This volume summarizes the presentations of the Nuremberg-Krakow-Linz-Skopje-Research Seminar 2007. The main aim of the research seminar was to bring together young scientists of different universities and to unable them to present their research results under the supervision of senior researchers and professors. The papers cover different fields reflecting the main research areas of the participating institutions. They discuss central issues like education for a multicultural society and they report on concrete empirical research – based on surveys as well as on experiments. Central issues are: education, multicultural society, participation in school and child development, educational expenditures of households, innovative methods of university teaching, downward mobility, flexicurity, social and individual norms of fairness, stalking.
- Johann Bacher is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute of Sociology and of the Department of Empirical Research, Johannes Kepler University Linz; Head of the Department of Criminology, Johannes Kepler University Linz.
- Jaroslaw Gorniak is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology of Economy, Education and Social Research Methods at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Cracow, and the Center of Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Jagiellonian University Cracow.
- Marian Niezgoda is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology of Social Communication, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Cracow, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow.
This volume summarizes the presentations of the Nuremberg-Krakow-Linz-Skopje-Research Seminar 2007. The main aim of the research seminar was to bring together young scientists of different universities and to unable them to present their research results under the supervision of senior researchers and professors. The papers cover different fields reflecting the main research areas of the participating institutions. They discuss central issues like education for a multicultural society and they report on concrete empirical research – based on surveys as well as on experiments. Central issues are: education, multicultural society, participation in school and child development, educational expenditures of households, innovative methods of university teaching, downward mobility, flexicurity, social and individual norms of fairness, stalking.
- Johann Bacher is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute of Sociology and of the Department of Empirical Research, Johannes Kepler University Linz; Head of the Department of Criminology, Johannes Kepler University Linz.
- Jaroslaw Gorniak is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology of Economy, Education and Social Research Methods at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Cracow, and the Center of Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Jagiellonian University Cracow.
- Marian Niezgoda is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology of Social Communication, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Cracow, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow.
Johann Bacher