Research project “The making of the mature entrepreneur"
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The research project intends to examine the process of becoming an entrepreneur in later life with relation to previous career paths in order to establish how life course experiences determine the shift to self-employment.
Research Project: PREWORK
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The project seeks to propose new theoretical insights into the extent to which precarious working and living conditions influence the emergent forms of social, class and political consciousness, individual life strategies and collective civic engagement of young workers in Poland and Germany.
Tagung: “Eastern Europe’s New Conservatives: Varieties and Explanations from Poland to Russia”
Eastern Europe’s New Conservatives
From 09.02 - 10.02.2017, the department for Sociology at the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin organised the conference "Eastern Europe’s New Conservatives: Varieties and Explanations from Poland to Russias". The major goal of the conference was to explore the communalities and varieties in the new conservatism of Eastern Europe and Russia.