Institute of Sociology

Completed Research Projects

The following research projects have been carried out at our department in recent years:

Refugee shelters: between modus vivendi and threatened order

Projectteam:

Prof. Boris Nieswand
Dr. Elif Alp-Marent

Funding: Exploration Funds of the University of Tübingen
Duration: 2016-2018 / Summary of the project results

Gender differences in educational behavior and educational success

Joint project:

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hillmert, Meike Han, M.A. (Universität Tübingen, Institut für Soziologie)
Dr. Steffen Kröhnert, Stephan Sievert, M.A. (Berlin-Institut für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung)

Funding: BMBF
Duration: 2012-2015

Historical developments of social reproduction in the Federal Republic of Germany: socialreproduction.de

Project team:       

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hillmert, Dr. Maarten Buis, Bastian Mönkediek, M.A.       

Funding: DFG
Duration: 2008-2012

Provision during old age for people with flexible employment biographies in Germany

Project team:

Dr. Susanne Strauß, Andreas Ebert, M.A. 

Funding: Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg                                                                         

Heterogeneus information environments and individual status transitions

ScienceCampus Tübingen - Cluster 4

Spokesman:         

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hillmert                                                    

Sub-projects at the Department of Sociology:
Sub-project 1

Information and decision behaviour during status transitions

 

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hillmert
Dipl.-Vw. Volker Lang, M.A.

Sub-project 2

Fairness in the course of studies: The impact of distribution evaluations on status transitions

 

Prof. Dr. Martin Groß
Roland Burger, M.A.

A Life Course Perspective on Inequality Trends across Households

Project team:     

Prof. Leen Vandecasteele (P.I.),Frederike Esche, Dipl.Soz. (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)

Funding:

Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, ZUK 63)

Notions of nursing care of Turkish and Turkish migrants of the first generation of guest workers

Project leader:

Dr. phil. Andrea Kronenthaler                                                                                                

Employment organisations and wage inequality: What role do companies play in generating wage inequality in Germany?

Leader:

Prof. Dr. Martin Groß                                                                                                                

Collaborator:

Michael Schweiker, M.A