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Prof. Dr. Jan Delhey (on leave)



Professor of Sociology
School of Humanities & Social Sciences - SHSS
http://shss.jacobs-university.de/shss
Mailing Address:

Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Email: j.delhey@jacobs-university.de
Telephone: +49 421 200-3492
Fax: +49 421 200-3303
Office: Research IV, Room 65
Research Interests:
Social Inequality and stratification
Quality of life and subjective well-being (happiness)
Social capital, trust and social cohesion
European integration
Modernisation
University Education:
2000
PhD Sociology, Free University Berlin

1995
Diploma in Sociology, Communication Science and Marketing, University of Bamberg
Fellowships and Awards:
"Thyssen award" for best German-speaking journal article in the social sciences, Volume 2002
 
Research and Teaching Positions:
1998 - 2006
Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Research Units - "Social Structure and Social Reporting" and "Inequality and Social Integration"

2001 - 2006
Lecturer for Sociology at Free University Berlin, Institute for Sociology
 
Other Professional Activities:

Member of the board of governors, International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS)
 
Member of the editorial board, International Encylopdia for Quality of Life Research
 

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Happiness Studies

 
Funded Projects:

"Chinese Perceptions of the EU", European Framework Program, EU-SSH, 2009-2012, Fördersumme 177.900 Euro (mit Christian Welzel and Nicola Spakowski)

 

„Das Europa der Leute. Interaktion und Identität der EU-Bürger zwischen Nationalstaat und Weltgesellschaft“ (The New Europeans: Cross-border Interactions and Transnational Identities), funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2012-2015, 314,000 Euro. Part of the DFG-Research Group „Europäische Vergesellschaftungsprozesse“ (Horizontal Europeanization), http://horizontal-europeanization.eu

 

„Metastudie gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt“ (Meta-analysis Social Cohesion), Bertelsmann Foundation, 2011, 45,000 Euro (with Klaus Boehnke).

Publications:
[selected]

Books and edited volumes

Brockmann, Hilke/Delhey, Jan (eds.) (2010): The Dynamics of Happiness. Special issue of Social Indicators Research, Vol. 97, No. 1.

Delhey, Jan (2001): Osteuropa zwischen Marx und Markt. Soziale Ungleichheit und soziales Bewußtsein nach dem Kommunismus. Hamburg, Krämer-Verlag, Reihe Beiträge zur Osteuropaforschung, Band 4.

Journal articles


Delhey, Jan/Newton, Ken/Welzel, Christian (forthcoming): How General is Trust in 'Most People'? Solving the Radius of Trust Problem. American Sociological Review (accepted May 9, 2011).

Delhey Jan/Kohler, Ulrich (2011): Is Happiness Inequality Immune to Income Inequality? New Evidence Using Instrument-Effect Corrected Standard Deviations. Social Science Research, Vol. 40, p. 742-756.


Brockmann, Hilke/Delhey, Jan (2010): Introduction: The Dynamics of Happiness and the Dynamics of Happiness Research. Social Indicators Research. Vol. 97, No. 1, p. 1-5.


Delhey, Jan (2010): From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective. Social Indicators Research. Vol. 97, No. 1, p. 65-84.

Brockmann, Hilke/Delhey, Jan/Welzel, Christian/Yuan, Hao (2009): The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy. Journal of Happiness Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 387-405.

Delhey, Jan (2007): Grenzüberschreitender Austausch und Vertrauen. Ein Test der Transaktionsthese für Europa. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 47, pp. 141-162.


Delhey, Jan (2007): Do Enlargements Make the European Union Less Cohesive?
An Analysis of Trust Between EU Nationalities. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 45, pp. 253-279.

Delhey, Jan/Kohler, Ulrich (2006): From Nationally Bounded to Pan-European Inequalities? On the Importance of Foreign Countries as Reference Groups. European Sociological Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 125-140.

Delhey, Jan/Newton, Kenneth (2005): Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism? European Sociological Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, 311-327.

Delhey, Jan (2005): "Das Abenteuer der Europäisierung, Überlegungen zu einem soziologischen Begriff europäischer Integration und zur Stellung der Soziologie zu den Integration Studies", in: Soziologie, 34. Jg, Heft 1, 2005, S. 7-27.

Delhey, Jan (2004): "Nationales und transnationales Vertrauen in der Europäischen Union", Leviathan. Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften, Jg. 32, H. 1, 2004, S. 15-45.

Delhey, Jan (2003): "Europäische Integration, Modernisierung und Konvergenz. Zum Einfluss der EU auf die Konvergenz der Mitgliedsländer", Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Jg. 13, H. 4, 2003, S. 565-584.

Delhey, Jan/Newton, Kenneth (2003): "Who Trusts? The Origins of Social Trust in Seven Societies", European Societies, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 93-137.

Delhey, Jan (2002): "Korruption in Bewerberländern zur Europäischen Union. Institutionenqualität und Korruption in vergleichender Perspektive", Soziale Welt, Jg. 53, H. 3, S. 345-366. (ausgezeichnet mit Thyssen-Preis 2002)

Delhey, Jan/Böhnke, Petra/Habich, Roland/Zapf, Wolfgang (2002): "Quality of Life in a European Perspective. The Euromodule as a New Instrument for Comparative Welfare Research", Social Indicators Research, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 161-176.

Zapf, Wolfgang/Habich, Roland, Bulmahn, Thomas, Delhey, Jan (2002): "The Case of Germany: Transformation through Unification", Sisyphos. Social Studies, Vol. XV, 2001, pp. 11-38.

Delhey, Jan (2001): "The Prospects of Catching up for New EU Members. Lessons for the Accession Countries to the European Union from Previous Enlargements", Social Indicators Research, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 205-231.

Contributions in edited volumes

Jan Delhey (forthcoming 2011): Trust in Co-Europeans and Support for European Unification: Extending the Identity Approach. In: Kania, Katia (Hg.): The European Blues. Routledge.

Immerfall, Stefan/ Priller, Eckard/Delhey, Jan (2010): Association and Community. In: Immerfall, Stefan/Therborn, Göran (Ed.): Handbook of European Societies, Springer, pp. 7-38.

Delhey, Jan (2010): Die osterweiterte EU – ein optimaler Integrationsraum? In: Eigmüller, Monika/Mau, Steffen (Hg.): Gesellschaftstheorie und Europapolitik. Sozialwissenschaftliche Ansätze zur Europaforschung. Wiesbaden, VS-Verlag, S. 300-318.

Delhey, Jan/Keck, Wolfgang (2008): Perceptions of social tensions: different challenges for old and new member states, in: Alber, Jens/Fahey, Tony/Saraceno, Chiara (eds.): Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged Europe. London, Routledge, pp. 328-351.

Delhey, Jan/Kohler, Ulrich (2008): Where we stand in Europe: National Conditions, EU average and individual life satisfaction, in: Alber, Jens/Fahey, Tony/Saraceno, Chiara (eds.): Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged Europe. London, Routledge, pp. 385-404.

Delhey, Jan (2006): Erweiterungen contra Integration? Zum Verhältnis von territorialer Expansion und innerer Integration der Europäischen Union, in: Alber, Jens/Merkel, Wolfgang (eds.): Europas Osterweiterung: das Ende der Vertiefung? WZB-Jahrbuch 2005. Berlin, Edition Sigma, S. 309-332.

Delhey, Jan/Kohler, UIrich (2006): Europäisierung sozialer Ungleichheit: die Perspektive der Referenzgruppenforschung. In: Heidenreich, Martin (ed.): Die Europäisierung sozialer Ungleichheit. Frankfurt/New York, Campus-Verlag, S. 342-360.

Delhey, Jan/Tobsch, Verena (2003): "Satisfaction with Democracy and its Sources: The Cases of Hungary and East Germany", in Pollack, Detlef et al. (ed.): Political Culture in Post-Communist Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate, pp. 115-131.

Zapf, Wolfgang/Habich, Roland/Bulmahn, Thomas/Delhey, Jan (2002): "The Case of Germany: Transformation through Unification", in Adamski, Wladyslaw/Machonin, Pavel/Zapf, Wolfgang (eds.): Structural Change and Modernization in Post-socialist Societies. Hamburg, Krämer-Verlag, Reihe Beiträge zur Osteuropaforschung, Band 7, pp. 229-296.

Böhnke, Petra/Delhey, Jan (2001): "Lebensstandard und Einkommensarmut. Plädoyer für eine erweiterte Armutsforschung", in Barlösius, Eva/Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang (eds.): Die Armut der Gesellschaft. Opladen, Leske + Budrich, S. 315-335.

Reports

Delhey, Jan (2004): Life satisfaction in the enlarged Europe. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Office for Official Publications of the European