US-Germany Collaborative Research: Perceptions of Fairness: Attitudes about Opportunity and Status Among Women Scientists in Germany and the US

0233241汉森该奖项支持天主教大学的桑德拉·汉森和一位初级教员与德国慕尼黑大学社会学系的斯蒂芬·富克斯合作。该项目将分析前东德、西德和美国女性在科技职业中对机会、地位和不平等的态度差异。它还将比较女性科学家与非科学家和男性科学家的态度。随着时间的推移，女性科学家态度的变化也将被考虑在内。一种假设是，前东德女科学家的经历将导致一组与西德和美国截然不同的想法，这些想法涉及如何取得成功，关于她们自己的社会经济地位和流动性，以及不平等的原因。在社会流动研究的一个重要领域内审查与流动有关的态度，因为这些态度使人们深入了解政治和社会经济制度结构与个人和国家一级流动态度结构之间的关系。该项目还有一个教育目的。该项目将允许一名初级教员从在另一个国家进行研究中受益。她将在学习重要的新技术技能的同时，提高对世界的欣赏。

0233241HansonThis award supports Sandra Hanson and a junior faculty member from Catholic University in a collaboration with Stefan Fuchs of the Department of Sociology at the University of Munich, Germany. The project will analyze differences in attitudes about opportunity, status, and inequality among women in science and technology occupations in the former East Germany, West Germany, and the US. It will also compare attitudes of female scientists with non-scientists and male scientists. Changes over time in women scientists' attitudes will also be considered. One hypothesis is that the experiences of women scientists in the former East Germany will result in a very different set of ideas about what it takes to get ahead, about their own socio-economic position and mobility, and about reasons for inequality than will be found among from West Germany and the US. Examination of mobility-related attitudes in an important area of social mobility research since those attitudes provide insight into the relation between the structure of political and socio-economic systems and the structure of mobility attitudes at the individual and country levels.The project also has an educational objective. The project will allow a junior faculty member to benefit from performing research in another country. She will develop a heightened appreciation of the world while also learning important new technical skills.