Sandra Buchholz
Biographic Data
| ID | 260391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Buchholz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchholz |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHHOLZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5588-935X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond tradition: Successful career paths to full professorship
German academia has faced multiple changes over the last two decades, including new academic pathways to full professorship inspired by the Anglo-Saxon academic system, such as junior professorship and tenure track. Our study investigates the patterns of academic career trajectories to full professorship that have emerged subsequently. We illuminate the relationship between those “career types” and their determinants. Using data from the prof*pan…
Social origin and the intention to enrol in higher education: Personality traits as a mechanism of reproduction or mobility
A vast amount of research has shown that social inequality in educational attainment is a persistent phenomenon. Sociological research explains unequal educational decisions via primary and secondary effects of social origin, respectively unequal school performance and patterns of educational decision-making. So far, educational sociology has largely ignored the role of personality traits for educational decision-making. Therefore, we extend the …
Inequality at the Transition to Higher Education in Germany: Social Differences by Prior Educational Pathways
In this article, we assess the importance of alternative pathways via vocational schools and vocational education and training (VET) for social differences in the transition into higher education in Germany. Drawing on data from the DZHW Panel of School Leavers 2018, we use sequence analysis to identify both classical and alternative pathways to obtaining a higher education entrance certificate. We then apply logistic regressions and decompositio…
Does Gender Composition in a Field of Study Matter? Gender Disparities in College Students’ Academic Self-Concepts
Gendered field-of-study choice is a lively topic of discussion. The explanation usually given for the fact that women are still an exception in typically ‘male’ fields—particularly STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)—employs domain-specific stereotypes regarding men’s and women’s ‘natural’ abilities in different fields. The central argument of our study is that domain-specific gender stereotypes help explain why few women ente…
Advantage 'Finds Its Way: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
This article discusses key findings from eduLIFE, a cross-national project that examined the emergence of social inequalities in 17 countries characterized by different models of secondary education. First, we build upon existing international studies and propose a broader classification of forms of differentiation in secondary education. Second, we elaborate a fourfold typology of secondary education systems. Third, we provide a longitudinal and…
Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLife Project
Linking the macro to the micro: A multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional wa…
Wer profitiert von alternativen Bildungswegen? Alles eine Frage des Blickwinkels: Eine systematische Rekonstruktion des Effektes sozialer Herkunft für alternative Wege zur Hochschulreife
Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison
New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany
Journal Article New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany Get access Sandra Buchholz, Sandra Buchholz * 1Department of Sociology, Bamberg University, Germany *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Antonia Schier Antonia Schier 2Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, NEPS, Germany Sea…
National patterns of income and wealth inequality
The aim of this article is to show that wealth must be treated as a distinct dimension of social stratification alongside income. In a first step, we explain why social stratification researchers have largely overlooked wealth in the past and present a detailed definition of wealth by differentiating it from income. In the empirical part of the article, we analyze the distribution of wealth across 18 countries, and we describe and compare nationa…
Reversing Early Retirement in GermanyA Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Recent Pension Reforms on the Timing of the Transition to Retirement and on Pension Incomes
This article investigates the effects and risks of recent pension reforms in Germany. While German pension policy systematically supported early retirement for many years in order to relieve the regulated labour market in times of economic stagnation, there has been a substantial change of the pension policy paradigm in the more recent past. Latest reforms expect older people to prolong working life. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Pane…
Einkommensreich – vermögensarm? Die Zusammensetzung von Vermögen und die Bedeutung einzelner Vermögenskomponenten im europäischen Vergleich
Sind leistungsschwache Jugendliche tatsächlich nicht ausbildungsfähig: Eine Längsschnittanalyse zur beruflichen Qualifizierung von Jugendlichen mit geringen kognitiven Kompetenzen im Nachbarland Schwe…
Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies
Increasing Inequalities in Germany: Older People’s Employment Lives and Income Conditions Since the Mid-1980s
This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations.
El desarrollo de desigualdades sociales en el proceso de globalización: Una comparación de los cursos de vida en Europa y Estados Unidos
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course. Patterns in Modern Societies: A Summary of the Results from the Globalife-Project
Beschäftigungsflexibilisierung in Deutschland – Wen betrifft sie und wie hat sie sich auf die Veränderung sozialer Inklusion/Exklusion in Deutschland ausgewirkt?
Eine dauerhafte und stabile Beschäftigung ist im so genannten konservativen deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodell für Individuen eine wichtige Quelle der sozialen Absicherung, der sozialen Teilhabe und der sozialen Anerkennung. Der „Arbeitsplatzbesitz“ ermöglicht dem Einzelnen nicht nur durch das aktuelle Einkommen den Zugang zu Gütern und Dienstleistungen, sondern beeinflusst im beitragsorientierten deutschen System der Sozialversicherung auch das Ni…
Increasing Resource Inequality among Families in Modern Societies: The Mechanisms of Growing Educational Homogamy, Changes in the Division of Work in the Family and the Decline of the Male Breadwinner…
Many social inequality studies in modern societies take an individualistic approach. They analyse men and women as individuals and neglect marriage patterns and familial relationships. This often implies that men and women are all alike, that there are no important differences within households, and that employment chances and risks within the family are based on gender-free considerations. This article draws on the empirical results of several i…
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs
Wie flexibel ist heute der Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland? Wer erfährt die größten Nachteile auf dem zunehmend flexibilisierten Arbeitsmarkt? Wie entwickeln sich soziale Ungleichheiten im Flexibilisierungsprozess? Sandra Buchholz geht diesen Fragen mit modernen Methoden der Längsschnittanalyse nach. Sie zeigt, dass die Flexibilisierung von Beschäftigung in Deutschland bisher vor allem zu Beginn und am Ende des Erwerbslebens stattfindet. Die Folgen f…
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs: Eine Analyse von Einstiegs- und Ausstiegsprozessen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs: Eine Analyse Von Einstiegs- und Ausstiegsprozessen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
National patterns of income and wealth inequality
The aim of this article is to show that wealth must be treated as a distinct dimension of social stratification alongside income. In a first step, we explain why social stratification researchers have largely overlooked wealth in the past and present a detailed definition of wealth by differentiating it from income. In the empirical part of the article, we analyze the distribution of wealth across 18 countries, and we describe and compare nationa…
New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany
Journal Article New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany Get access Sandra Buchholz, Sandra Buchholz * 1Department of Sociology, Bamberg University, Germany *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Antonia Schier Antonia Schier 2Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, NEPS, Germany Sea…
Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States
The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort…
Advantage 'Finds Its Way: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
This article discusses key findings from eduLIFE, a cross-national project that examined the emergence of social inequalities in 17 countries characterized by different models of secondary education. First, we build upon existing international studies and propose a broader classification of forms of differentiation in secondary education. Second, we elaborate a fourfold typology of secondary education systems. Third, we provide a longitudinal and…
Increasing Resource Inequality among Families in Modern Societies: The Mechanisms of Growing Educational Homogamy, Changes in the Division of Work in the Family and the Decline of the Male Breadwinner…
Many social inequality studies in modern societies take an individualistic approach. They analyse men and women as individuals and neglect marriage patterns and familial relationships. This often implies that men and women are all alike, that there are no important differences within households, and that employment chances and risks within the family are based on gender-free considerations. This article draws on the empirical results of several i…
Linking the macro to the micro: A multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional wa…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Reversing Early Retirement in GermanyA Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Recent Pension Reforms on the Timing of the Transition to Retirement and on Pension Incomes
This article investigates the effects and risks of recent pension reforms in Germany. While German pension policy systematically supported early retirement for many years in order to relieve the regulated labour market in times of economic stagnation, there has been a substantial change of the pension policy paradigm in the more recent past. Latest reforms expect older people to prolong working life. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Pane…
Wer profitiert von alternativen Bildungswegen? Alles eine Frage des Blickwinkels: Eine systematische Rekonstruktion des Effektes sozialer Herkunft für alternative Wege zur Hochschulreife
Einkommensreich – vermögensarm? Die Zusammensetzung von Vermögen und die Bedeutung einzelner Vermögenskomponenten im europäischen Vergleich
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLife Project
Sind leistungsschwache Jugendliche tatsächlich nicht ausbildungsfähig: Eine Längsschnittanalyse zur beruflichen Qualifizierung von Jugendlichen mit geringen kognitiven Kompetenzen im Nachbarland Schwe…
The dilemma of managed care
The dilemma of managed care
Women’s Employment in West Germany
Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States
The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort…
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs
Wie flexibel ist heute der Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland? Wer erfährt die größten Nachteile auf dem zunehmend flexibilisierten Arbeitsmarkt? Wie entwickeln sich soziale Ungleichheiten im Flexibilisierungsprozess? Sandra Buchholz geht diesen Fragen mit modernen Methoden der Längsschnittanalyse nach. Sie zeigt, dass die Flexibilisierung von Beschäftigung in Deutschland bisher vor allem zu Beginn und am Ende des Erwerbslebens stattfindet. Die Folgen f…
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs: Eine Analyse von Einstiegs- und Ausstiegsprozessen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs: Eine Analyse Von Einstiegs- und Ausstiegsprozessen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Beschäftigungsflexibilisierung in Deutschland – Wen betrifft sie und wie hat sie sich auf die Veränderung sozialer Inklusion/Exklusion in Deutschland ausgewirkt?
Eine dauerhafte und stabile Beschäftigung ist im so genannten konservativen deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodell für Individuen eine wichtige Quelle der sozialen Absicherung, der sozialen Teilhabe und der sozialen Anerkennung. Der „Arbeitsplatzbesitz“ ermöglicht dem Einzelnen nicht nur durch das aktuelle Einkommen den Zugang zu Gütern und Dienstleistungen, sondern beeinflusst im beitragsorientierten deutschen System der Sozialversicherung auch das Ni…
Increasing Resource Inequality among Families in Modern Societies: The Mechanisms of Growing Educational Homogamy, Changes in the Division of Work in the Family and the Decline of the Male Breadwinner…
Many social inequality studies in modern societies take an individualistic approach. They analyse men and women as individuals and neglect marriage patterns and familial relationships. This often implies that men and women are all alike, that there are no important differences within households, and that employment chances and risks within the family are based on gender-free considerations. This article draws on the empirical results of several i…
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course. Patterns in Modern Societies: A Summary of the Results from the Globalife-Project
Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies
Increasing Inequalities in Germany: Older People’s Employment Lives and Income Conditions Since the Mid-1980s
This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations.
El desarrollo de desigualdades sociales en el proceso de globalización: Una comparación de los cursos de vida en Europa y Estados Unidos
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Einkommensreich – vermögensarm? Die Zusammensetzung von Vermögen und die Bedeutung einzelner Vermögenskomponenten im europäischen Vergleich
Sind leistungsschwache Jugendliche tatsächlich nicht ausbildungsfähig: Eine Längsschnittanalyse zur beruflichen Qualifizierung von Jugendlichen mit geringen kognitiven Kompetenzen im Nachbarland Schwe…
Reversing Early Retirement in GermanyA Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Recent Pension Reforms on the Timing of the Transition to Retirement and on Pension Incomes
This article investigates the effects and risks of recent pension reforms in Germany. While German pension policy systematically supported early retirement for many years in order to relieve the regulated labour market in times of economic stagnation, there has been a substantial change of the pension policy paradigm in the more recent past. Latest reforms expect older people to prolong working life. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Pane…
National patterns of income and wealth inequality
The aim of this article is to show that wealth must be treated as a distinct dimension of social stratification alongside income. In a first step, we explain why social stratification researchers have largely overlooked wealth in the past and present a detailed definition of wealth by differentiating it from income. In the empirical part of the article, we analyze the distribution of wealth across 18 countries, and we describe and compare nationa…
New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany
Journal Article New Game, New Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany Get access Sandra Buchholz, Sandra Buchholz * 1Department of Sociology, Bamberg University, Germany *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Antonia Schier Antonia Schier 2Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, NEPS, Germany Sea…
Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison
Linking the macro to the micro: A multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional wa…
Wer profitiert von alternativen Bildungswegen? Alles eine Frage des Blickwinkels: Eine systematische Rekonstruktion des Effektes sozialer Herkunft für alternative Wege zur Hochschulreife
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Inequality (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Globalization (7 works) · Social science (7 works)