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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...

"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...

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...

The contact restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic influence social relationships in families and at work. Drawing on Granovetter’s network theory, the changes of strong and weak ties in different life spheres of middle-class...

Political trust is one aspect that might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict government-implemented measures to fight the virus. Previous studies report an increase in political trust at the onset of the pandemic in several European...

Political trust is one aspect that might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict government-implemented measures to fight the virus. Previous studies report an increase in political trust at the onset of the pandemic in several European...

The possible consequences of the Corona crisis for social inequalities have received a lot of attention in public as well as scientific debates. On the one hand, concerns have been raised that the pandemic intensified pre-existing patterns of social...

Based on data from a supplementary survey of the German Socio-Economic Panel on the Covid-19 pandemic (SOEP-CoV), this article examines differences in the implementation of various person-related and organizational occupational safety and health...