)
Duration: 15.02.2015 - 14.02.2018
ProMIS is part of OIKON, a project group located at the Center of Globalisation and Governance (CGG) at the University of Hamburg.
Research Questions:
Since the early 1990s, profound institutional changes can be observed in the labor market, welfare state, and wage policy, such as the increase of flexible employment, changes in social security schemes and variable payment. These changes are associated with the extension of employment-related risks, weaker upward mobility and income fluctuations. At the beginning of the 21st century, signs of status uncertainty in the middle classes became apparent, which are characterised by the fear to lose one’s own wealth position. It is assumed that the described changes have led to an institutional non-complementarity within the German model of coordinated capitalism, which caused an increase of status uncertainty and a fear of falling, especially in the middle classes.
ProMIS will raise the following research questions:
Research Method:
Based on a theoretical clarification of the relationship between these institutional changes and emerging (non-)complementarities in Germany we will develop assumptions about how social classes differ in perceiving and coping with these changes. Subsequently, two CAWI surveys based on a randomly stratified sample of 3000 German adults belonging to the workforce will be carried out.
First Publications:
Pravemann, Stephanie & Stephan Poppe (2015): LEGIDA gezählt. Soziologie 44(2), 153-161.
Klingner, Stephan; Pravemann, Stephanie; Becker, Michael (2015): Service Productivity In Different Industries – An Empirical Investigation. In: Benchmarking: An International Journal.
Klingner, Stephan; Pravemann, Stephanie; Becker, Michael (2014): Produktivität bei Dienstleistungen. Leipzig: LIV (Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, 43).
Klingner, Stephan; Pravemann, Stephanie; Becker, Michael; Fähnrich, Klaus-Peter (2014): Managing Service Productivity. In: John Bessant, Claudia Lehmann und Kathrin M. Moeslein (Hg.): Driving Service Productivity. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Management for Professionals), S. 43–58.