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 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