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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)...