Research Teams
Teams operate under the guidance of professors from the Department and consist of postdocs, predocs, teaching assistants and sometimes administrative staff.
TEAM BRECKNER
- Visual Sociology
- Biographical Research
- Social Media
- Method Development
TEAM DURNOVA
- Political sociology
- Sociology of emotions
- Cultural sociology
- Public Policy
- Women's health and sociology of the body
- Feminist sociology
- Interpretive methods
TEAM FLECKER
- Work organisation and relationships
- Labour market
- Digitalization
- Transnationalism
- Youth
- Right-wing populism and extremism
TEAM KAZEPOV
- International urban sociology: poverty, segregation, governance, local social policy, city regeneration projects, multilevel governance ...
- Comparative social policy: Welfare regimes, social benefits , activations policies, migration, rescaling and regionalising of social policy, citizenship ...
TEAM KOLLAND
- Ageing
- Education
- Life styles
- Sociology of developing countries
TEAM PFADENHAUER
- Sociology of knowledge
- Social constructivism
- Mediatisation
- Social robotics
TEAM SCHEIBELHOFER
- interpretative social research
- migration
- mobility
- transnational social spaces
TEAM STEIBER
- Social stratification and social inequality
- Education and social mobility
- Employment
- Family
- Ageing
- Well-being/health
- Quantitative methods
TEAM ZARTLER
- family
- childhood
- divorce
- qualitative social research