Teaching

BA and MA theses

Currently, I am looking for students who would like to write their theses in the following topics:
- Intersectional Poverty Research
- Poverty in Kassel (in cooperation with city politics and administration)
- International comparative poverty research

Courses

 

Completed courses

BA-Module 1, What is Sociology?

  • Lecture series "The Sociological Gaze
  • Propaedeutic course "Introduction to scientific work

BA-Module 2, Sociological Theory

  • Seminar "Sociological Theory: Reciprocity and Solidarity".

BA-Module 5 Structure, Interaction and Social Structure: Seminars

  • Social Mobility
  • Child poverty and educational opportunities
  • Causes and consequences of family poverty
  • Work, unemployment and social integration
  • Families in the process of social transformation
  • Raising children alone
  • Social inequality: theory and empiricism
  • Social classes and milieus
  • Meritocracy: On the social legitimation of social inequality

BA Module 6, Empirical Practicum:

  • Bought Time. Domestic Outsourcing from the Perspective of the Sociology of Inequality
  • Dynamics of Family Poverty
  • My Your Ours. The Power of Money in Families
  • What is part of the student standard of living - and who can afford it?
  • Early family formation

BA Module 7a, Sociological Practice:

  • Seminar "Sociology in Practice. Follow-up to the internship"

BA-Module 8 Advanced Study, Social Practices and Collective Processes: Seminars

  • Who is in the poverty trap? Self-assertion between welfare state and labor market
  • Inclusion through work, exclusion through unemployment?
  • Changes in employment histories
  • Dynamics of poverty
  • My Your Ours. The power of money in couple relationships
  • No time. Torn between work and family
  • Status and shame
  • News from family research
  • Experiencing time
  • Class, gender migration. Intersectional inequality research

Bachelor final module:

  • BA Colloquium
  • Supervision and peer review of bachelor theses

MA-Module 1, Social Inequality and Social Inequality: Seminars

  • Uptown Girls and Backstreet Guys. Spatial Segregation of Families in German Cities
  • Long live inequality. Current analyses of the meritocratic promise

MA-Module 3, Advanced Methodology and Statistics: Seminars

  • Interweaving biographical and life course research.
  • Time analyses. Events and trajectories
  • Sequential Pattern Analyses

Master's degree module

  • MA Colloquium
  • Supervision and review of master theses

Additive key competences

  • Introduction to Stata