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