Research Focuses
Prof. Dr. Daniel Drewski
Junior Professorship for Sociology of Europe and Globalization
- Sociology of European integration and globalization
- Migration and boundaries
- Social and symbolic boundaries
- Qualitative methods, discourse analyses
Prof. Dr. Matthias Dütsch
Professorship of Sociology, especially Labor Research
- Sociology of work and occupation
- Minimum and low wage research
- Work and Health
- Employment histories and occupational mobility empirical research on justice
Prof. Dr. Henriette Engelhardt-W?lfler
Professorship of Demography
- Sociology of Health
- Family Demography
- Social Demography
- Causal analysis
- Sociology of Population
Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel
Chair of Sociology, especially Methods of Empirical Social Research
- International comparative social research
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Methods of modern causal analysis
- Life course research (transition to adulthood)
- Unemployment and non-standard employment
- Social stratification / inequality
Prof. Dr. Rasmus Hoffmann
Chair of Sociology, with special emphasis on Social Inequalities
- Social and health inequality
- Dimensions of social inequality
- Modeling of life course processes
- Sociology of Health
Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert
Professorship of Sociology with Focus on Longitudinal Educational Research
- Empirical research on education and the labor market
- Transitions between school and working life
- Gender inequalities in education and the labor market
- Collection and analysis of longitudinal data
Prof. Dr. Yuliya Kosyakova
Chair for Migration Research
- (Circular) Migration and Integration
- Labor market integration and social participation
- Social stratification/inequality
- Gender inequalities and intersectionality
- Collection and analysis of longitudinal data
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen
Chair of Sociology, area Social Stratification
- Migration and Integration
- Educational sociology
- Social inequality / social stratification
Prof. Dr. Isabel Kusche
Professorship of Sociology with Focus on Digital Media
- Sociology of digital media
- Political sociology
- Sociological theory
Prof. Dr. Katja M?hring
Chair of Sociology, esp. family and work
- Sociology of the life course, esp. work and family
- Age and retirement
- Gender inequality and attitudes
- Comparative welfare state research
- Multilevel and panel analyses
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Peetz
Department of Sociology, especially Sociological Theory
- Sociological Theory
- Comparative Macrosociology
- Social Theory
- Sociology of european and global processes
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Religion
Prof. Dr. Marvin Reuter
Junior professorship for sociology, esp. work and health
- Precarious employment and health in Europe
- Physical and psychosocial workloads
- Presenteeism (working despite illness)
- Social inequality and health
Prof. Dr. Elmar Rieger
Professorship of Sociology, especially Research on Europe and Globalization
- Sociology of transnational processes
- Sociology of international structures
- Historical-comparative welfare state research
- Sociology of international law
- Sociology of international relations
- Sociological Theory
Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler
Professorship of Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course
- Sociology of Education
- Social inequality and social mobility
- Social structure analysis
- Sociological labor market research
Prof. Dr. Olaf Struck
Professorship of Labour Studies
- Labour market, economy and company (international comparative)
- Welfare state research, social structure analysis and social policy (international comparative)
- Empirical justice research
- Operational employment systems, personnel and organizational development
- Education and training, life course and generation research (international comparative)
- Statistics and qualitative methods of social research
- Sociological theory
Prof. Dr. Mark Trappmann
Chair of Sociology, especially Survey Methodology
- Examination of measurement error
- Examination of nonresponse error
- Interaction of measurement error and nonresponse error
- Examination of coverage error
- Dynamics of basic income support
- Importance of social networks in the labor market
- Situation of employed basic income support recipients