Jens Alber (born 1947) is a German sociologist and political scientist. He was awarded the 1983

Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research The Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is an academic honour awarded by the International Science Council, the University of Bergen and the European Consortium for Political Research, in memory of the political scientist a ...

Career

In 1972, Jens Alber graduated from

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

. From 1972 to 1973 he was a certified research assistant at the department of sociology at

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

. Between 1973 and 1977 he served as assistant at the Research Institute of Sociology at

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, and from 1977 to 1980 served as assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology of the University of Cologne. From 1980 to 1983, he worked as research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in the project "The Development of the Western European Welfare States Since the Second World War". From 1986 to 1991, Jens Alber worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. In 1991 he took over the chair of social policy at the faculty of administrative sciences of the

, which he held until 2001. From 2002 to 2011 Jens Alber was director of the department "Inequality and Social Integration" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin.

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1947 births Academic staff of the University of Konstanz German political scientists German sociologists Winners of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research Living people Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin {{Authority control