Chair of Sociology, especially Family and Work

Prof. Dr. Katja Möhring as a panelist in the session “Can Welfare States Enhance Societal Resilience during Crises?” at the CES Conference 2026 in Dublin.

Activities: Field trip with students to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in June 2026, and game-based teaching strategies

Welcome!

Our research and teaching activities are in the fields of life course sociology and comparative welfare state research, each with a focus on the topics of family and work.

From an analytical-empirical perspective, we deal with questions concerning the reconciliation of family and work, life course and age(ing), gender inequality in income and wealth, and political attitudes. We usually apply quantitative methods such as sequence analysis, panel or multilevel-regression. In our international research project MIG-AGE, we pursue a mixed methods approach to investigate healthy aging and well-being of older migrants in Europe.