Paul Sinzig, M.A. at the Chair of Sociology of Work

Paul Sinzig is a life course researcher and work sociologist focusing on the interplay between paid and unpaid work, gender, family, and social policies. He is intrigued by the sequences, turning points, and interactions between work and family trajectories. More specifically, how does gender ideologies influence work or family trajectories and how do they influence each other? How are career or family transitions or the absence of these shaping individuals' life courses? And how do individual choices and transitions depend on one's own past experiences, values, and aspirations? Such questions are driving my research interest while at their core all of them deal with social inequalities. Currently he is exploring the field of leadership on as an epitome of constraints and interconnections between gender, occupational aspirations, discrimination, and familial responsibilities.
Next to the research I teach in the field of sociology of work, gender segregation in work, and philosophical ways of looking at work and its boundaries. His teaching involves academic writing techniques, critical thinking, and the analysis of empirical-analytical research. Additionally he gives talks about scientific writing focusing on the writing process, argumentation, and structuring text regarding their readability.