The farewell lecture of Prof. Dr. Christoph Weischer will take place on 1.6.2022 at 6 pm. In lecture hall SCH 121.5, Prof. Weischer will speak on "Social Structure Analysis. State of the Art".

Unfortunately, the institute colloquium has to be postponed.
It is expected that the lecture will be made up on June 15, 2022!


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The Institute Colloquium will be held on May 18, 2022. It starts at 14 c.t. in the conference room.
Ines Michalowski will speak about the "Scope and Limits of Organizational Opening for Religious Minorities".

All who are interested are welcome to attend!

When is refugee policy racist? Stefanie Ernst, Joachim Renn and Errol Babacan will deal with this question on 31.5.2022 against the background of current events in Ukraine. In the form of a panel discussion, specific sociological aspects of the event will be given space, starting at 6 pm in the lecture hall (SCH 5).
All interested parties are cordially invited to participate and join in the discussion.

Afterwards, the Institute invites all interested parties to discuss these or other questions in more detail at a joint drink in the early evening.

New benches and tables have recently been installed in the inner courtyard of the institute! Three table sets, two large benches around the plant troughs and a larger niche with seating invite you to linger, work, relax in the fresh air! Everyone is cordially invited to welcome spring there as well!

The Institute mourns the death of long-time colleague PD Dr. Monika Friedrich, who succumbed to a serious illness. Monika Friedrich (March 1, 1941 - March 25, 2022) was employed at the Institute from 1974 until her retirement in 2006 as a research associate, professor (ret.) and private lecturer. In her teaching and research, she was extremely committed to an "interpretative approach" as she had become acquainted with it during her sociological studies in the USA. According to this approach, social reality does not represent an objective, describable order, but rather an ongoing interpretative process, at the center of which are the interpretations of meaning by the actors themselves. Methodologically, this paradigm corresponds to a qualitative approach based on the interpretations of the actors, as Ms. Friedrich taught at the Institute over many years and also applied in her own research.

We mourn the loss of a dear, committed and always helpful colleague.

The official Twitter account of the Institute is now online (@IfS_wwu).
There you can find, among other things, announcements of events at the institute (meetings, conferences, workshops, colloquia; summer festival, festivities), references to public appearances of institute members, to (ongoing) research projects as well as new publications that can be attributed to institute members.
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Interested parties are invited to follow and participate!

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