Karin Flaake
Karin Flaake (born 1944 in Schwerin, in Mecklenburg, Germany) is a German sociologist and professor (retired) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Her publications on the adolescence of young women and men (some written jointly with Vera King) 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 (FAPP). 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. Karin Flaake