The three units of the Department of Social Sciences
The teaching and research units in detail
Sociology
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Angelika Poferl](/storages/sowi/_processed_/5/4/csm_Prof_Dr_Angelika_Poferl_f2755f1aff.jpg)
General Sociology / Prof. Angelika Poferl
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Maximiliane Wilkesmann](/storages/sowi/_processed_/2/5/csm_Prof_Dr_Maximiliane_Wilkesmann_63eb16ce54.jpg)
Heisenberg-Professorship: Sociology of Work and Organization / Prof. Maximiliane Wilkesmann
![Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Naegele Portrait photo of Assistant Professor Laura Naegele](/storages/sowi/_processed_/8/9/csm_LauraNaegele_Personalfoto_Credit_FriedrichSchmidt_quer_ced2bbb36f.jpg)
Employment and education in old age / Ass. Prof. Laura Naegele (BIBB)
![In the photo, Prof. Aladin El-Mafaalani stands at a lectern.](/storages/sowi/_processed_/4/e/csm_El-Mafaalani_by_Baege_222394_82a648a869.jpg)
Sociology of Migration and Education / Prof. Aladin El-Mafaalani (Webseite folgt)
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Monika Reichert](/storages/sowi/_processed_/f/8/csm_Prof_Dr_Monika_Reichert_e2c7279fb2.jpg)
Social Gerontology and Life Course Research / Prof. Monika Reichert
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt Portrait Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt](/storages/sowi/_processed_/c/b/csm_Prof_Dr_Martina_Brandt_00bdb06b5a.jpg)
Social Structure and Sociology of Ageing Societies / Prof. Martina Brandt
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Nicole Burzan](/storages/sowi/_processed_/8/8/csm_Prof_Dr_Nicole_Burzan_62a2666e45.jpg)
Sociology with the focus on Social Inequality / Prof. Nicole Burzan
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef](/storages/sowi/_processed_/d/b/csm_Prof_Dr_Mona_Motakef_e8801c6897.jpg)
Sociology of Gender Relations / Prof. Mona Motakef
![Portrait Prof. Bernd Sommer Portrait Prof. Bernd Sommer](/storages/sowi/_processed_/3/8/csm_05_1201_Prof_BerndSommer_2022_web_82d71b9ec2.jpg)
Environmental Sociology with a Focus on Transformation Research / Prof. Bernd Sommer
![Prof. Dr. Cornelius Schubert The photo shows the portrait of Prof. Cornelius Schubert. Behind him is a rollup on which the logos of the TU Dortmund University and the Department of Social Sciences can be read.](/storages/sowi/_processed_/e/d/csm_Prof._Dr._Cornelius_Schubert_DSC3671_fc76dacbc2.jpg)
Sociology of Science and Technology / Prof. Cornelius Schubert
Further Research Areas
Subcultures of Contemporary Societies / AOR Dr. Arne Niederbacher
Family, Health, Life Course / Dr. Christian Deindl
Coopted Professors
Senior Professorship
Social Research Center (SFS)
Other research areas of the Social Research Center
Sociodigital transformation of work and organisation / Dr. Ralf Kopp
Work, Organisation, Gender / Dr. Lisa-Marian Schmidt
Innovation and education in the digital society / Dr. Jennifer Eckhardt
Labour Policy and Health / Kerstin Guhlemann
Transformative Governance in Cities and Regions / Jürgen Schultze
Institute for Interdisciplinary Didactics (IDIF)
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Dorothee Gronostay](/storages/sowi/_processed_/3/6/csm_Prof_Dr_Dorothee_Gronostay_0617e41560.jpg)
Didactics of Social Sciences with an Emphasis on Empirical Research in Political Education / Prof. Dorothee Gronostay
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Thomas Goll](/storages/sowi/_processed_/1/6/csm_Prof_Dr_Thomas_Goll_95088d2abe.jpg)
Didactics of Integrative Subjects »General Studies« and »Social Sciences« / Prof. Thomas Goll
![Portrait Prof. Dr. Ludger Basten](/storages/sowi/_processed_/c/8/csm_Prof._Dr._Ludger_Basten_201d230430.jpg)
Economic and Social Geography / Prof. Ludger Basten
Interdepartmental Cooperations | |
Statististical Methods in Social Sciences | Department of Statistics Prof. Dr. Philipp Doebler | website |
Former Professors | |
General Sociology Prof. Dr. Ronald Hitzler | website |
Migration Sociology Jun-Prof. Dr. Karolina Barglowski | website |
Sociology of Work Prof. Dr. Hartmut Neuendorff | Wikipedia |
Social Gerontology Prof. Dr. Gerhard Naegele | website |
Sociology of Gender Relations Prof. Dr. Michael Meuser | website |
Sociological Gerontology und Geragogy Prof. Dr. Ludger Veelken (1938-2022) | video |
Economic ans Industrial Sociology Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen | website |