The institutes of the Department of Social Sciences
Overview of institutes and persons
Institute for Interdisciplinary Didactics (idif)
Didactics of social sciences with a focus on empirical political didactics / Prof. Dr. Dorothee Gronostay
Integrative subject didactics for general studies and social sciences / Prof. Dr. Thomas Goll
Economic & Social Geography / Prof. Dr. Ludger Basten
Institute of Sociology (ISO)
General Sociology / Prof. Dr. Angelika Poferl
Heisenberg Professorship: Sociology of Work and Organization / Prof. Dr. Maximiliane Wilkesmann
Employment and education in old age / Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Naegele (BIBB)
Family & Health / apl. Prof. Dr. Christian Deindl
Life course sociology / Prof. Dr. Hannah Zagel
Sociology of Migration and Education / Prof. Dr. Aladin El-Mafaalani
Organizational Research and Continuing Education Management / Prof. Dr. Uwe Wilkesmann (zhb) (co-opted)
Social Structure and Sociology of Ageing Societies / Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt
Sociology of Gender Relations / Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef
Sociology with a focus on social inequalities / Prof. Dr. Nicole Burzan
Environmental sociology with a focus on transformation research / Prof. Dr. Bernd Sommer
Sociology of Science and Technology / Prof. Dr. Cornelius Schubert
Other research areas of the Institute of Sociology
Subcultures of contemporary society / AOR Dr. Arne Niederbacher
Social Research Center (sfs)
Other research areas of the Social Research Center
Work and organization in socio-digital change / Dr. Michael Kohlgrüber
Work, organization, gender / Dr. Lisa-Marian Schmidt
Innovation and education in the digital society / Dr. Jennifer Eckhardt
Labor policy and health / Kerstin Guhlemann
Transformative governance in cities and regions / Jürgen Schultze
Co-opted professors
Senior professorship
Cross-department cooperation
| Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences | Faculty of Statistics Prof. Dr. Philipp Doebler | to the website |
Former professors
| General Sociology Prof. Dr. Ronald Hitzler | to the website |
| Sociology of Work Prof. Dr. Hartmut Neuendorff | Wikipedia |
| Sociology of Migration Jun-Prof. Dr. Karolina Barglowski | to the website |
| Social Gerontology and Life Course Research Prof. Dr. Monika Reichert | to the website |
| Social Gerontology Prof. Dr. Gerhard Naegele | to the website |
| Sociology of Gender Relations Prof. Dr. Michael Meuser | to the website |
| Sociological Gerontology and Geragogics Prof. Dr. Ludger Veelken (1938-2022) | to the video |
| Economic and Industrial Sociology Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen | to the website |