Professorship of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies
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Organisation profile
In everyday life, children are seen primarily as beings in need of education and learning who naturally lack experience and knowledge. However, this not only underestimates the practical achievements that children contribute to the maintenance of everyday order, but also hides essential aspects of the social organization of childhood.
In contrast, we essentially understand children as an age group characterized by social inequalities, who are assigned fewer rights, duties, and resources compared to others (primarily adults, but also older children or adolescents) – regardless of the actual contributions children perform in everyday life.
As a category of social inequality, childhood cannot be thought of in a homogeneous way, neither historically nor globally, but remains bound to socially varying structures of growing up. Accordingly, childhood is understood as a highly institutionalized life phase, whose definition and shaping by school, family, and expert entrepreneurships structure the objective chances for future life courses of young people, but which also make up a central element of social order in general.
Hence, our focus is the social organization of childhood by its respective institutions (especially professions) as well as the resulting consequences for involved groups of actors, foremost the children themselves. Our research is concerned with the degree to which children are taken into account in child protection, by the knowledge about children that is collected (or lacking) and made available and used (for example, about their experiences of violence and in the pandemic), and by the spatial-material structuring of childhoods.
- 2024
DGS-Sektionenkonferenz 2024
Lars Alberth (Organiser), Alexandra König (Organiser) & Jessica Schwittek (Organiser)
15.09.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8th DARE Conference – Decisions, Assessment, Risk, and Evidence in Social Work
Lars Alberth (Organiser)
19.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Das Private im Fokus der Sozialarbeit: Ein kindheitssoziologischer Blick auf Elternschaft
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
24.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Institutionalisierung der Kindzentrierung als sozialpolitische Orientierung und professioneller Wissensbestand
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
20.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Jahrestagung der Sektion Soziologie der Kindheit in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2024
Lars Alberth (Organiser), Tanja Betz (Organiser), Karin Kämpfe (Organiser) & Britta Menzel (Organiser)
18.04.2024 → 20.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Verschweigen, Beschwichtigen, Rechtfertigen. Zu den institutionellen Reaktionen auf die Stimme der Kinder im Kinderschutz
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
11.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2023
Digitale Vortagsreihe: Social Pedagogy in Diverse Societies
Anke Karber (Organiser), Lars Alberth (Organiser), Philipp Sandermann (Organiser), Claudia Equit (Organiser) & Birte Siem (Organiser)
14.11.2023 → 30.01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Aus der Perspektive von Kindern (forschen)?!
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
13.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung: Problematisierungen, Standards und Strategien
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
27.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ISA XX World Congress of Sociology
Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Organiser)
28.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Preserving a respectable self – victim narratives in face of institutional programs and closed awareness contexts of the private environment
Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker)
27.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Absent Bodies and “Institutional Doppelgängers” – on the Generational Structure of a Family Court’s Space
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
26.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wie ging es den Kindern in der Pandemie: Wissenslücken und der marginale Status von Kindern
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
22.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Studentische Schreibkonventionen als Arbeitsbogen – Werkstattbericht aus einem Schreibseminar mit Master-Studierenden
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
15.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2022
Wie ist Kindheitsbezogenes Wissen in Politik und der sozialen Arbeit verankert?
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
03.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kongress - 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Fran Osrecki (Organiser)
29.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kongress - 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Lars Alberth (Organiser), Christine Barwick (Organiser) & Paul Eisewicht (Organiser)
28.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Weder Werden noch Normtransfer. Für eine kindheitssoziologische Theorie von Sozialisation und sozialer Reproduktion
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
27.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Symposium: Ethical Dilemma in Participatory Childhood Research – International Perspectives
Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Magdalena Joos (Speaker)
15.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kinderschutz als professionelle Zuständigkeit: Rhetorische Konstruktionen abseits generational strukturierter Gewalt.
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
13.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2021
Jahrestagung der Sektion Soziologie der Kindheit in der DGS
Lars Alberth (Organiser), Verena Marke (Organiser), Christoph T. Burmeister (Organiser), Nicoletta Eunicke (Organiser), Markus Kluge (Organiser) & Jessica Schwittek (Organiser)
11.11.2021 → 13.11.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Multi problem families”, “overburdened mothers”, and where is the child? Physical violence and symbolic power of definition
Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker)
01.09.2021 → 03.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gemeinsamer Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS)
Lars Alberth (Organiser), Christoph Burmeister (Organiser) & Raphaela Kogler (Organiser)
24.08.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Violence Against Children – between Denial and Prosecution
Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker)
01.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kindheit und die Coronakrise: Resilienz oder Stimme?
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
26.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digitale Vortragsreihe: Troubling Childhoods?
Lars Alberth (Organiser)
22.04.2021 → 01.07.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ISA IV Forum of Sociology
Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Gary Bratchford (Organiser)
26.02.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ISA IV Forum of Sociology
Bhula Badra (Organiser), Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Organiser)
24.02.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
12.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2020
40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020
Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Alexandra König (Organiser)
17.09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Violence against children in times of COVID-19 – A blind spot.
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
19.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The victimization of children as a social problem and representation
Lars Alberth (Speaker)
06.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2012
Um wen sorgt sich der Kinderschutz?
Lars Alberth (Speaker), Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker) & Steffen Eisentraut (Speaker)
01.10.2012 → 05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research