Dr. Ralf Och

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Publications
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Journal Articles
- Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Och, Ralf (2020): Re-conceptualising the relationship between de-familialisation and familialisation and the implications for gender equality – the case of long-term care policies for older people. In: Ageing and Society 40(4,), pp. 869-895, DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X18001435
- Frericks, Patricia, Och, Ralf, Höppner, Julia (2020): The Family in Minimum Income Benefits in Europe: An Institutional Analysis. Social Politics, DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxz003.
- Frericks, Patricia, Julia Höppner und Ralf Och (2019): Individualisierung der Sozialbürgerschaft? Entwicklungen und Widersprüche in Europa, Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Berliner Journal für Soziologie 28(3-4), DOI: 10.1007/s11609-019-00385-3.
- Frericks, Patricia; Höppner, Julia; Och, Ralf (2018): The Difficulty of Measuring Institutions: A Methodological Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Institutions, in Social Indicators Research 127 (3), S. 847-865, DOI 10.1007/s11205-017-1638-9.
- Jensen, Per H.; Møberg, Rasmus Juul; Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2017): Explaining differences in women’s working time in European cities, In: European Societies 19 (2), S. 138–156, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2016.1268700.
- Frericks, Patricia; Höppner, Julia; Och, Ralf (2016): Institutional Individualisation? The Family in European Social Security Institutions. In: Journal of Social Policy, 45(4), S. 747-764, DOI:10.107/S0047279416000404.
- Och, Ralf (2012): Mitgestaltung in der kommunalen Sozialpolitik – vier Beispiele aus der Seniorenpolitik, WSI-Mitteilungen 3/2012, S. 226-234.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Jensen, Per H., Och, Ralf (2011): Tensions between ‘consumerism’ in elder care and the social rights of family carers: a German-Danish comparison, Nordic Journal for Social Research, S. 1-16.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Frericks, Patricia; Höppner, Julia; Och, Ralf (2017): Wie misst man wohlfahrtsstaatliche Institutionen? Ein innovativer Ansatz zur Quantifizierung qualitativer Daten. In: Stephan Lessenich (Hg.): Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2016. Online verfügbar unter http://www.publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2016/article/view/374.
- Och, Ralf (2015): Centralization and decentralization of eldercare policies in Europe. In: Kutsar, Dagmar and Kuronen, Marjo: ‘LOCAL WELFARE POLICY MAKING IN EUROPEAN CITIES’. Springer: Heidelberg, New York, ISBN: 9783319161624.
- Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Frericks, Patricia (2014): Pflegepolitiken im europäischen Vergleich. In: Martina Löw (Ed.): Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012, Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Och, Ralf; Eichler, Melanie (2008): Ökonomisierung, Pflegepolitik und Strukturen der Pflege älterer Menschen. In: Evers, Adalbert; Heinze, Rolf, G.: Sozialpolitik: Ökonomisierung und Entgrenzung. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden; S. 83-98 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-531-90929-5_5.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Och, Ralf; Eichler, Melanie (2013): Erklärung der Differenzen in der lokalen Sozialpolitik zur Pflege älterer Menschen in West- und Ostdeutschland. In: Soeffner, Georg; Kursawe, Kathy (Hg): Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
- Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Eichler, Melanie, Och, Ralf (2008): Ökonomisierung und die widersprüchlichen Dynamiken im gesellschaftlichen Arrangement der Altenpflege. Der Beitrag des Pflegeversicherungsgesetzes zur Realisierung des neuen Leitbildes des „aktiven Sozialbürgers“. In: Rehberg, Karl-Siegert (Ed.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006. Frankfurt/M., New York: Campus Verlag.
- Eichler, Melanie, Dallinger, Ursula, Och, Ralf, Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2007): Governance und Wohlfahrtskultur - Überlegungen zu einem Vergleich lokaler Governance-Strukturen am Beispiel der Altenpflege. In: Deutsches Jugend Institut Projektgruppen E&C und LOS (Ed.): Governancestrategien und lokale Sozialpolitik: Deutsches Jugendinstitut, 94–108.
Working Papers
- Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och, Nicola Schwindt (2015): Forschungsstand zu den institutionalisierten Sicherungsniveaus sozialer Sicherungssysteme. CGG Working Paper No. 1. Hamburg.
- Marjo Kuronen, Teppo Kröger , Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och and Nicola Schwindt (2014): Local welfare systems supporting female employment in 11 European countries. FLOWS working paper No. 25.
- Patrizia Aurich, Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och and Birgit Pfau-Effinger (2014): Local welfare systems supporting female employment in Hamburg. FLOWS working paper No. 31.
- Patrizia Aurich, Ralf Och and Birgit Pfau-Effinger (2014): The policy framework in Hamburg. FLOWS working paper No. 47.
Patrizia Aurich and Ralf Och (2014): Policy formation and policy actors in Hamburg. FLOWS working paper No. 48. - Och, Ralf (2013): Participation of service providers in local policy processes. Experiences from municipal care policies in Germany. Fondazione Volontariato e Participazione: Working paper series FVeP 17.
- Och, Ralf (2013): How can civil society representatives influence local social policy? Political participation of senior representatives in municipal elderly care in East and West Germany. Fondazione Volontariato e Participazione: Working paper series FVeP 11.
Education
2017 Erlangung des Doktorgrads in Soziologie an der Universität Hamburg
2003 Diplom-Soziologe (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Research Focus
- Comparative Welfare State Research
- Local Welfare Systems
- Institutional Change
- Social Security
- Social Care
- Sociology of the Family and Care Work
- Civil Society
- Comparative Methods
Research
- 01/2014-12/2016 : Research Project 'Individualization of the social citizen in the welfare state: development and contradictions in Europe' (INDIV, Funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, head PD Dr. Patricia Frericks (PhD))
- 10/2011-12/2013: Research Project 'Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion' (FLOWS), comparison of 11 cities in 11 European countries. (funded be the EU in the 7th. framework programme (duration 2011-14), head Prof. Per H. Jensen, University of Aalborg, member of team Hamburg, head Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger)
- 2008-2009: research in the European excelence network 'Reconciling Work and Welfare' (RECWOWE) (funded be the EU in the 6th. framework programme, Team Hamburg head Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger)
- 02/2006-05/2009 Research Project 'Die lokale Restrukturierung der Altenpflege – kulturelle Grundlagen, Akteure und Handlungsbedingungen' (The Local Restructuring of Long-Term Care - Cultural Values, Actors and Conditions of Action) Universität Hamburg (Funded be the DFG, head Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger)
- 02/2004-06/2005 Research Project 'Evaluation des Individuellen Förder- und Integrationsplanes' an der Charité Berlin (head Prof. Dr. Werner Müller-Fahrnow, Prof. Dr. Michael Radoschewski)
Presentations
Presentations
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Och, Ralf, Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Central-local tensions in care policy marketization: The role of welfare culture and governance structures for local differences in care policy implementation in Germany. Transforming Care Conference 2019, Thematic Panel 6: Marketisation of care: Strategic policy approach or unintended corollary? Convenors: Barbara DaRoit and Bernhard Weicht. 24.-26- June 2019, Copenhagen.
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Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Explaining Differences in Local Policies toward the Marketization of Elder Care; 2nd Kyoto University-Universität Hamburg Symposium 2018, October 9-11th, Kyoto University.
- Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner and Ralf Och: Family solidarity in European poverty prevention: What are the patterns of institutional change? Annual ESPAnet Conference, Lisbon, 14–16 September 2017 Stream 2: European family policy in times of societal change and permanent austerity: drivers, patterns and future challenges. Stream convenors: Mikael Nygård (Åbo) and Mia Hakovirta (Turku)
- Patricia Frericks; Julia Höppner; Ralf Och, Nicola Schwindt: Die wohlfahrtsstaatliche Individualisierung der social citizens: Entwicklung und Widersprüche in Europa (INDIV). Seminar ‚Soziale Sicherung im internationalen Vergleich‘ 07-01.2016
- Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner, Ralf Och: Family responsibility and individualisation: Developments of social protection in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Hungary. Paper presented at the BIGSSS International Conference Bremen, 24.-25. September (Session 10: Post-Post Communist Social Stratification and Welfare State Institutions, Chair: Alexi Gugushvili)
- Och, Ralf and Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: ‚How to explain differences in the degree of marketisation in local care policies in Germany‘,International Workshop ‚Changing care policies and care work: international perspectives‘; University of Vechta, 7-8 September, 2015
- Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner, Ralf Och: Family policy and individualization: Contradictory reforms of social protection. ‘The Lost and the New Worlds of Welfare 2015 Annual ESPAnet Conference, Odense, Denmark, 3-5 September, 2015 (Stream 9: Familisation, Defamilisation and Individualisation: Concepts and measurement of family policy and its outcomes, Organizers: Henning Lohmann and Hannah Zagel)
- Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner, Ralf Och, Nicola Schwindt: What about family in European social policies? Measurement and indicators to internationally compare intra-country variation. 2015 Annual ESPAnet Conference, Odense, 3-5 September, 2015 (Stream 3: Methodological challenges for comparative welfare state research, Organizers: Rossella Ciccia and Jana Javornik)
- Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner, Ralf Och: Individualization in Social Security: Change of institutionalized family relations in European social security schemes. Paper presented at ‘Individualisation, Internationalisation and Family Policy. International seminar co-hosted by the School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin and the Research Committee on Family Research (RC06) of the International Sociological Association. Dublin, 20-22 August, 2015.
- Frericks, Patricia, Höppner, Julia, Och, Ralf, 'The changing linkage of family members in welfare institutions', paper presented within the Research Network 'Rethinking the Welfare State' (org. Alex Hicks) at the 27th SASE annual conference 'Inequality in the 21st Century', Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), London, July 2-4, 2015
- Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The contribution of local welfare cultures to the explanation of differences in local social policies. Paper presented at the 11th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2013 ‘Social Policy and Economic Development; Stream 9 “The Local Welfare State”, 5-7 September 2013.
- Och, Ralf: How can civil society representatives influence local social policy? Political participation of senior representatives in municipal elderly care policies in East and West Germany – a voice perspective. Paper presented on the international conference ‚Participatory local welfare, citizenship and third sector organizations. What is at stake?”, Stream 2: Promoting social participation at local level: theoretical and practical issues; Pisa (Italy), 31st January - 1st February 2013.
- Och, Ralf: Provider involvement in Senior Policies in German Municipalities between Competition and Corporatism. Paper presented at the Young researchers´ conference: LOCAL WELFARE SYSTEMS AND FEMALE LABOUR MARKET PARTICIPATION IN EUROPE; Universität Hamburg, September 19-20, 2013
- Och, Ralf: Civil society participation in in local social policies in East and West Germany – the example of senior representatives. Paper for presentation at the PhD Conference ‘Local welfare systems and social cohesion’. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona 10-12.6.2013; Stream 3: Coordinator: Prof. Ron McQuaid
- Och, Ralf, Pfau-Effinger, Birgit, Frericks, Patricia: Internationaler Vergleich und Klassifikation lokaler Wohlfahrtssysteme. Paper presentiert auf dem den Soziologentag 2012, Sektion Sozialpolitik, Forum sozialpolitischer Forschung.
- Och, Ralf: Politische Partizipation kommunaler Seniorenvertreter in Deutschland – Engagement matters. Doktorandentagung „Bürgerbeteiligung am politischen Entscheidungsprozess“ 6.-7.09.2012, Frankfurt/M.
- Och, Ralf: Och, Ralf: A weak civic society? Political participation of senior representatives in elderly care policies in East and West Germany. Paper presented on the XVI Conference of the Nordic Political Science Association. 08.-12.08.2012, Vaasa Finland.
- Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: The contribution of local welfare cultures to the explanation of differences in local social policies. Paper presented at the 11th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2013 ‘Social Policy and Economic Development; Stream 9 “The Local Welfare State”, 5-7 September 2013.
- Frericks, Patricia; Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit: Internationaler Vergleich und Klassifikation lokaler Wohlfahrtssysteme,(International Comparison and Classification of Local Welfare Systems), zum 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (at the3 6. German Congress for Sociology) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum/TU Dortmund „Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt“; October 5, 2012.
Teaching
- Summer Term 2020 Seminar „Generationen im Wohlfahrtsstaat“ [Generations in the Welfare State]
- Summer Term 2020 Seminar „Sozialpolitik in Deutschland - institutioneller Wandel und Outcomes“ [Social Policy in Germany – institutional change and outcomes]
- Summer Term 2019 Seminar "Sozialpolitischer Wandel in Deutschland" [Political Change in Social System of Germany],
- Summer Term 2019 Seminar "Fallvergleiche" [Comparative Case Studies], Qualitative Research Methods
- Summer Term 2019 Course "Statistiksoftware" [STATA I - Analytical Research Methods]
- Summer Term 2019 Course "Statistiksoftware" [STATA I - Analytical Research Methods]
- Summer Term 2019 Seminar "Sozialpolitischer Wandel in Deutschland" [Political Change in Social System of Germany]
- Summer Term 2019 Seminar "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Konzepte, Diskurse und Implementationen" [Basic Income: Concepts, Discourses, and Implementation]
- Winter Term 2018/19 Research Seminar "Fallvergleiche" [Comparative Case Studies]
- Winter Term 2018/19 Seminar "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Konzepte, Diskurse und Implementationen" [Basic Income: Concepts, Discourses and Implementations]
- Winter Term 2018/19 Seminar "Sozialpolitischer Wandel in Deutschland" [Changes in German Social Policies]
- Summer Term 2018 Course "Statistiksoftware” [STATA I-Analytical Research Methods]
- Summer Term 2018 Seminar "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Konzepte, Diskurse und Implementationen" [Basic Income: Concepts, Discourses, and Implementations]
- Summer Term 2018 Seminar “Sozialpolitische Reformen in Deutschland” [Reforms in German Social Policy – Continuities and Changes]
- Summer Term 2016 Seminar "Wie konservativ ist Deutschland? Reformen in der Sozialpolitik" [How Conservative is Germany? Reforms in Social Policy]
- Summer Term 2015 Seminar "Wie konservativ ist Deutschland?" [How Conservative is Germany]
- Summer Term 2013 Seminar "Pflege (Care) und Erwerbstätigkeit in Europa" [Care and Employment in Europe]
- Summer Term 2011 Seminar "Analyse lokaler Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung von Frauen im internationalen Vergleich - Messkonzepte und Erklärungsfaktoren" [Local Female Labour Market Participation in International Comparison - Measurement and Explanatory Factors]
- Summer Term 2010 Seminar "Methodik des internationalen Fallvergleiches: Probleme, Konzepte und Anwendungsfelder" [Methodology of Comparable Case Research: Problems, Concepts and Fields of Application]
- Winter Term 2008/09 Seminar "Vergleichen in der Soziologie: Konzepte und Anwendungsfelder" [Comparing in Sociology: Concepts and Fields of Application]