Professors and research teams

Associate Professor for life course, generations, age

Research interests: Intergenerational relationships, ageing and inequality, ageing society, well-being/health, family sociology, causal inference

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Associate Professor for sociology of social change

Research interests: Socio-ecological transformation (just transition/ sustainability and social justice), feminist political economy, financialization and society, public services of general interest, structural change of the welfare state, care work and social reproduction, work and emotions, participatory research methods

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Professor for political sociology

Research interests: Political Sociology, sociology of emotions, public policy, feminist sociology, women´s health and sociology of the body, interpretative social research

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Associate Professor for visual sociology

Research interests: Visual Sociology, Sociology of Film/Media, Gender Studies, Organizational/Group Dynamics

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Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences for the summer semester 2025

Research interests: Sociology of gender, sociological social psychology, social inequality, sociology of immigration, medical sociology

Professor for urban sociology

Research interests: International urban sociology, comparative social policy

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Tenure Track Professorship for qualitative social research

Research interests: Qualitative methods (especially interpretative and reconstructive methods), sociology of knowledge, sociology of identity and ethnicity, sociology of migration, sociological theory

Associate Professor for inclusion and exclusion

Research interests: Culture, social inequality, migration and social participation, interpretative social research

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Professor for culture and knowledge

Research interests: Sociology of knowledge, social constructivism, mediatization, social robotics, vaccination scepticism

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Associate Professor for sociology

Research interests: Interpretative social research, migration, mobility, discrimination, transnational social spaces

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Professor for social structure research and quantitative methods

Research interests: Social structue and social inequality, education and social mobility, work/ employment, sociology of the family, age and aging of society, well-being/ health, biography, quantitatives methods

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Professor for sociology of the family

Research interests: Family, childhood and youth sociology, transitions in the biography, divorce/ separation, social media in childhood, youth and family, sociological analysis of family and child law, qualitative social research

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