Karin Flaake is a German sociologist and professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Her publications on the adolescence of young women and men are part of the literature of socio-psychologically oriented gender research. Another focus of her work is on the chances of changing gender relations in families.
Biography
Karin Flaake studied sociology and psychoanalytic social psychology in Frankfurt / Main, then from 1972 to 1975 was research associate at the sociological seminar of the University of Göttingen, working on a research project on political learning processes in general education schools. From 1975 to 1989 she was a research associate at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt / Main, working on research projects in education and sociology. Afterwards, she took her habilitation on the topic: :Gender-specific patterns of identity and vocational orientations of teachers". From 1982 to 1986, she had training at the Institute for Group Analysis Heidelbergan worked with the Frankfurt Working Group for Psychoanalytical Education. From 1991 to 1994 she was professor at the Psychological Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, working in the field of feminist science. From 1994 to the end of 2007 she was Professor of Sociology with a focus on women's and gender studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Flaake is - especially with Heike Fleßner - co-founder of the Study Program Women's and Gender Studies and the Center for Interdisciplinary Wome's and Gender Studies. Her work focuses on the following topics: Sociological and psychoanalytical-socio- psychological gender research, in particular: Analyzes of socialization and gender, social psychology of gender relations, gender relations in the educational sector, gender relations in families. Empirical investigations with psychoanalytical-hermeneutic methods of text interpretation.
Scientific advisory board of the journal gender. Journal of Gender, Culture and Society.
Publications (selection)
Books
Die Jugendlichen und ihr Verhältnis zum Körper, Stuttgart 2019
Neue Mütter – neue Väter. Eine empirische Studie zu veränderten Geschlechterbeziehungen in Familien, Giessen 2014
With Heike Fleßner, Angelika I. Müller, Juliane Pegel : Familiengerechte Hochschule. Daten – Herausforderungen – Perspektiven.Oldenburg 2008
With Kristina Hackmann, Irene Pieper-Seier, Stephanie Radtke: Professorinnen in der Mathematik - Berufliche Werdegänge und Verortungen in der Disziplin. Bielefeld 2006
With Almut Kirschbaum, Dorothee Noeres und Heike Fleßner: Promotionsförderung und Geschlecht. Zur Bedeutung geschlechtsspezifisch wirkender Auswahlprozesse bei der Förderung von Promotionen an niedersächsischen Hochschulen. Oldenburg 2005
With Vera King, ed.: Männliche Adoleszenz. Sozialisation und Bildungsprozesse zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein. Frankfurt a.M./New York 2005
Körper, Sexualität und Geschlecht. Studien zur Adoleszenz junger Frauen, Gießen 2001
With Vera King ed.: Weibliche Adoleszenz. Zur Sozialisation junger Frauen, Frankfurt a.M./New York 1992
Berufliche Orientierungen von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern. Eine empirische Untersuchung, Frankfurt a.M./New York 1989
Encyclopedia chapters
Sexualität, in: Gudrun Ehlert u.a. : Wörterbuch Soziale Arbeit und Geschlecht, Weinheim und München 2011, S. 368
