Martin Kohli
Biographic Data
| ID | 271159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Kohli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohli |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9957-0940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 542 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Wl-8081-Towards Greener Pastures - An Overview of Pastoral Economics, Policies and Ecologies in India
This paper critically examines the ecological, economic, and policy challenges facing pastoralism and grassland ecosystems in India, particularly in the context of climate change and evolving land-use pressures. Drawing upon a global literature, it contextualises Indian pastoralism and its grassland dynamics, highlighting the ecological factors shaping pastoralism across the country. A second section describes the pastoral economy, drawing attent…
Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens
Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergeneration…
Generational Change
The concept of generation can be defined with regard to society or to family – two levels which are usually analyzed separately but should be treated in a unified framework. At the level of the family, generation refers to position in the lineage (filiation). At the societal level, it refers to the aggregate of persons born in a limited period (i.e., a birth cohort according to demographic parlance) who therefore experience historical events at s…
You can't always get what you want
Using data from the European Social Survey fielded in 2010/11, this study presents new evidence on retirement preferences in Europe. It investigates retirees' preferred and actual ages of retirement , focusing on the retirement window 1995–2011. Moreover, it reports on the prevalence of mismatch in the form of involuntary retirement (retiring earlier than preferred) and involuntary work (retiring later than preferred). The study identifies substa…
The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies
As the pressure mounts to reduce the public costs of supporting rapidly aging societies, responsibility for supporting elderly people will increasingly fall on their family members. This essay explores the family's capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality pose special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. This essay mentions a series of studies suppo…
Explaining fertility
A theoretical approach to explaining fertility behavior in developed countries needs an integrative perspective. As fertility behavior takes place in a multi-level setting of biological, psychological, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions
A life-course approach to fertility
The life-course approach as a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of longitudinal individual-level data has fundamentally changed the agenda of demographic research. However, these methodological innovations have not been paralleled by a si
Arbeit in Einer Alternden Gesellschaft
Engagement Im Ruhestand
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
This volume investigates the different types of political engagement among ethnic minority youth in contemporary Norwegian society.The point of departure is that critical events on both national and international levels have been decisive for mobilisation of political engagement.The authors make a connection among well-known international events such as the Rushdie affair, the Muhammad caricature drawings and the terror attacks of 22 July 2011 to…
Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up
It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between the well-educated and those with less education. In this article we update estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy, examine trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008, and place observed disparities in the context of a rapidly aging society that i…
Engagement im Ruhestand
The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Europe
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and sometimes ignorant of - each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen cha…
Generationen
Die Beschäftigung mit Generationen hat eine sehr lange Tradition - und ist weiterhin hochaktuell. Bereits im Alten Ägypten wurden Probleme der Generationenverhältnisse diskutiert, heutzutage ist das Generationenthema in aller Munde, und für die Zukunft wird sogar eine noch weiter zunehmende Relevanz prognostiziert. Namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren einschlägiger Disziplinen (Ägyptologie, Biowissenschaft, Erziehungswissenschaft, Ethnologie, Geschich…
Generationen
Generationen
Social Structure and Social Construction of Life Stages
The articles in this symposium discuss how the life course has changed in the Western modernization process, how the social construction of the life course and of life stages can be theoretically conceptualized, and what empirical grounding there is for decisions between alternative theories. In the introduction, emphasis is put on the growing institutionalization of the life course during the last centuries and on its structural basis in the dev…
The social connectedness of older Europeans
Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our article shows that the population aged 50 or older is socially connected in several ways. The various dimensions of social connectedness turn out to be complementary rather than substitutive, except for the relationship between informal social relations and family relations, which tends to be characterized by substitution. Our longitudinal analysis rev…
What childless older people give
With the increase of childlessness in European societies, its consequences have become a matter of concern. Studies in this field, however, have concentrated on what childless people lack and need in terms of social, financial and moral support. In contrast, this article focuses on what childless people give to their families, friends, unrelated others and to society at large. Using 2004 data on social support and financial transfers given and re…
Childlessness and intergenerational transfers
In this introductory article for the special issue on Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers , we first discuss the prior research literature and then overview the presented contributions. Up to now, childless older adults have been treated for the most part as both homogeneous and a problematic group. This does not do justice to the different pathways to childlessness: there are those who actively forgo having children, those who defer bi…
The Institutionalization of the Life Course
In this article, I review the issues posed 20 years ago in my model of the historical institutionalization of the life course. I (a) recapitulate the claim that the life course has become one of the major institutions of contemporary societies; (b) discuss what has been learned in the meantime, both with respect to the dynamics of social change and to how the sociology of the life course is able to conceptualize them; (c) examine current trends t…
Pension Reform in Europe
1. Introduction: The Political Economy pf Pension Reform Camila Arza and Martin Kohli Part I. The Politics of Pension Reform 2. The 'New Politics' of Pension Reforms in Continental Europe David Natali and Martin Rhodes 3. Between Conflict and Consensus: The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Regimes Martin Schludi 4. How do Politicians get Away with Path-Breaking Pension Reforms? The Political Psychology of Pension Reform In Democracies Einar Overbye …
Generational Change
In its most obvious sense, generational change means change occurring along succeeding generations, showing up in differences between them. In a more fundamental sense, it expresses the idea that social change needs to be understood in terms of the sequence of generations, and is to a considerable extent driven by their dynamics
Intergenerational transfers of time and money in European families
The `generational contract' is the most important and also the most contentious dimension of contemporary welfare systems. Much of the debate on how to reform it is still truncated, however, by focusing on its public dimension only, especially on pensions and health-care provisions. For a full account, the transfer of resources between adult generations in the family needs to be included as well. So far, research on family transfers has almost ex…
Private and public transfers between generations
In the conventional story of modernization, the emergence of the nuclear family and of public old age security have been seen as parallel and mutually reinforcing processes. According to this view, the traditional intergenerational transfers in the family have been crowded out and replaced by those in the public sphere. In recent years, a growing body of research has demonstrated that substantial transfers between adult generations in the family …
The Battlegrounds of European Identity1
The study of European identity cannot take its clues from national identity, neither in form nor in substance. I begin with an examination of the general sociological concept of identity in order to uncover its resources for a more complex understanding of European identity. I then ask to what extent Europe really needs a European identity, and on what levels an identity may be found: in the received cultural ‘idea’ of Europe, in the cultural pra…
A life-course approach to fertility
The life-course approach as a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of longitudinal individual-level data has fundamentally changed the agenda of demographic research. However, these methodological innovations have not been paralleled by a si
Retirement and the moral economy
The social connectedness of older Europeans
Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our article shows that the population aged 50 or older is socially connected in several ways. The various dimensions of social connectedness turn out to be complementary rather than substitutive, except for the relationship between informal social relations and family relations, which tends to be characterized by substitution. Our longitudinal analysis rev…
Generationen in Familie und Gesellschaft
What childless older people give
With the increase of childlessness in European societies, its consequences have become a matter of concern. Studies in this field, however, have concentrated on what childless people lack and need in terms of social, financial and moral support. In contrast, this article focuses on what childless people give to their families, friends, unrelated others and to society at large. Using 2004 data on social support and financial transfers given and re…
Ageing as a Challenge for Sociological Theory
The sociology of ageing has often turned to general sociology in search of useful theoretical approaches, but there has been little cognitive influx back into general theory. By this one-sided relation, the sociology of ageing has typically constituted itself as an applied field. It can be argued, however, that the problems of an ageing society bring forth not only a new topical area but also a challenge for some of the foundations of sociologica…
Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergeneration…
Le cours de vie comme institution sociale
La démarche biographique doit tenir compte à la fois des questions de sociologie de structure et de sociologie d’action ou de sujet, comme cela a été bien exprimé par les organisateurs de ce colloque. En outre, cette démarche n’est pas seulement une démarche méthodique, mais aussi et surtout une démarche qui met en évidence certains « faits sociaux » : un certain type de règles qui organisent la vie sociale – on pourrait aussi dire un certain typ…
Childlessness and intergenerational transfers
In this introductory article for the special issue on Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers , we first discuss the prior research literature and then overview the presented contributions. Up to now, childless older adults have been treated for the most part as both homogeneous and a problematic group. This does not do justice to the different pathways to childlessness: there are those who actively forgo having children, those who defer bi…
The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies
As the pressure mounts to reduce the public costs of supporting rapidly aging societies, responsibility for supporting elderly people will increasingly fall on their family members. This essay explores the family's capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality pose special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. This essay mentions a series of studies suppo…
"Wie es zur „biographischen Methode" kam und was daraus geworden ist. Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Sozialforschung
Das gegenwärtige Interesse an der „biographischen Methode" bildet den Ausgangspunkt einer wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion ihrer Anfänge und Entwicklung mit dem Ziel, die Unklarheiten um diese Methode auszuräumen und ihre Lebenschancen zu beurteilen. Zunächst wird das klassische Werk von Thomas/Znaniecki "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America" diskutiert. Die entscheidende Phase seiner Wirkungsgeschichte war die Zeit um 1940, in der…
The Social Construction of Ageing through Work
The analysis of modern-age stratification systems must be based on the social organisation of work. This requires a theoretical approach that takes into account the structure of economic production, but also the fact that work is a meaningful activity of human beings within their life-world. The task therefore consists of integrating ‘materialist’ and ‘interpretive’ approaches to social reality. This integration is attempted in an examination of …
Explaining fertility
A theoretical approach to explaining fertility behavior in developed countries needs an integrative perspective. As fertility behavior takes place in a multi-level setting of biological, psychological, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions
You can't always get what you want
Using data from the European Social Survey fielded in 2010/11, this study presents new evidence on retirement preferences in Europe. It investigates retirees' preferred and actual ages of retirement , focusing on the retirement window 1995–2011. Moreover, it reports on the prevalence of mismatch in the form of involuntary retirement (retiring earlier than preferred) and involuntary work (retiring later than preferred). The study identifies substa…
Die zweite Lebenshälfte
Die Bedeutung der Rezeptionssituation für das Verständnis eines Fernsehfilms durch Kinder / The impact of the audience situation on children’s understanding of a television film
This experiment examines the impact of different audience situations and relates it to the learning of interpersonal skills. Forty-eight ten-year-old boys saw a half-hour television film in one of the following situations: alone, together with their mothers, or together with two friends. Then it was measured how well they recognized the motives, thoughts, and feelings of the persons acting in the film. The results show that the children usually w…
"Wie es zur „biographischen Methode" kam und was daraus geworden ist. Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Sozialforschung
Das gegenwärtige Interesse an der „biographischen Methode" bildet den Ausgangspunkt einer wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion ihrer Anfänge und Entwicklung mit dem Ziel, die Unklarheiten um diese Methode auszuräumen und ihre Lebenschancen zu beurteilen. Zunächst wird das klassische Werk von Thomas/Znaniecki "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America" diskutiert. Die entscheidende Phase seiner Wirkungsgeschichte war die Zeit um 1940, in der…
The Social Construction of Ageing through Work
The analysis of modern-age stratification systems must be based on the social organisation of work. This requires a theoretical approach that takes into account the structure of economic production, but also the fact that work is a meaningful activity of human beings within their life-world. The task therefore consists of integrating ‘materialist’ and ‘interpretive’ approaches to social reality. This integration is attempted in an examination of …
Biographie und soziale Wirklichkeit
Biographieforschung
„Biographie“ hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem reputierliehen Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung gemausert. Wie sich Eisenfeilspäne im Kraftfeld eines Magneten zu einem Muster anordnen, scheint der Topos immer mehr soziologische Themen und Aktivitäten in seinen Bann zu schlagen. Selbst dem unaufmerksamen Beobachter des 22. Deutschen Soziologentags 1984 in Dortmund mußte sich die Prominenz des Themas aufdrängen (vgl. Franz 1985:36–118; 161–…
Retirement and the moral economy
Ageing as a Challenge for Sociological Theory
The sociology of ageing has often turned to general sociology in search of useful theoretical approaches, but there has been little cognitive influx back into general theory. By this one-sided relation, the sociology of ageing has typically constituted itself as an applied field. It can be argued, however, that the problems of an ageing society bring forth not only a new topical area but also a challenge for some of the foundations of sociologica…
Le cours de vie comme institution sociale
La démarche biographique doit tenir compte à la fois des questions de sociologie de structure et de sociologie d’action ou de sujet, comme cela a été bien exprimé par les organisateurs de ce colloque. En outre, cette démarche n’est pas seulement une démarche méthodique, mais aussi et surtout une démarche qui met en évidence certains « faits sociaux » : un certain type de règles qui organisent la vie sociale – on pourrait aussi dire un certain typ…
Time for retirement
Engagement im Ruhestand
Die Institutionalisierung des Lebenslaufs
Die Anregung oder die Last, die eine Soziologie des Lebenslaufs für die Sozialforschung bedeutet, läßt sich leicht benennen: sie weist nach, daß das Leben eine zusätzliche Dimension aufweist, nämlich die zeitliche. Wer sich mit anderen Fragen beschäftigt, steht einmal mehr vor der Aufgabe, das Erhebungs- und Analyseprogramm entsprechend auszuweiten. Das Lebensalter (bzw. die Stellung im Lebenslauf) drängt sich als eine zusätzliche Varianzdimensio…
Private and public transfers between generations
In the conventional story of modernization, the emergence of the nuclear family and of public old age security have been seen as parallel and mutually reinforcing processes. According to this view, the traditional intergenerational transfers in the family have been crowded out and replaced by those in the public sphere. In recent years, a growing body of research has demonstrated that substantial transfers between adult generations in the family …
Einleitung
Das Generationenthema ist gleichermaßen populär wie kontrovers. Dies läßt sich am Zeitungskiosk genauso feststellen wie an den Inhaltsverzeichnissen der soziologischen Fachzeitschriften. Die Popularität des Themas zeigt sich an der Generationenetikettierungswut, von der Journalisten und Soziologen derzeit ergriffen sind. Die Bandbreite reicht von den 68er, 78er, 89er, 97er und 13th Generationen über die Schlaffi-, Cyber-, Techno- Golf- und Tamago…
Soziale Ungleichheit
Das Problem der Konzeptualisierung und Messung sozialer Ungleichheit gehört seit jeher zu den Kernproblemen der Soziologie und hat im Zuge des tiefen gesellschaftlichen Strukturwandels der letzten Jahrzehnte erneut die Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland läßt sich die Erforschung sozialer Ungleichheit grob in drei Phasen untergliedern, die drei divergierenden Ungleichheitskonzepten und Diskussionszusammenhängen ents…
The Battlegrounds of European Identity1
The study of European identity cannot take its clues from national identity, neither in form nor in substance. I begin with an examination of the general sociological concept of identity in order to uncover its resources for a more complex understanding of European identity. I then ask to what extent Europe really needs a European identity, and on what levels an identity may be found: in the received cultural ‘idea’ of Europe, in the cultural pra…
Generationen in Familie und Gesellschaft
Die zweite Lebenshälfte
Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft
Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft
Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies
European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the European Union and categories of welfare entitlement. Yet recent empirical data suggests that income gaps are growing and that within the physical borders of Europe there is a greater cultural and ethnic heterogeneity than ever before. Effectively, many of the processes of incl…
Contemporary Switzerland
This volume presents the major findings involved in a large scale research programme to describe and analyse the transformation of contemporary Swiss society. The contributions focus on three key area
Generational Changes and Generational Equity
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Contemporary Switzerland
Die zweite Lebenshälfte
Aging and Justice
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (10 works) · Population (9 works)