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.

Field trip with the bachelor's seminar “Migration and the Climate Crisis as Challenges for Social Policy” to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in June 2026.

Game-based teaching strategies

The conference “Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis”(886.7 KB) was organised by the SFA Chair team at the University of Bamberg in March 2025.

The Sociology - Family and Work Colloquium took place on July 22nd, 2025.

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.