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The core research areas of the Institute of Sociology are international comparisons, especially of European societies as well as the analysis of transnationalization and Europeanization processes.
Four Seven different research groups exist groups exist within the Institute:
- Macrosociology (Céline Teney)
- Methods of Empirical Social Research (Dieter Ohr)
- Methods of Empirical Social Research (Bruno Castanho Silva)
- Sociology of Emotions (Christian von Scheve)
- Political Sociology (Swen Hutter)
- Sociology with focus on Gender Studies (Kathrin Zippel)
- Empirical Social Structure and Survey-Methodology (Stefan Liebig)
- Jürgen Gerhards holds
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- a Senior Professorship at the
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- Institute.
Besides the four research groups within the Institute of Sociology, there are also sociological units within other Institutes of the FU with whom the Institute of Sociology maintains a close cooperation. These include:
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Members of the Institute, moreover, are involved are involved in the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS), the "Centre for Civil Society Research", the DFG (“German Research Foundation”) Research Group "European Socialization Processes", the Special Research Field (SFB) "Affective Societies - Dynamics of Living Together in Moving Worlds" , the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).
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