Prof. Dr. Marina Hennig

Research Interests
Social Networking Analysis, Microsociology, Empirical Social Research, Gender and Family, Social State und Social Inequality

Academic Background
Since 2011, Marina Hennig has been Professor of Network Research and Family Sociology at the University of Mainz. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as Project Leader at the Scientific Centre for Social Research in Berlin (WZB), carried out multiple guest and acting professorships between 2008 and 2011, at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. From 2009 to 2010, she was lecturer at TU Chemnitz. She studied Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and completed her degree in 1993 with the thesis ‘Chances or risks for Girls? An Attempt to approximate gender specific effects of a re-organization of the job market.’ She then worked as project member before going on to work as Research Assistant at the Institute for Sociology at Humboldt University from 1998 to 2008. In 1999 she gained her PhD from Humboldt University, with her thesis entitled “Changes in Values and Attitudes in Terms of Authoritarianism of German Parents Over Time’. Subsequently, with the examination of social networks and their supporting function, she developed a work focus which still influences her research profile. In 2006, she qualified to lecture in ‘Individuals and their Social Relationships. A Theory of Networking as Contribution to Overcoming the Community-Society Dichotomy’, also at Humboldt University.

Publications (Top 5)

2012

(with Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Pfeffer and Ines Mergel:) Studying Social Networks. A Guide to Empirical Research. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag & The University of Chicago Press.

2012

(ed.) Welfare State Regulations and Mothers’ Labour Market Participation in an Internationally Comparative Perspective. Special Issue in the “International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy”, 32/9,10.

2009

Rollenverhalten und soziale Netzwerke in großstädtischen Familien. In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung. Journal of Family Research 3. P. 311-326.

2007

Re-evaluating the Community Question from a German Perspective In: Barry Wellman (ed.): Social Networks. An international journal of structural analysis. Special Section: Personal Networks., 29/3. P. 375-391.

2006

Individuen und ihre sozialen Beziehungen. Reihe: Forschung, Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.