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18FEB 2025
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Registration for all courses of the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology in summer semester 2025 possible on StudOn as of 15.03.
On 15.03.2025 the registration period for the courses of the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology in the summer semester 2025 will start. You will soon find all courses on StudOn here.
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08JAN 2025
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Information session on the Bachelor’s Thesis on January 20, 2025
The sociology chairs, along with the Chair of Social Policy, are offering a virtual information session at the end of the semester for all students interested in writing a Bachelor’s thesis in Sociology or Social Policy in the upcoming summer semester. The session will cover the formal process, timeline, and potential topics for BA theses. […]
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16DEC 2024
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Book Publication: Experimental Sociology
Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through experimental designs has ignited a debate about which experimental designs can facilitate scientific progress in sociology. This book discusses the implications of research interests for the design of experiments, identifies points of commonality and disagreement among the different perspectives […]Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through experimental designs has ignited a debate about which experimental designs can facilitate scientific progress in sociology. This book discusses the implications of research interests for the design of experiments, identifies points of commonality and disagreement among the different perspectives […]
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12NOV 2024
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Appointment as Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong
Tobias Wolbring has been appointed as Honorary Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) for the period November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026 (https://sociology.hku.hk/people).
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12NOV 2024
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New publication in Advances in Life Course Research
In a new paper, Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring how children moving out from the parental home affects parents’ subjective well-being. They find that not the empty nest move – i.e., the last child moving out — is most important but the first move of a child moving home. For more details, please […]
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12NOV 2024
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New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Using cutting edge AI techniques to create deepfaked videos, Juliane Kühn and Tobias Wolbring explore how physical attractiveness affects labor market success. They find that beauty pays but not under all circumstances. Only men consistently profit from their looks, while women benefit from a beauty premium in female-typed, but not in male-typed jobs. For more […]
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