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.
Karin Flaake studied sociology and psychoanalytic social psychology in Frankfurt / Main, then from 1972 to 1975 was a research associate at the sociological seminar of the University of Göttingen,[1] working on a research project on political learning processes in general education schools.
From 1991 to 1994 she was a professor at the Psychological Institute of Freie Universität Berlin,[3] 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.