Completed research projects
As part of the project Um die Geschlechter werben, more than 80 advertising posters in Dresden's urban space were documented and evaluated insofar as they contribute to a staging of a gender arrangement, (re)produce a hierarchization of gender categories and/or sexualize the bodies depicted.
Study on the housing situation and housing preferences of people with limited mobility in Dresden ( WoMoDD)
Duration: 11/2016 - 04/2018
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Sociological research project in the future concept of TU Dresden: "Gendered University: Gender Orders at TU Dresden " The aim was to analyze the gender orders at TU Dresden and to work out possible starting points for their change.
Children and parents in binuclear continuation families
This study investigates negotiation processes of social reality and self-concepts of so-called binuclear continuation families. The focus is therefore on their familial self-conceptions and the everyday production and construction processes on which these are based.
Duration: 01/2009 - 05/2016
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Sub-project O'Transcendence and Common Sense in Private Forms of Life' at the Collaborative Research Center 804 at the TUD Dresden University of Technology: Private forms of life are undergoing major changes. On the one hand, marriage and family relationships are becoming more diverse and at the same time more unstable. On the other hand, the family remains the central source of community values. However, the cultural conditions that accompany these upheavals have hardly been investigated to date. This project therefore focused on the conditions and resources that can keep couple and parent-child relationships lasting and stable.
Cooperation between schools with all-day programs and extracurricular partners
Funding: Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung gGmbH, Service Center for All-Day Programs in Saxony
Duration: November 2009 - May 2010
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Staff members: Claudia Jerzak, M.A., Dipl. Soz. Rüdiger Laskowski
Publication: Final report
Saxon Higher Education Report 2008
On behalf of the SMWK, a Saxon Higher Education Report was compiled for the third time. The report covers all undergraduate degree programs offered at Saxon universities. The report contains a wealth of higher education statistics for each degree program.
Capabilities of all-day school projects
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, European Social Fund
Duration: April 2008 - November 2009
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Staff members: Katharina Weinhold, M.A., Dipl. Soz. Rüdiger Laskowski
Publication: Final report
Dresden Family Studies
Funding: City of Dresden
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Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Winfried Killisch (Center for Demographic Change)
Collaborators: Kris Kaufmann; Mike Kühne
Publication: The research reports on the two sub-studies have been published as part of the Dresden Living Conditions Report.
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Demand for opening hours in daycare centers in the city of Dresden
Funding: City of Dresden
Duration: March - June 2008
Directors: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Dr. Cornelia Wustmann (Centre "Childhood in Research - Science and Practice in Dialogue")
Publication: Need for opening hours in day care centers in the city of Dresden. Study commissioned by the Eigenbetrieb Kindertageseinrichtungen der Stadt Dresden.
The university location Dresden in demographic change
Funding: City of Dresden, City Planning Office
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Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Winfried Killisch (Center for Demographic Change)
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Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 2008 in Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: January 2008 to May 2008
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter
Collaborators: Dipl. Soz. Rüdiger Laskowski
Publication:
Higher Education Report Saxony 2007: Continuous monitoring of study conditions and study quality in the Free State of Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Duration: 2007-2008
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
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Small elementary school in rural areas
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: 2006-2007
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Collaborators: Michael Fücker and Alexander Otto
Publication:
Final report 'Small school - educational provision in rural areas'
Evaluation and documentation of the future workshop "Wehlen macht Schule"
Universities in demographic change: The situation in Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts
Duration: 2005-2006
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Winfried Killisch
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Skills development for shaping transitions into the labor market - innovative fields of employment, strengthening entrepreneurship
Funding: Federal Ministry
Duration: 2004-2006
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Collaborators: Bernhard Wager, M.A.; Dipl. Soz. Rüdiger Laskowski
Publication:
Subject choices of women and men at Saxon universities
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts as part of the HWP equal opportunities program
Duration: 2004-2006
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
Staff member: Dr. Berith Möller
Publication:
Higher Education Report Saxony 2006: Continuous monitoring of study conditions and study quality in the Free State of Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Duration: 2004-2006
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
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Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 2006 in Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: January 2006 to May 2006
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter
Collaborators: Dipl. Soz. Rüdiger Laskowski
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Graduate survey of graduates of all faculties of the TU Dresden
The graduates of all TU Dresden faculties were surveyed in two waves. In the second wave, in addition to the 'new' graduates, the respondents from the first wave were surveyed a second time. Written survey.
Funding: TU Dresden
Duration: 2000-2008
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
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Educational and career paths of scholarship holders of the Hans Böckler Foundation
Funding: Hans Böckler Foundation
Duration: 2003-2005
Directors: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter
Staff members: Dipl.-Päd. Dana Frowieser; Dipl.-Soz. Mike Kühne
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Second Dresden Child Study
in close cooperation with the city of Dresden and the Dresden child protection associations.
Written survey of approx. 1800 children from third to ninth grade.
Funding: Stadtsparkasse Dresden, City of Dresden
Duration: September 2004 to September 2005
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz
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Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 2004 in Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: January 2004 to May 2004
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter
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Institutionalization processes in dual relationships
Sub-project within the framework of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 537 "Institutionality and Historicity" at the TU Dresden.
Open interviews; film analyses, analysis of diaries and guidebooks.
Funding: DFG
Duration: since January 2000
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Publication: Research proposal July 1999; interim report April 2001
Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 2002 in Saxony
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: January 2002 to May 2002
Head: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz and Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter
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Dresden Children's Study
in close cooperation with the city of Dresden and the Dresden child protection associations.
Written survey of approx. 2000 children from third to ninth grade.
Funding: Stadtsparkasse Dresden, Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk
Duration: September 1999 to July 2000
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Publication: Children and Youth Research Group at the TU Dresden, Kindsein in Dresden. Results of the first Dresden children's study. Dresden 2000
Scientific study accompanying the Dresden refuge for girls affected by violence
commissioned by the Saxon State Chancellery (together with Prof. Dr. Heide Funk, HTWS Mittweida).
Biographical interviews with girls in refuge, expert interviews with staff, participant observations.
Funding: Saxon State Chancellery, Office for the Equality of Women and Men
Duration: May 1997 to October 2000; subsequently extended until March 2001 for the preparation of a symposium and the creation of a traveling exhibition
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Publication: Möller, Berith & Funk, Heide & Lenz, Karl: Final report of the scientific monitoring of the model project. Ed. by the Saxon State Chancellery. Dresden 2001
Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 2000 in Saxony
commissioned by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture (together with Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter, TU Dresden).
Written survey of approx. 1200 school leavers from the 1999/2000 graduating class.
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: November 1999 to April 2000
Publication: Wolter, Andrä & Lenz, Karl & Winter, Jana: Trend reversal in the inclination to study? The study and career choices of students in the 2000 graduating class in Saxony. Dresden 2000
Image of the TUD Dresden University of Technology - Survey of students and relatives
Written survey of 1000 students and 500 employees of TU Dresden.
Funding: TU Dresden
Duration: September 1999 to April 2000
Publication: Lenz, Karl & Wolter, Andrä & Winter, Jana: The Image of the TUD Dresden University of Technology. Part 1: The Technical University from the perspective of its members. Dresden
Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 1998 in Saxony
commissioned by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture (together with Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter, TU Dresden).
Written survey of approx. 1200 school leavers from the 1997/1998 graduating class.
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: November 1997 to April 1998
Publication: Wolter, Andrä & Lenz, Karl & Wagner, Bernhard: What comes after the Abitur? The study and career choices of students in the 1998 graduating class in Saxony, published by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture. Dresden 1998
Study and career choices of school leavers with higher education entrance qualification 1996 in Saxony
commissioned by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture (together with Prof. Dr. Andrä Wolter, TU Dresden).
Written survey of approx. 1200 school leavers from the 1995/1996 graduating class.
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
Duration: November 1995 to April 1996
Publication: Wolter, Andrä & Lenz, Karl & Wagner, Bernhard: Die Studien und Berufswahl von Studienberechtigten des Abschlussjahrgangs 1996 in Sachsen, ed. by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture. Dresden 1996
Everyday life of young people - before and after reunification
aspart of the scientific monitoring of the "Action Program against Violence and Aggression" of the Federal Ministry for Women and Youth.
Open interviews with 14 young people.
Funding: BMJF
Duration: November 1993 to December 1994
Publication: Böhnisch, Lothar (ed.): Final report of the scientific monitoring of the "Action Program against Violence and Aggression". Bonn
Student Housing in Saxony - Housing in the Student Living Context
commissioned by the Studentenwerke in Saxony and the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts.
Group discussions with residents of halls of residence, owner-occupiers and parent residents.
Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Duration: November 1993 to October 1994
Publication: Lenz, Karl & Wagner, Bernhard: Wohnen im Wohnheim: Vor- und Nachteile einer Wohnform aus der Sicht der Studierenden. In: Saxon State Ministry for Art and Science (ed.). 1995