Page Content
Colloquia & Research
The Institute of Sociology hosts regular colloquia during the semester. Current research projects are presented and invited speakers present thematically interesting and suiting projects and concepts. In addition to the colloquium of the institute you can find links to the different colloquia of the department's chairs below.
At the bottom end of this page, you can have an overview of the research projects that are currently conducted by the chairs.
Colloquium of the Institute of Sociology
- © Hanna Fleischer
The colloquia of the institute's colloquium takes place on Wednesdays between 6 pm and 8 pm in room FH 804, Fraunhoferstr. 33-36, 10587 Berlin. Guests are very welcome to all of the talks!
| 23.10.2019 | IfS-Lecture "The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of the program "One Laptop per Child"" Morgan Ames (Berkeley) |
| 04.12.2019 | "Überlegungen zu einer historischen Soziologie der Säkularität"Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig) |
| 29.01.2020 | "Biographieforschung und Figurationssoziologie" Gabriele Rosenthal (Göttingen) |
| 12.02.2020 | "Planning Building Dwelling: A Sociology of Housing" Martin Fuller (Berlin) |
Colloquia of the Chairs
- Theory of Modern Societies
- Sociology of Technology and Innovation
- Methods of Social Research
- Sociology of Organizations
- Sociology of Architecture
- Urban and Regional Sociology
- Sociology of Politics
Chair Theory of Modern Societies, Prof. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch
Overview over the projects and workshops of the chair
Centers of Coordination: The Polycontexturalization of Power in Control Rooms.
Subproject B02 of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-figuration of Spaces" Technische Universität Berlin
Direction: Prof. Dr. H. Knoblauch.
The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Audiance Emotions in Sports and Religion.
Subproject C02 of the Collaborative Research Center 1171 "Affective Societies" (Freie Universität Berlin).
Direction: Prof. Dr. H. Knoblauch.
The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Chair Sociology of Technology and Innovation, Prof. Dr. I. Schulz-Schaeffer
Reward-based crowdfunding as gift exchange
The research project aims at analyzing the peculiar combination of market exchange and donation in reward-based crowdfunding (or, in the German term, crowdsupporting) in the perspective of gift exchange theory.
(http://www.ts.tu-berlin.de/v_menue/forschungsprojekte/crowdfunding/)
Karrieremuster
The impact of different career patterns on the formation of independent research programs
(http://www.laudel.info/projekte/karrieremuster/)
„Independence of early career researchers”
Subproject in the network „Independence of Research“, funded by Volkswagenstiftung
(https://independenceofresearch.org/)
Locative Media: Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Spaces
The central focus of this project lies on cyber-physical interconnections of material and virtual spaces enabled by specific apps (such as "Pokémon Go" or "Tinder"), referred to as locative media.
(https://www.researchgate.net/project/Locative-Media-Inclusion-and-Exclusion-in-Urban-Spaces-LoMUS)
Chair Sociology of Organisations
Entrepreneurial Group Dynamics
Freigeist-Fellowship, funded by VolkswagenStiftung
New Consumption Practices and the Change of the Role of the Consumer
funded by Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung
Chair Methods of Social Research, Prof. Dr. Nina Baur
Commodities and Knowledge - Spatial Knowledge of Consumers and Producers, subproject of SFB 1265
funded by DFG (German Research Foundation)
Chair Sociology of Architecture and Planning, Prof. Dr. Martina Löw
Star Architecture and its Role for Repositioning Small and Medium Sized Cities
funded by DFG (German Research Foundation)
Housing our Selves: An Ethnography of Active Inhabitation
funded by DFG
Smart cities - Everyday Actions in Digitized Living Spaces, subproject of SFB 1265
funded by DFG
Integrated Graduate School, subproject of SFB 1265
funded by DFG