Professorship

The Chair of Sociology, with its focus on economic and organizational sociology, is particularly concerned with the comparative analysis of institutions at the societal and organisational level in its teaching and research. Topics include the different forms of capitalism, economic guiding principles and phenomena of socio-economic transformation. The professorship is committed to constructive methodological pluralism, whereby various qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social research are selected according to their suitability for the respective research topic.