SozW Soziale Welt

The Bologna Process, which began in 1999, introduced a variety of changes in higher education systems across Europe, primarily in the form of a common degree structure comprising two main cycles (undergraduate and postgraduate level). A good 25...

This article examines the factors that enable prospective students from non-academic families to overcome social disparities within higher education. Building on the resource substitution hypothesis (Mirowsky & Ross, 2011) and rational choice...

This paper applies the concept of worldviews (Wohlrab-Sahr/Benthaus-Apel 2006) to the transmission of religiosity across three generations of a family, in order to understand the dynamics of religious and non-religious connections to social...

This study examines the division of paid labor in households with children by comparing female same-sex and different-sex couples in Germany. Although research indicates that same-sex couples tend to distribute labor more equitably, most studies...

Estimating discriminatory gaps is one of the core topics of Sociology. A large number of studies use observational data to estimate these gaps, typically by controlling for potentially confounding factors and interpreting the coefficient of the...

The extent to which crowdwork platforms enable learning processes and professional development is controversial. This article contributes to resolving this controversy by focusing on a specific occupational field and examining IT crowdwork on...

In current sociological debates, traditional concepts of infrastructure are increasingly being questioned because they focus too narrowly on permanent and spatially extensive systems that serve a welfare state’s idea of the common good. If these...

Limited transferability of foreign human capital and limited signaling value of foreign degrees are important explanations for immigrants’ labor market disadvantages. While previous scholarship analysed the role of institutional settings in home...

The aim of the study is to compare workers and other occupational groups with regard to different dimensions of religiosity. The study is based on cumulated and harmonized data sets (primarily GGSS) from 1953 to 2023. The relationship of workers to...

This article addresses an urgent problem in current secularization research. While this body of research reveals what secular people do not believe in, it shows little about what they do believe in. Secularity is often understood negatively as the...

In Germany, social origin has a particularly strong impact on success in school and secondary school-leaving certificates are crucial for occupational opportunities. Due to these social and institutional conditions, cognitive learning potentials...

People constantly perform everyday categorisation tasks. Among other things, they differentiate and categorise the people around them. The significance of such everyday differentiations has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This article shows...

In response to the current agricultural and food system crisis, alternative food provision methods are emerging. Critics argue that these systems are the privilege of a white, high-income middle class, creating new social distinctions. This study...

While there is considerable evidence indicating that attractiveness confers advantages in various areas of life, we know little about the social determinants of perceived physical attractiveness. This holds in particular with respect to (ethnic)...

People constantly perform everyday categorisation tasks. Among other things, they differentiate and categorise the people around them. The significance of such everyday differentiations has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This article shows...

This article deals with the self-positioning of (long-term) unemployed under the conditions of current social labeling from the perspective of a sociology of knowledge. Based on a qualitative interview study, the relationship between...

The influx of refugees to Germany, particularly from Syria and Ukraine, has significantly increased over the past decade due to wars and political tensions in the Middle East and Europe. These refugee groups vary not only in their demographic...

This article examines continuities and changes in volunteer support for refugees from 2015 to the current situation in Ukraine. It focuses on the question whether motives of volunteers have shifted since their involvement in the 2015 refugee crisis....

This article examines how mass media in Germany attributed characteristics to refugees from Syria and the Middle East in 2015 and to Ukrainian refugees in 2022, particularly in terms of their perceived ability—or inability—to integrate into...

The recent wave of solidarity for Ukrainian refugees after Russia’s full-scale invasion is reflected in the massive taking in of refugees into private households in European countries. This is also true for Poland and Switzerland: In Poland,...

The influx of refugees to Germany, particularly from Syria and Ukraine, has significantly increased over the past decade due to wars and political tensions in the Middle East and Europe. These refugee groups vary not only in their demographic...

Building upon recent debates on the (a)political qualities of refugee support, this article draws from a quantitative survey among refugee supporters in Germany (n=2000) to assess the prevalence of political motivations and practices, the existence...