Research Focus Areas

This page provides an overview of the institute's main focus areas. In order to learn more about the research activities of our other SUZ-members, please go to the staff pages.

Specific Focus Areas
Overall Focus Areas

Specific Focus Areas

Chairs

Marlis Buchmann: Life course, social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, occupation and labour markets, social and cultural change
Eldad Davidov: Methods and empirical social research, international comparisons, structural equation models, panel data, attitudes and values, decision theories
Hans Geser: Political sociology, sociology of communities and political parties, organizational and occupational sociology, new communication technologies
Kurt Imhof: Sociology of public sphere, social movements, sociology of minorities, social change, social theory
Jörg Rössel: Sociological theory, empirical cultural sociology, social stratification, political sociology, comparative historical sociology
Marc Szydlik: Social stratification, life course, labour market, generations, empirical research

Lecturers

Beat Fux: Family sociology, demography, welfare und family policy
François Höpflinger: Ageing and family, sociodemography
Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz: Sociological theory and its history

Overall Focus Areas

Labour / Occupation

Marlis Buchmann, Hans Geser, Marc Szydlik

Empirical Methods

Eldad Davidov, Jörg Rössel, Marc Szydlik

Historical Sociology

Marlis Buchmann, Kurt Imhof, Jörg Rössel

Information and Communication Technology

Hans Geser, Kurt Imhof

Conflicts

Marlis Buchmann, Eldad Davidov, Kurt Imhof, Jörg Rössel, Marc Szydlik

Life Course

Marlis Buchmann, Marc Szydlik

Organization

Hans Geser, Kurt Imhof

Political Parties, Unions, Democracy and Political Communication

Hans Geser, Kurt Imhof, Jörg Rössel

Religion and Culture

Eldad Davidov, Hans Geser, Kurt Imhof, Jörg Rössel

Social Stratification, Social Change