► Prof. Dr. Nicolas Legewie has held the Chair of Methods and Social Structure Analysis since 1.6.25 (previously: Prof. Dr. Weischer).
Dr. Nicolas Legewie

Research Foci
- Social inequalities
- Education
- Migration & Integration
- Social networks
- Artificial Intelligence
- Research methods, especially Video Data Analysis
Further Affiliation at the University of Münster
CV
Academic Education
- Master in social science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Positions
- Interim professor of methods and social inequality, University Münster.
- Academic partner (postdoc) and lecturer at Faculty of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt.
- Visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology of University of Pennsylvania.
- Deputy principal investigator (postdoc) at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin): „Mentoring of Refugees (MORE)“ (Prof. Martin Kroh, German Institute for Economic Research). Funding: Leibniz-Competition.
- Postdoctoral researcher at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin): „Das Erwachsenwerden türkischer Migrantennachkommen:Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie auf Basis des SOEP“. German Institute for Economic Research
- Visiting fellow at Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
- PhD Student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Excellence Initiative of the German Research Society), Humboldt-University of Berlin.
- Visiting fellow at theInstitute of Soziology at the Columbia University, New York (USA).
- Visiting fellow at Columbia University, New York (USA)
Teaching
- Lecture: Statistik I (Vorlesung) [062422]
- [ – | Thu, – | | SCH 121.5]
- Lecture: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung I (Vorlesung) [062423]
- [ – | Wed, – | | SCH 121.5]
- Seminar: Diversität und Bias in Chatbots – Ein Forschungsseminar [062508]
- [ – | Thu, – | | SCH 121.520]
- Colloquium: Kolloquium. Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden in der Praxis: Beratung für empirische Abschlussarbeiten" [062426]
- [ – | Thu, – | | SCH 121.501]
- Seminar: Big Data und soziale Mobilität (quantitative Methoden II) [060514]
- [ – | Single Course | SCH 121.519]
- [ – | Single Course | SCH 121.501]
- [ – | Single Course | SCH 121.501]
- Single lecture / Single seminar: Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten – Forschungsfragen, Konzepte, Textarbeit [060515]
- [ – | Single Course]
- [ – | Single Course]
- Lecture: Statistik II (Vorlesung) [066494]
- Lecture: Tutorien der Vorlesung Statistik II [066506]
- Seminar: Big Data und soziale Mobilität (quantitative Methoden II) [066503]
- Seminar: Künstliche Intelligenz aus soziologischer Perspektive [066504]
- Seminar: Einführung in R für die statistische Datenanalyse zu sozialer Ungleichheit (quantitative Methoden II) [066505]
- Colloquium: Kolloquium Methoden der Sozialforschung [066502]
- Lecture: Statistik I (Vorlesung) [064465]
- Lecture: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung I (Vorlesung) [064466]
- Seminar: Digital Social Science Research [064497]
- Colloquium: Kolloquium. Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden in der Praxis: Beratung für empirische Abschlussarbeiten" [064496]
- Lecture: Statistik I (Vorlesung) [062422]
Projects
- Discrimination in everyday interactions – A field-experimental study using computer vision. ()
Project Carried out outside the University Münster - A mixed-methods study of rampage school shootings ()
Project Carried out outside the University Münster - Attitudes toward the use of Artificual Intelligence in public institutions. ()
Project Carried out outside the University Münster
- Discrimination in everyday interactions – A field-experimental study using computer vision. ()
Publications
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Anne, Nassauer. . “Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis.” Sociological Methods and Research 52 (3).
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Shiffer-Sebba, Doron. . “3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision.” Sociological Methods and Research 52 (3).
Special Issues of Journals
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne, eds. .“Special Issue: The Present and Future of Video-based Social Science Research.” Special Issue Sociological Methods and Research 3.
Books (Monographs)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . Video Data Analysis: How to Use 21st Century Video in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, Nicolas, Jacobsen, Jannes, Krieger, Magdalena, Löbel, Lea-Marie, Kroh, Martin, Jaschke, Philipp, and Schacht, Diana. . “Mentoring as a Grass Roots Effort For Integrating Refugees – Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48 (17).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” in Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, edited by Nina Baur and Jörg Blasius. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassuaer, Anne. . “Video Data Analysis: How 21st century video data reshapes social science research.”
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Upward Mobility in Education – The Role of Personal Networks Across the Life Course.” Social Inclusion 9 (4).
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . “Video Data Analysis: A Methodological Framework for a Novel Research Trend.” Sociological Methods and Research 50 (1).
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Tucci, Ingrid. . “Turning Points in Labour Market Trajectories – A Panel-based Mixed Methods Analysis.” Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 12 (1).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Digital Family Research.” in Handbook of the Sociology of the Family, edited by Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Patenschaften zwischen Geflüchteten und Einheimischen – Determinanten von Zufriedenheit in der Tandembeziehung.” in Engagement für Integration und Teilhabe, edited by Frank Gesemann and Iris Nentwig_Gesemann. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . “Methodologische Entwicklungen in der Gewaltforschung: Videodatenanalyse, Mixed Methods und Big Data.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 45 (1).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . “Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming.” in Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming, edited by Shing-Ling Chen, Zhoujun J. Chen and Nicole Allaire. Lexington: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Legewie, Nicolas, Jacobsen, Jannes, and Krieger, Magdalena. . “Labor market participation of refugees in Germany: Legal context and individual-level factors.” in Refugees in Canada and Germany: Responses in policy and practice, edited by Annette Korntheuer, Debora B. Maehler, Pritchard Paul and Lori Wilkinson. Köln: Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Legewie, Nicolas, Krieger, Magdalena, Jaschke, Philipp, Kroh, Martin, and Löbel, Lea-Maria. . “Mentorenprogramme fördern die Integration von Geflüchteten.” DIW Wochenbericht 10(49
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . “How COVID-19 could help social science researchers.”
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, and Nicolas, Nassauer Anne. . “Analyzing 21st Century Video Data on Situational Dynamics – Key Issues and Challenges.” Social sciences 8 (3).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” in Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, edited by Nina Baur and Jörg Blasius. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Legewie, Nicolas, Nassauer, Anne, and Stuerznickel. . “Potentiale der Analyse Visueller Daten im 21. Jahrhundert. Bericht zum Blankensee-Colloquium 2019 zur Erfassung und Analyse Sozialen Wandels.”
- Krieger, Magdalena, Löbel, Lea-Maria, Martin, Kroh, and Jaschke, Philipp. . “Integrating Randomized Controlled Field Trials into (existing) Panel Surveys – The ‘Mentoring of Refugees’ Study.”
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Nassauer, Anne. . “YouTube, Google, Facebook: 21st Century Online Video Research and Research Ethics.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 19 (3).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas, Jacobsen, Jannes, Kroh, Martin, and Salikutluk, Zerrin. . “Arbeitsmarktpotenzial, Qualifikationsniveau, berufliche Perspektiven Geflüchteter.” in Der lange Weg vom Ankommen zum Bleiben - Zuwanderung und Integration von Geflüchteten in Kommunen, edited by Nicolas Legewie, Jannes Jacobsen, Martin Kroh and Zerrin Salikutluk. Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Bohrmann, Sandra. . “Sozialer Auf- und Abstieg: Angleichung bei Männern und Frauen.‘.”
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Anchored Calibration. From Qualitative Data to Fuzzy Sets.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 18 (3).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Culture, Narratives, and Upward Educational Mobility.” in Youth in education: The necessity of valuing ethno-cultural diversity , edited by Noel Clycq, Jacques Haers, Marie McAndrew, Sara Mels and Timmermann Christiane. London: Routledge.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Legewie, Nicolas, and Tucci, Ingrid. . “Panel-basierte Mixed Methods Studien.” SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “Puncturing Inequalities: A configurational analysis of educational upward mobility.” Dissertation thesis, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
- Legewie, Nicolas. . “An Introduction to Applied Data Analysis with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 14 (3).