Dipl.-Soz. Markus Zielonka

Markus Zielonka , born in Freiberg, Germany (1976), studied sociology, psychology and geography at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, political sociology at the University of Dalarna (Sweden) and sociology at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg where he took his diploma degree in March 2007. From September 2005 to March 2007 he was working as a student research assistant in the DFG project 'Flexibility Forms at Labor Market Entry and in the Early Career' (flexCAREER) at the University of Bamberg . In this context he conducted a country study on the United States of America together with Ilona Relikowski . From April 2007 to Frebruary 2008 he was working as a research scientist at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg in a project on educational decisions (BiKS). Since March 2008 he is working at the Department of Sociology I, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg in the same project. He is interested in education, life courses and labor markets as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Contact

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Lehrstuhl für Soziologie I
Postfach 1549
D – 96047 Bamberg
Germany

Dipl.-Soz. Markus Zielonka
Phone: (+49)-(0)951-863-2593
Fax: (+49)-(0)951-863-2597
Mail: markus.zielonka@uni-bamberg.de

Room: 226 WiPo

Publications

  • Kleine, L., Birnbaum, N., Zielonka, M., Doll, J. & Blossfeld, H.-P. (2010). Auswirkungen institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen auf das Bildungsstreben der Eltern und die Bedeutung der Lehrerempfehlung. Journal for Educational Research Online, 1, 72-93.
  • Relikowski, I., M. Zielonka, and H. Hofmeister (2008): Labor market entries and early careers in the United States of America, 1984–2002 - Increasing employment instability among young people? in: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Erzsébet Bukodi and Karin Kurz (eds.): Young Workers, Globalization and the Labor Market Comparing Early Working Life in Eleven Countries. Cheltenham , UK / Northampton , MA : Edward Elgar.
  • Relikowski, I., M. Zielonka, and H. Hofmeister (2007): Labor market entries and early careers in the United States of America, 1984–2002 - Increasing employment instability among young people?, flexCAREER working paper series (10). Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Presentations

  • "Educational Decisions as a Rational Calculus? Testing Models of Educational Decision Making with a Mixed Methods Approach." (together with Erbil Yilmaz) . Presentation at the 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenborg, July 11-17, 2010.
  • "Educational decisions as a rational calculus? Methodological aspects of qualitative assessment of Rational Choice Theories." Poster for the 2nd International BiKS Summer School in Empirical Education Research, Bamberg, September 28-October 01, 2009.
  • "Bildungsentscheidungen als rationales Kalkül? Methodische Aspekte der qualitativen Überprüfung von Rational-Choice-Modellen." (together with Nicole Birnbaum and Erbil Yilmaz) Presentation at the Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion "Bildung und Erziehung", Wittenberg, June 04-05, 2009.
  • "Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen auf elterliche Bildungsentscheidungen: Eine Anwendung des Breen-Goldthorpe-Modells." (together with Nicole Birnbaum and H. P. Blossfeld) Presentation at the 71. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Kiel, August 25-27, 2008.
  • "Die Formation elterlicher Bildungsentscheidungen beim Übergang von der Grundschule in die Sekundarstufe I als Prozess - Ergebnisse des BiKS-Längsschnitts." (together with Lydia Kleine, Wiebke Paulus and H.P. Blossfeld) Presentation ath the 21. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Dresden, March 16-19, 2008.
  • "Determinanten und Stabilität idealistischer und realistischer Bildungsaspiration vor dem Übergang in die Sekundarstufe." Presentation at the 70th Meeting of the Arbeitsgruppen Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Lüneburg, Germany, September 10-12, 2007.
  • "Labor market entries and early careers in the United States of America, 1984–2002 - Increasing employment instability among young people?" (together with Ilona Relikowski). Presentation at the European Consortium for Social Research (ECSR) and European Science Foundation (ESF) TransEurope Research Network Conference („Globalization, Social Inequality and the Life Course“), Groningen, the Netherlands, September 1-2, 2007.
  • "Educational Processes, Competence Development, and Selection Decisions in Primary School Age: How are decisions made and how can we measure it?" (together with Wiebke Paulus) Presentation at the ECSR workshop, Brno, March 20-23, 2007.
  • "Labor Market Entry and Early Careers in the USA. First Results from the PSID" (together with Ilona Relikowski). Presentation at the 2nd international workshop of the flexCAREER project, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany, October 20-21, 2006.
  • "Labor Market Entry and Early Careers in the USA" (together with Ilona Relikowski). Presentation at the 1st international workshop of the flexCAREER project, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany, March 17-18, 2006.