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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, time...

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 interest...

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).

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 m...

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...

On 15.09.2024 the registration period for the courses of the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology in the winter semester 2024/25 will start. You will soon find all courses on StudOn here.

On 15.09.2023 the registration period for the courses of the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology in the winter semester 2023/24 will start. You will soon find all courses on StudOn here.

As part of the GESIS Summer School, the course "Causal Inference Using Survey Data" will be held by Heinz Leitgöb and Tobias Wolbring from 7 to 11 August 2023 in Cologne. The course introduces concepts and methods of causal research and causal modelling in the social sciences. Participants will l...

The DFG has approved funding for the project "Objective and Subjectively Experienced Financial Inequalities in Income and Wealth and Their Consequences" by Professor Tobias Wolbring and colleagues. The project will investigate whether and how subjective representations of financial inequality are...

We are happy to announce that the project "Individually recommended? - How AI-based Advisory Systems affect Student Diversity - ADVICE" will be funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For further information about the project.