Hans-Peter Blossfeld, born in Munich, Germany, in 1954. Ph.D. from the Universität Mannheim. Associate Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
(Fellow 1 September 1988 – 31 July 1989)
During my stay at NIAS I continued my theoretical and empirical research on the socio-structural aspects of the life course, the collective histories of birth cohorts, and the relation between life courses and long-term social change. I completed a monograph on career processes and cohort differences of German men and women, born in 1929-31, 1939-41, and 1949-51.