Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien

Four new visiting scientists We are delighted to welcome Melissa Artuso, Agnieszka Chmura, Tomás Nougués and Csaba Szaló to the Department! From March onwards, they will be working with Team Kazepov, Team Dowling and Team Durnová...

👋🎉 Hello and WELCOME to Melissa Artuso, Agnieszka Chmura, Tomás Nougués and Csaba Szaló! Learn more about their research and projects ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne...
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🔔 Your abstract has been accepted for the RC21 Conference in Vienna? Make sure to complete your registration by 12 March to confirm your participation!

👉 Details & registration: rc21-vienna2026.org/registration/

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🚨 #JobAlert Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social is looking for a university assistant #PraeDoc!
Apply by 8 March 2026 ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
We are looking forward to your application! #JoinOurTeam

#PoliticalSociology #SociologyOfEmotions #FeministSociology
#Sociology @univie.ac.at

How do we analyse #Emotions in our interdisciplinary research in CIDAPE?

Let’s introduce Work Package 4 and their methodology! 🧐

#inequality #climatechange #climateboundaries #symbolicboundaries

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👋Welcome, Federica Prete (PhD student #LifeCourseResearch visiting from Italy) She'll be working with @valeriabordone.bsky.social ➡️ @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social until mid-May to examine grandparent–grandchild relationships and their role in children’s leisure and well-being.
@univie.ac.at #Sociology

Jubiläumsfeier am 26.02.2026: 30 Jahre TransX - Verein für Transgender Personen Felix Lene Ihrig wird, basierend auf deren PhD-Projekt, einen Vortrag zur Gesundheitsversorgung und Pathologisierung von trans Personen halten.

📅 #EventTip Felix Lene Ihrig vom Institut für Soziologie hält am 26.02. im Rahmen der Jubiläumsfeier von TransX einen Vortrag über die #Gesundheitsversorgung und Pathologisierung von trans Personen.
📍Wiener Rathaus |⏰ Symposium ab 14:00, Sektempfang ab 19:00 #QueerHealth #Sociology @univie.ac.at

Neue Forschungsgruppe „Vererben in komplexen Familien“ vom FWF bewilligt (2026 – 2031) Der Österreichische Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) hat erstmals eine Forschungsgruppe im Förderumfang von 1.5 Millionen Euro für fünf Jahre im Bereich der Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften bewilligt. Die For...

🧩 FWF Bewilligung einer neuen Forschungsgruppe „Vererben in komplexen Familien“ (2026-2031)

Ulrike Zartler ist Mitglied des Konsortiums ab Okt. 2026 am Institut für Soziologie Wien. Kooperation mit der Uni Graz und dem Institut für Zivilrecht ➡️ tinyurl.com/yfznfme6

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🚨 #JobAlert - Join our team!
Prof. Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social is looking for a University assistant (pre-doc) #politicalsociology #sociologyofemotions
Apply by 27th of February 2026 ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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👏 Congratulations to our #womeninscience Team on all the small and big successes of everyday scientific life
#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInScience

Read more on each team member 👉 www.soz.univie.ac.at/forschung/fo...

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Neue Forschungsgruppe „Vererben in komplexen Familien“ vom FWF bewilligt (2026 – 2031) Der Österreichische Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) hat erstmals eine Forschungsgruppe im Förderumfang von 1.5 Millionen Euro für fünf Jahre im Bereich der Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften bewilligt. Die For...

📢For the 1st time, the @fwf-at.bsky.social has approved an interdisciplinary research group in the field of legal and social sciences. From Oct 2026, Prof Ulrike Zartler will lead the #FamilySociology strand of the research group "Inheriting in complex families". 🤝 Collab w/ @uni-graz.at
#Sociology

Portrait of Carmela Chiapperini

👋We are happy to welcome Carmela Chiapperini (University of Bari Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy) as a new #VisitingPhDCandidate at the team of Prof. Yuri Kazepov until August 2026! Learn more about her research ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne...
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⏰ #DontMiss Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social (our Prof. for #PoliticalSociology) will be moderating this event on 19 Feb 2026, 18:30 at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna ⤵️

Gruppenbild von Eva-Maria Schmidt mit der Habilitationskommission, im Hintergrund ihre Präsentation mit dem Titel "Multiple relationalities and multiple perspectives"

👏🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Dr. Eva-Maria Schmidt zur erfolgreich abgeschlossenen #Habilitation! Wir freuen uns, dass sie die Lehrbefugnis für das Fach #Soziologie erhält und wünschen ihr weiterhin viel Erfolg in Forschung und Lehre.
📸: Eva-Maria Schmidt (4. v. r.) mit Kommission
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Of Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones: Navigating Multilingual Challenges in Reconstructive Forced Migration Research | Article | Social Inclusion Ana Mijić, Yelyzaveta Zolotarova, Olena Tkalich, Michael Parzer

📢 New #OpenAccess article by Ana Mijić, Michael Parzer, Yelyzaveta Zolotarova and Olena Tkalich: "Of Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones: Navigating Multilingual Challenges in Reconstructive Forced Migration Research" ➡️ www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus... @univie.ac.at #SocialResearch

Portrait of Julia Leesch

👋A warm welcome to Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social, (MPI for #DemographicResearch) visiting from Rostock for 2 weeks to work with Prof. Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social on #LifeCourse research.
Learn more ➡️ t.ly/jQp2d
@univie.ac.at #Sociology

⏰Reminder to take your chance and apply by 1 February 2026!
🔎 Prof. Michaela Pfadenhauer is looking for a University assistant (pre-doc) in her working group #Knowledge and #Culture
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Abstract: Between conspiracy and critique: the politics of epistemic insecurity in the “lab leak controversy” Technoscientific controversies are not only public disputes over science and technology. Some of them may also evolve into security events that shape how security knowledge is produced and contested. A prime example of this dynamic is the “lab leak controversy” about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on this case, the article asks: how was the epistemic authority of liberal global health institutions challenged throughout this controversy, and how did this shape the prospects of making security public? To explore how the authority of established security knowledge producers is challenged and destabilized, the article introduces the concept epistemic insecurity and develops a framework for analyzing the construction, management, and political effects of epistemic insecurity. Through this lens, the paper studies the transformation of the “lab leak” conspiracy theory into an expert hypothesis considered by established political and scientific authorities and examines how this process interacted with the epistemic authority of global health institutions and shaped the space for their critique. It finds that the management of epistemic insecurity by liberal institutions initially delegitimized any critique and later led to the personalization and technocratization of critique, thus preventing a deeper critical reflection on the entanglements of science and security.

New publications from Dagmar Vorlíček @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social!

📝 New article in Security Dialogue on epistemic insecurity and the lab leak controversy: t.ly/1zPOI

📖 New book chapter: Science and International Relations: Knowing and Making the International: t.ly/0Zdc5

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

New in ESR
Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

📢 Check out this new article by Nadia Steiber (our Professor for Social Structure Research and Quantitative Methods) and Christina Siegert!
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#Sociology #Hypogamy #GenderEquality ⤵️

Thanks @marcoalbertini.bsky.social for visiting our Team and for your very interesting talk today @ifswien.bsky.social
#E-administration #education #age #digitaldivide

📣 Veranstaltungshinweis

Wir freuen uns besonders, dass unser Professor Yuri Kazepov vom Institut für Soziologie als Panelist an der Diskussion beteiligt ist.

📢 New application deadline for this Pre-Doc position at Michaela Pfadenhauer's working group "Knowledge and Culture"!
➡️ Apply by 19 January 2026
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
@univie.ac.at #Sociology #Wissenssoziologie #Soziologie

Science Talk: "Was braucht unsere Demokratie? Über die Rolle und Verantwortung unserer Hochschulen" Montag, 12. Jänner 2026, Beginn 19:00 Uhr, Neuer Veranstaltungsort: TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, Prechtlsaal, 1040 Wien

Podiumsdiskussion mit: Eva-Maria Holzleitner (Bundesministerin für Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung), Heinz Fischer (Bundespräsident a.D.) und Anna Durnová (Professorin für Politische Soziologie an der Universität Wien) Moderation: Nikolaus Possanner (BMFWF)

#EventTip 12.01.2026: Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social im #BMFWF Science Talk mit Eva-Maria Holzleitner (Bundesministerin für Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung) & Heinz Fischer (Bundespräsident a.D.)
⏰19:00 Uhr |📍TU Wien, Prechtlsaal, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
Mit Anmeldung ➡️ t.ly/JJcqP

On Monday our Team will host a talk by @marcoalbertini.bsky.social who will talk about "A decade of E-administration utilization in Europe: a tale of income, education, and age-related digital divides"

📅⏰📍Join us on the 12th of January at 11:30 in Seminar room 2 @ifswien.bsky.social

For details 👇

Eine Collage: Links das Der Spiegel Cover, rechts: Porträt von Ulrike Zartler

Unsere Professorin für #Familiensoziologie Ulrike Zartler im Gespräch mit dem @spiegel.de für die Cover-Story "Puh, Patchwork. Wie Familie trotz Trennung gelingen kann" (Heft 52/2025). Jetzt (mit Abo) lesen ➡️ tinyurl.com/yz2me7v7
#Soziologie #Patchwork
Cover: Der Spiegel / Foto: @univie.ac.at

📢 PhD positions @univie.ac.at

Follow this link 👇 to apply for one of the 40 paid PhD positions @univie.ac.at and select #ViDSS also for available topics and supervisors in #Sociology @ifswien.bsky.social

📣 Talk by Marco Albertini (Professor of #Sociology, University of #Bologna)
"A decade of E-administration utilization in Europe: a tale of income, education, and age-related digital divides"
📅 12 Jan 2026 | ⏰ 11:30-13:00
📍 Department of Sociology, Seminar room 2, @univie.ac.at
All info ➡️ t.ly/WS8oH

"Zur Ideen- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Institutional Ethnography" mit Barbara Hönig (Institut für Soziale Arbeit, FH JOANNEUM Graz) Mi, 07.01.2026 | 17:00 Uhr | Seminarraum 3 (1. Stock) mit Anmeldung

📣 Einladung zum Vortrag von Barbara Hönig (FH JOANNEUM Graz) zur #InstitutionalEthnography (Dorothy E. Smith)
📅 07.01.2026 | ⏰ 17:00 Uhr
📍 Institut für Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, @univie.ac.at
Alle Infos auf unserer Website ⤵️
#Soziologie

🚨 #JobAlert - Join our team!
Prof. Michaela Pfadenhauer is looking for a University assistant (pre-doc) in the working group #KnowledgeAndCulture
Apply by 9 January 2026 ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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⏰The Pitch Your Work deadline is approaching! Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the RC21 Conference 2026!

📅Deadline: 29 December 2025.
👉See details: rc21-vienna2026.org/pitch-your-w...

#rc21 #rc21vienna2026

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