Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow

Position: Principal Investigator

Projects:  Entire RISS research group

RISS Project No.1: CoRE– Conceptualizing Reconfiguration for Empirical Research

RISS Project No.2: Internalized Gender and Parenting Norms: Assessing Reconfigurations between Gender, Socio- Economic Status and Immigrant Background

Role: Daniela Grunow coordinates the research group and data joint collection and develops, together with other RISS PIs, the joint conceptual framework. She designs theory-driven research strategies and operationalizations to assess multidimensional change in the social structure and writes research papers based on the RISS theoretical framework and empirical findings.

About: Daniela Grunow is Professor of Sociology with a focus on "Quantitative Analyses of Social Change" at the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University and spokesperson for the RISS research group. She specializes in the analysis of social change with a focus on gender, norms, ideologies, and work. Her research and teaching focus on the interactions of labor market, domestic work and gender relations in different welfare states as well as on aspects of social integration and cohesion.






Selected Publications

Steffen Eger, Dan Liu & Daniela Grunow (2022): Measuring Social Solidarity during Crisis: The Role of Design Choices. In: Journal of Social Computing, ISSN 2688-5255 03/06 pp139−157 Volume 3, Number 2, June 2022 DOI: 10.23919/ JSC.2022.0003. Online Version


Grunow, Daniela & Lietzmann, Torsten (2021): Women's employment transitions: the influence of her, his and joint gender ideologies. In: Demographic Research. 45(3), 55-86. Online Version

Grunow, Daniela & Evertsson, Marie (2019): New Parents in Europe: Work-Care Practices,Gender Norms and Family Policies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Grunow, Daniela (2019):Comparative analyses of housework and its relation to paid work: Institutional contexts and individual agency.In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Vol 71, Supplement 1, 247-284. doi:10.1007/s11577-019-00601-1. Online Version 

Grunow, Daniela, Begall, Katia & Buchler, Sandra (2018): Gender Ideologies in Europe: A Multidimensional Framework. In: Journal of Marriage and Family. 80(1), 42-60. Open Access. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12453. Online Version