Welcome to the Chair of Sociology with Focus on Work, Economy and Organization
Work, economy and organizations are central topics in sociology: they are constitutive for the formation and reproduction of power and inequality relations, for the emergence of order and conflicts, for mechanisms of differentiation and valuation as well as for participation, cohesion and exclusion.
The analysis of divisions of labor and work organization, dynamics of capitalist societies and the functioning of organizations allows understanding social boundaries and separations - such as work/home, production/reproduction, public/private sphere - as well as the everyday practices and individual struggles for agency.
At the same time, work, economy and organization are in dynamic and contradictory processes of change. Digital transformations are shifting job profiles and activities, work is becoming more mobile and flexible, organizational boundaries are becoming blurred. Inequalities, conflicts and solidarities are changing, industrial relations are challenged anew. The demands individuals are confronted with are becoming more complex; stress and exhaustion have been increasing in many areas of the working world for years. This also significantly affects areas of often unpaid and less visible care work.
In view of continuing dynamic technological developments, demographic change and the long-term consequences of the Covid19 pandemic, which have led, among other things, to a spatial reorganization of work, our team addresses various questions of work, economy and organization theoretically and empirically. Special focuses are:
- Digital Transformation of Work (including Artificial Intelligence, Working from Home, Social Media)
- Work and Gender Relations
- Demands, Subjectivation and Agency in the Digital Age
- Discourses on the Future of Work and Technology
- Capitalism Theory, Theories of Digital Capitalism
- Sociology of Trade Unions, Industrial Relations, Co-Determination, Labor Conflicts
- Care Work, the Relation between Paid and Unpaid Work, Invisible Work
- Qualitative Social Research
