Karl Ulrich Mayer#
| Membership Number: | 179 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://sociology.yale.edu/people/karl-mayer |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2008 Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- since 2007 Co-Director, Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University
- since 2005 Chair, Department of Sociology, Yale University
- 2003-2007 Founding Director, Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University
- 2003-2008 Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Yale University
- since 2003Professor, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
- since 1984 Honorarprofessur (Courtesy Appointment), Free University, Berlin
- 1983-2005 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Head of the Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course
- since 1983Wissenschaftliches Mitglied (Scientific Member) of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
- 1980-1983 Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim
Fields of Scholarship
- Social Stratification and Mobility
- Sociology of the Life Course
- Social Demography
- Occupational Structures and Labor Market Processes
- Sociology of Aging Populations
- Comparative Welfare States
- Methods of Survey Research
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1996 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Founding Member, European Academy of Sociology
- 2004 M.A. (Honors) Yale University
- 2009 President-Elect Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Association
