Guest professorships, fellowships and honors

2015
Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse

1995/96
DAAD-Visiting Chair of German and European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

1995
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

1992
Visiting Scholar, Dept, of Sociology and Life Course Centre, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

1992
Noted Scholar, Dept. of Social and Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1988/89
Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar, NL

1982/83
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

1971
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus, USA