Professorship of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies

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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.

  1. 2024
  2. DGS-Sektionenkonferenz 2024

    Lars Alberth (Organiser), Alexandra König (Organiser) & Jessica Schwittek (Organiser)

    15.09.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 8th DARE Conference – Decisions, Assessment, Risk, and Evidence in Social Work

    Lars Alberth (Organiser)

    19.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  4. Das Private im Fokus der Sozialarbeit: Ein kindheitssoziologischer Blick auf Elternschaft

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    24.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Die Institutionalisierung der Kindzentrierung als sozialpolitische Orientierung und professioneller Wissensbestand

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    20.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. 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)

    18.04.202420.04.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Verschweigen, Beschwichtigen, Rechtfertigen. Zu den institutionellen Reaktionen auf die Stimme der Kinder im Kinderschutz

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    11.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 2023
  9. Digitale Vortagsreihe: Social Pedagogy in Diverse Societies

    Anke Karber (Organiser), Lars Alberth (Organiser), Philipp Sandermann (Organiser), Claudia Equit (Organiser) & Birte Siem (Organiser)

    14.11.202330.01.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  10. Aus der Perspektive von Kindern (forschen)?!

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    13.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung: Problematisierungen, Standards und Strategien

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    27.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. ISA XX World Congress of Sociology

    Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Organiser)

    28.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. 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)

    27.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Absent Bodies and “Institutional Doppelgängers” – on the Generational Structure of a Family Court’s Space

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    26.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Wie ging es den Kindern in der Pandemie: Wissenslücken und der marginale Status von Kindern

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    22.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Studentische Schreibkonventionen als Arbeitsbogen – Werkstattbericht aus einem Schreibseminar mit Master-Studierenden

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    15.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. 2022
  18. Wie ist Kindheitsbezogenes Wissen in Politik und der sozialen Arbeit verankert?

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    03.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Kongress - 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

    Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Fran Osrecki (Organiser)

    29.09.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Kongress - 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

    Lars Alberth (Organiser), Christine Barwick (Organiser) & Paul Eisewicht (Organiser)

    28.09.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Weder Werden noch Normtransfer. Für eine kindheitssoziologische Theorie von Sozialisation und sozialer Reproduktion

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    27.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Symposium: Ethical Dilemma in Participatory Childhood Research – International Perspectives

    Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Magdalena Joos (Speaker)

    15.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. 2021
  24. 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)

    11.11.202113.11.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. Multi problem families”, “overburdened mothers”, and where is the child? Physical violence and symbolic power of definition

    Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker)

    01.09.202103.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  26. Gemeinsamer Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS)

    Lars Alberth (Organiser), Christoph Burmeister (Organiser) & Raphaela Kogler (Organiser)

    24.08.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  27. Violence Against Children – between Denial and Prosecution

    Lars Alberth (Speaker) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker)

    01.07.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  28. Kindheit und die Coronakrise: Resilienz oder Stimme?

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    26.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. Digitale Vortragsreihe: Troubling Childhoods?

    Lars Alberth (Organiser)

    22.04.202101.07.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  30. ISA IV Forum of Sociology

    Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Gary Bratchford (Organiser)

    26.02.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. ISA IV Forum of Sociology

    Bhula Badra (Organiser), Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Organiser)

    24.02.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  32. Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    12.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. 2020
  34. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020

    Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Alexandra König (Organiser)

    17.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Violence against children in times of COVID-19 – A blind spot.

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    19.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. The victimization of children as a social problem and representation

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    06.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. 2012
  38. Um wen sorgt sich der Kinderschutz?

    Lars Alberth (Speaker), Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Speaker) & Steffen Eisentraut (Speaker)

    01.10.201205.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch