Research Focuses

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Aretz

• Social Theory
• Comparative Macrosociology
• Social Change in the Context of Europeanization
• Globalization of Living Conditions

Prof. Dr. Uwe Blien

• Regional Labor Markets
• Relationship between Labor Markets and Firms
• Cycles of Booms and Crisis
• Impacts of Structural Changes on Labor Markets
• Institutional Analysis

Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz

• International Comparison of Welfare Regimes, Labor Markets, and Education Systems
• Life Courses
• Social Inequality
• Labor Markets, Education, and Family
• Youth, Young Adults and Entry into the Labor Market
• Retirement and Employment of Older People
• Longitudinal Research Methods, esp. Event Analysis

Prof. Dr. Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler

• Sociology of Health
• Family Demography
• Social Demography
• Causal Analysis
• Sociology of Population

Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel

• International Comparative Social Research
• Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Modern Causal Analysis
• Life Course Studies (Transition into Adulthood)
• Atypical Employment and Unemployment
• Social Stratification/ Inequality

Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert

• Empirical Research on Education and Labor Markets
• Transition from Education to Employment
• Gender Inequalities in Education and Labor Markets
• Collection and Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Prof. Dr. Bernadette Kneidinger

• Sociology of the Internet
• Sociology of Media and Communication
• Sociology of Technology
• Online Research Methods

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen

• Migration and Integration
• Sociology of Education
• Social Inequalities and Analysis of Social Structures

Prof. Dr. Ilona Relikowski

• Quantitative Research in Education
• Educational Inequalities in Life Courses
• Effects of Social and Ethnic Origins
• Gender Disparities

Prof. Dr. Elmar Rieger

• 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

• Sociology of Education
• Social Inequalities and Social Mobility
• Analysis of Social Structures
• Sociological Labor Market Research

Prof. Dr. Olaf Struck

• Labor Market, Economy and Firm (i.a. in international comparison)
• Welfare State Research, Analysis of Social Structures and Social Policy (i.a. in international comparison)
• Empirical Research on Justice
• Employment Systems, Human Resources and Organizational Development
• Education and Vocational Training, Life Course, and Generational Research (i.a. in international comparison)
• Statistics and Quantitative Methods of Social Research
• Sociological Theory

Prof. Dr. Mark Trappmann

• Measurement Error
• Nonresponse Error
• Interaction of Measurement Error and Nonresponse Error
• Coverage Error
• Dynamics of Basic Income Support
• Impact of Social Networks on Labor Market Outcomes
• Employed Recipients of Basic Income Support