Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally interested readers. Website: www.soziale-welt.de
This article is the first to comprehensively examine the question of the extent to which social origin exerts an influence on the choice of educational and occupational options after dropping out of a first degree programme. Based on the survey of...
In opposition to the thesis of a predominantly instrumental employment orientation, research has shown that workers in low-skilled jobs have a variety of non-instrumental work orientations. This article focuses on workers without valid formal...
"Biodiversity" is a particular term that brings complex ideas of the "abundance of life" to a scientific formula and at the same time marks it as a desirable state. Since the early 1990s, the meta-narrative "threatened biodiversity" has functioned...
The BIBB Establishment Panel on Qualification and Competence Development is the second largest annual panel survey of firms in Germany. In this article, we present the harmonised longitudinal data set from the first wave in 2011 to the 2019 wave,...
The German Survey on Volunteering (FWS) is a representative telephone survey of voluntary activities of persons aged 14 and older in Germany. Since 1999, information on volunteering and its context, extent and motives as well as on donations and the...
Initiated by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr), the research data centre (Forschungsdatenzentrum im Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (FDZ im KBA)) provides anonymised quantitative microdata free of...