Christine Weinbach

Christine Weinbach serves as a private lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the University of Potsdam, specializing in sociological analyses of gender, difference, and functional differentiation within modern societies.

Her academic credentials include a doctorate from Bielefeld University (2001) introducing gender categories into Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, followed by habilitation at the University of Potsdam (2013) examining ascriptive categories in political systems. Current research investigates the social organization of difference through case studies of gender mainstreaming and employability concepts in German job centers.

Her work centers on Gender Sociology and Sociology of Difference, utilizing Systems Theory frameworks to analyze Political Sociology dynamics within Public Institutions. Recent projects explore how ascriptive person categories erode through concepts like employability, revealing structural transformations in bureaucratic settings.

She completed the research project "Hollowing-out ascriptive person categories: the concept of 'employability'" as a key investigation into institutional manifestations of social difference.