Description: social mobility, stratification and inequality in contemporary societies
Mein Forschungsinteresse richtet sich auf die Ursachen und Folgen sozialer Ungleichheit und die vergleichende Beschreibung von Sozialstrukturen postindustrieller Gesellschaften. Aktuell beforsche ich die Folgen mehrdimensionaler sozialer Ungleichheit aus international vergleichender Perspektive, die Rolle von Ungleichheit bei der Ausbildung politischer Einstellungen und die Erklärung sozialer Ungleichheit beim Studiumszugang. Nach dem Studium der Soziologie, Politikwissenschaften und Volkswirtschaftslehre a
Only recently, inequality in admission to higher education became subject of sociological interest. Universities use admission tests to regulate access to study courses effectively becoming the gatekeeper to middle class positions. While American research pointed out that increasing competition can advantage aspiring students from privileged backgrounds, little is known about the role of admission tests in creating inequality in access to university or choice of field of study in Germany. Generally, univers
The Research connects the study of occupational change with the research on social mobility. At least two hypotheses relating societal change to inequality have been formulated in each research tradition. First, the skill-biased technological change hypothesis suggests that the surge in educational attainment and ongoing automation and computerization results in an upgrading of the occupational structure that leads to an increasing demand in high-skilled non-manual jobs and a continuous decline in routine o