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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 22/Sept/2025
1:00pm
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4:00pm
Vers1: DGS Section Speakers' Meeting
WS1: audiotranskription: "AI in qualitative research: prompts, software solutions and methodological approaches"
WS2: GESIS: “Unlocking Digital Behavioral Data: New Frontiers in Web Tracking and App-Based Social Science Research”
WS3: Introduction to MAXQDA
WS4: “Exchange and networking with SocioHub: The collaboration portal for the sociological community”
 
5:00pm
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8:30pm
Opening event (Philharmonie Duisburg)
Date: Tuesday, 23/Sept/2025
9:00am
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12:00pm
Plenary 1: 'Transition': Definitions and theoretical concepts
Plenary 2: Rapid, tough transitions: Temporality and (un)availability as parameters of social change
Plenary 3: Scientific authority in authoritarian conditions: Politicizability and political responsibility of sociology
 
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Poster exhibition (opening)
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Füh1: Green lunch break in the Duisburg city forest directly behind the university
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Dipesh Chakrabarty: Revisiting the Problem of Historical Transitions
2:15pm
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3:45pm
SV3: Distributing wealth, uniting society? A discussion event on wealth inequality and social cohesion
2:15pm
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5:00pm
AdH1: Ableism research as a work in progress: transition potentials within and outside Dis/ability Studies
AdH11: Images that are not seen. October 7, 2023 and sociology
AdH12: Borders in Transition
AdH16: Life lies in the spaces in between. Sociological conceptions of the in-between
AdH18: The unease of the losers of modernization. How experiences of devaluation and symbolic demarcations jeopardize social cohesion
AdH2: Academic freedom of speech - An empirical study under discussion
AdH42: Social negotiations around infrastructures and commons
AdH7: Am I on a road to nowhere? - Transitions from school to further education and training for marginalized young people
AdH73: Secondary analysis of qualitative research data - practical questions, opportunities and challenges
AdH74: Self-determined gender? Ambivalences and perspectives of gender transitions
AdH86: Transitions of the rural? The regional self-image in the field of tension between the challenges of rural areas
AdH87: Transitions in China of the present day
Sek13: Family Sociology: "Longitudinal perspectives on family dynamics"
Sek16: Section Youth Sociology: "Youth transformation/youth transformations"
Sek18: Cultural sociology: "Science Wars - cultural battles over the social and cultural sciences"
Sek2: Section Age(ing) and Society: "Transformations of age: age categories, age limits and age norms in social and cultural change"
Sek20: Section Land, Agricultural and Food Sociology, Section Animal-Human Relations Working Group: "Meat practices between persistence and transformation"
Sek28: Migration and Ethnic Minorities Section: "Transitions and temporalities in migration"
Sek3: Section Sociology of Labor and Industry: "Current research in the sociology of work and industry"
Sek31:Modelling and Simulation Section: "Analytical perspectives on transition processes: Patterns and mechanisms"
Sek32: Section Organizational Sociology: "Organization and Transitions: Current research in organizational sociology"
Sek34: Section Political Sociology: "Everything is political? Problematizing and shaping collective orders in late modernity"
Sek41: Section for Religion, Section for Knowledge: "Knowledge in transitions - knowledge about transitions"
Sek42: Social Indicators Section: “Welfare development in troubled times”
Sek43:Section Social Problems and Social Control: "Enabling transitions: The politicization of knowledge constellations"
Sek47: Section Social Politics: "Forum for socio-political research"
Sek49: Section Sociology of Childhood: "Current research and debates in the sociology of childhood"
Sek50: Section Sociology of Sport and the Body: "Transitive bodies and embodied transitions: Processes, relations and resistances"
Sek51: Section History of Sociology: "Sociology and democratic transition(s) - historical-comparative perspectives"
Sek57: Section Urban and regional sociology: "Current topics in urban and regional sociology"
Sek6: : Section Biographical Research: "Transitions from a biography theory perspective"
Sek61: Section Economic Sociology: "Economy in transition"
Sek8: Section Developmental Sociology and Social Anthropology: "Development Sociology in Transition"
 
4:30pm
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6:30pm
Füh2: City tour by bus
5:00pm
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6:00pm
Meeting of members - Section Age(ing) and Society
Meeting of members - Section Rural, agricultural and nutritional sociology
Meeting of members - Section Migration and ethnic minorities
Meeting of members - Section Modeling and simulation
Meeting of members - Section Organizational sociology
Meeting of members - Section Political Sociology
Meeting of members - Section Labour and industrial sociology
Meeting of members - Section Social indicators
Meeting of members - Section Social problems and social control
Meeting of members - Section Social Politic
Meeting of members - Section Sociology of Childhood
Meeting of members - Section Sociology of the Body and Sport
Meeting of members - Section History of Sociology
Meeting of members - Section Urban and regional sociology
Meeting of members - Section Biographical research
Meeting of members - Section Economic sociology
Meeting of members - Section Sociology of knowledge
Meeting of members - Section Working Group "Sociology of Sustainability"
Meeting of members - Section Development sociology and social anthropology
Meeting of members - Section Family sociology
Meeting of members - Section Youth sociology
Meeting of members - Section Cultural sociology
Panel1: "Democracy and sustainability"
 
5:00pm
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6:30pm
Author Meets Critics: Andreas Reckwitz: "Loss. A fundamental problem of modernity."
6:00pm
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8:00pm
SV1: Schools under pressure: What can sociology do in times of crisis?
SV2: Transition to a “University for All”? Diversity, equality and inclusion in science and higher education between participation and regression
SV5:Transitions in the world of work
Vers2: Mid-level faculty meeting on current challenges facing mid-level faculty: perspectives from inside and outside
Vers3: Student assembly: Studying in proto-fascist times
 
7:00pm
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9:00pm
canceled - Podcast recording ›Lage der Nation‹
Location: LX1205
7:00pm
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9:15pm
Cinema on campus: “We are all Detroit - On staying and disappearing”
Date: Wednesday, 24/Sept/2025
9:00am
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11:45am
AdH10: Architecture - On the materiality and spatiality of social transitions
AdH106: Housing crisis as a driver of social inequality and conflict
AdH13: Cleavages in Transition - Current dynamics of social division
AdH19: Data Body-Avatar-Digital Twin. Digital figures of the subject in the making
AdH20: The hybridization of work constellations as a transition in the world of work
AdH21: The transformation of civil society: politicization, polarization and social cohesion
AdH22: Digital discourse transitions and algorithmic power/knowledge regimes. Analyses of the digital reorganization of discourses
AdH23: Digitalization of partnership violence
AdH24: Displaced Ukrainians in times of uncertainties
AdH26: A shift in the boundaries of speakability? On the sociological classification of discursive transition diagnoses
AdH27: Emotions as patterns of interpretation of social transitions
AdH29: Committed science in times of social transitions
AdH3: Actor without human - conception and consequences of non-human agency
AdH31: Development of educational and career aspirations as a guide for the transition to vocational training
AdH32: Successful research data management: basics - current developments - practical tips
AdH37: Flight shame, eco-mourning, fear of the future: emotions and affects in socio-ecological transitions
AdH38: Food worlds in transition
AdH40: Friendships in transition, transitions of friendship
AdH41: Frictioning Transitions: Modes, Methods and Critique of AI-driven Transformations
AdH64: Political theory(ies) of money in times of upheaval
AdH67: Qualitative Methods and Social Theory: Necessary Complement or Insurmountable Contradiction?
AdH72: Reciprocity in transition - reciprocity in the imbalance?
AdH91: Transitions of expertise: Change and crisis of knowledge and expert cultures?
AdH94: Drivers of transition?
Sek11: Sektion Sociology of Europe: "Europe in transition – bringing Eastern Europe back in"
Sek12: Sektion Family Sociology: "Current projects in family sociology research"
Sek17: Section Cultural Sociology: "Departure, metamorphosis, demise, semantics of social transitions"
Sek25: Section Methods of Empirical Social Research: "Topics of empirical social research"
Sek29: Section Migration and Ethnic Minorities, Section Urban and Regional Sociology: Migration and urban sociological perspectives on arrival spaces
Sek30: Section Modelling and Simulation: "Current developments in modeling and simulation"
Sek35: Section Political Sociology: "From right-wing populism to fascism - current debates about the extreme right"
Sek37: Sektion Sociology of Profession: "Accelerate, slow down, sit out - professions as drivers of transformation"
Sek44: Section Social Problems and Social Control, Section Sociology of Sport and the Body: "Disability in Transition - Analyses of a Category of Difference between Transformation, Persistence and Mobilization
Sek45:Section Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis: "Current research projects on social structure and social inequality"
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Author Meets Critics: New publications on polarisation and populism (Nils C. Kumkar / Kolja Möller)
Meeting AK Sociology of the Far Right
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Gisèle Sapiro: Towards a sociology of crisis
1:00pm
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5:00pm
Exk1: Duisburg-Marxloh as an arrival area
2:15pm
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5:00pm
AdH104: Waste in Transition? New perspectives on a sociology of waste
AdH107: Living in life crises, living as a life crisis: risks, transitions, emergencies
AdH14: Computational Social Science: Trends and sample studies
AdH28: Energy transitions. Attempts at a decidedly socio-technical perspective
AdH45: Interdependencies between migration from privileged contexts and labour market outcomes
AdH46: Intragenerational educational dynamics: The influence of peer contexts on educational transitions
AdH49: War, terror and pandemics - singular crises in sociology
AdH5: All the lonely people - loneliness in the context of social transitions
AdH50: Turbulence: On the sociology of turbulent conditions
AdH51: Life course perspective in educational research - transitions as the key to understanding complex educational processes
AdH52: Lessons from the non-binary. Potentials of sociological research on and with non-binarity.
AdH53: Liberal democracy 'in transition'? Comparative perspectives on the global successes of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism
AdH54: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing und Qualitative Methoden
AdH55: Masculinity(s) in transition(s)? Perspectives on male care and care work in view of the pluralization of lifestyles, the transnationalization of care work and the change in gender and generational arrangements
AdH56: Meet the editors: How do sociological journals work?
AdH59: Sustainability transitions in contemporary capitalism
AdH60: News of the scandal?! State of research and theoretical connections to a transitory phenomenon
AdH61: Of Time and the City: Researching and conceiving the entangled temporalities of urban transformation around the world
AdH62: Places of Transition. Space, affect and temporality
AdH63: Patrimonial capitalism? Transitions of wealth, ownership and control in the present
AdH70: Spatial mobility as an individual and social phenomenon of transition
AdH79: Silent revolution? The academization of the world of work and life as a knowledge transition
AdH80: Structural change in ownership - transformation, transition, diversification, persistence?
Sek15: Section Women's and Gender Studies: "Paradoxical simultaneities - gender relations in transitions"
Sek19: Section Land, Agricultural and Food Sociology, Section Social Indicators: "Making rural areas visible: Approaches and challenges of social reporting"
Sek21: Section Media and Communication Sociology: "Controversial images. Reality(ies) in Transition"
Sek24: Section Medicine and Health Sociology: "Climate change, lifestyles and health"
Sek33: Section Organizational Sociology: "Model cases (in) organizational sociology"
Sek38: Sociology of law: "Law and exploitation"
Sek48: Section Social Politics: "20 years of structural reform of basic income support: social policy instruments, public discourse, social dynamics"
Sek5: Section Education and Upbringing: "Transitionen im deutschen Bildungsföderalismus"
Sek52: Section History of Sociology: "Phenomenology and critical theory"
Sek53: Section Sociological Network Research: " Transitions & network research"
Sek56: Section Sociological Theory; Section Science and Technology Studies: "Sociology of transformation or transformation of sociology? On the relationship between sociology and 'extra-sociological sociolizing"
Sek7: Section Biographical Research, Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research: "Qualitative research on transitions"
Sek9:: Section Developmental Sociology and Social Anthropology: "Democratic Transitions? Social Movement Activism After Autocracies"
SV6: Made it? 10 Years of Summer of Migration
 
5:00pm
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6:00pm
Author Meets Critics: Emanuel Deutschmann: "The exponential society. From the end of growth to the stabilization of the world"
Panel2: "Transitions from war to peace"
5:15pm
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9:30pm
Füh3: Brewery tour "König" brewery with bus transfer
5:30pm
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7:30pm
Füh4: End of the day in Duisburg city forest
6:00pm
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7:30pm
Exk2: Marxloh from the perspective of its residents
6:00pm
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9:00pm
Exk4: Guided tour of Duisburg Hochfeld
6:15pm
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8:15pm
Vers4: DGS General Meeting
Date: Thursday, 25/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Füh5: Inner harbor tour
9:00am
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12:00pm
Plenary 4: Democracy in transition?
Plenum 5: Dynamics of the energy transition. Standards, infrastructures and participation
Plenum 6: Transition policy
 
11:00am
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1:00pm
Füh6: Harbor tour by boat
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Author Meets Critics: Anna Schwenck: "Anna Schwenck: Flexible Authoritarianism. Cultivating ambition and loyalty in Russia"
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Michèle Lamont: Global Dignity and „Seeing Others“: Political, Environmental and Work-Based Recognition Compared
2:15pm
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5:00pm
AdH34: Expertise in transition
AdH39: Fetus, embryo, cell cluster, pregnancy tissue, baby, child? Constructions of the “unborn” in various fields of reproduction
AdH48: Credit as a mechanism of inequality Or the transition of (private) debt in times of social crisis
AdH58: Transnational migrant minors - access to rights and negotiations of belonging in transition
AdH6: Alma mater in transition? Transitions of care work and care needs in the academic field
AdH65: Police sociological perspectives on social transitions: Order, conflict and power in times of multiple crises
AdH71: Right-wing extremism and the transition of gender relations
AdH75: Socio-ecological transitions between conflict and cohesion
AdH76: Social science perspectives on the transformation in the coal phase-out regions
AdH78: Sociology in times of socio-ecological upheaval. In search of a new vocabulary
AdH8: Enhancing Reproducibility and Panel Modeling in Empirical Sociological Research
AdH81: Temporary change of location as transition? - Tourism-sociological perspectives on traveling as a social process
AdH84: Transition? Not without us! - Student perspectives on transitions
AdH85: Transitions of (in)finitude. Dying, death and mourning in social change
AdH9: Work in transition: Independent work in contemporary society
AdH93: Transit-times
AdH97: Contested transformation: facing a socio-ecological rollback?
AdH99: Diversity agenda without change? Transitions in the official handling of criticism of racism
Sek1: Section Age(ing) and Society, Section Education and Upbringing, Section Sociology of Youth, Section Sociology of Childhood: "Transitions in the life course. Age(ing), institutions and generational orders in transition"
Sek10: Section Sociology of Europe: "Current European sociological research projects"
Sek14: Section Women's and Gender Studies: "Sex(uality) and Gender in Progress – Transitionen und Transformationen von Geschlecht und Sexualität"
Sek22: Section Media and Communication Sociology: "Digital bodies in transition: avatars in games and society"
Sek23: Section Medicine and Health Sociology: "Current contributions to medical and health sociology"
Sek27: Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research: "Border crossings of qualitative methods: Transitions and transformations between basic and applied research"
Sek36: Section Sociology of Professions: "Professionalism in social professions: Nursing, medicine, therapy, social work, education and upbringing"
Sek39: Sociology of Law: "New approaches in the sociology of law"
Sek40: Section Sociology of Religion: "Religion and Nation: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion"
Sek46: Section Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis: "Transitions in the world of work and their consequences for social inequality"
Sek55: Section Sociological Theory: "From theory to theorizing: The many faces of sociological theorizing"
Sek58: Section Environmental and Sustainability Sociology: "Trends and topics in environmental and sustainability sociology"
Sek62: Section Science and Technology Studies: "Current perspectives in the sociology of science and technology"
Sek63: Section Sociology of knowledge: Sociology of Knowledge (in) a Changing World - 25 Years DGS Section Sociology of Knowledge
5:00pm
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6:00pm
Keynote Mario L. Small: Financial Institutions, Neighborhoods, and Racial Inequality
Meeting of members - Section Media and communication sociology
Meeting of members - Section Medical and health sociology
Meeting of members - Section Methods of qualitative social research
Meeting of members - Section Sociology of professions
Meeting of members - Section Legal sociology
Meeting of members - Section Sociology of Religion
Meeting of members - Section Social inequality and social structure analysis
Meeting of members - Section Sociological theory
Meeting of members - Section Environmental and sustainability sociology
Meeting of members - Section Science and technology research
Meeting of members - Section European sociology
Meeting of members - Section Women's and Gender Studies
 
5:00pm
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6:30pm
SV10: Scientific publishing in sociology: Challenges for the discipline and publishers
6:00pm
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7:30pm
Exk3: Marxloh from the perspective of its residents
6:00pm
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8:00pm
SV7: On the relationship between sociology and cultural studies
SV8: The Ambivalences of Intercultural Transitions. How Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism and Autocracy Undermine Democracy (Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
SV9: Gender, work and social inequalities in politically turbulent times: Between awakening and (re)traditionalization
DGS-Konzil
Date: Friday, 26/Sept/2025
9:00am
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11:45am
AdH100: From intervention to prevention. Transitions in healthcare
AdH101: From dichotomies to dimensions? Transitions in the conceptualization and survey of gender in quantitative social research
AdH102: From Transition to Transition. Spain after 1975 between role model and crisis laboratory
AdH103: Change, processes, transitions: transitions in cinematic societies and narratives
AdH105: Staging Knowledge, Knowledge of Staging: The relationship of science and politics in Transition
AdH108: Time in the welfare state - temporality in transition processes organized by the welfare state
AdH109: On the categorical order of transitions. Perspectives of Membership Categorization Analysis
AdH110: Between pathologization and empowerment: youth, gender and health in social transitions
AdH15: The end of diversity? Organizational theoretical explanations for the retreat of diversity
AdH17: The phenomenon of the "Reichsbürger"
AdH25: Disruptive power elites in times of global change. Current large-scale projects in elite research
AdH33: Food movements in social transition processes: For and against food justice?
AdH35: Extreme right-wing violence: empiricism and analysis
AdH36: Starting and extending a family in the context of (medically) assisted reproduction
AdH4: Algorithms, artificial intelligence and the restructuring of the labor market
AdH43: In the right field! Methodological challenges and methodological strategies in interview-based and ethnographic research on the Far Right
AdH44: In Transition: Trans*gender physicalities in a social context
AdH47: Bodies and Things: Transitions of Material Sociality
AdH57: Rental sharks to fish sticks - The politicization of housing market players as transition markers?
AdH66: Progressive social movements and religion: current transitions
AdH68: Quo vadis fixed-term contracts in science? Historical contingencies, structural factors, organizational interests and professional perspectives
AdH69: Quo vadis East Germany (research)? Perspectives on persistence and dynamics in dealing with social change in East Germany
AdH82: Theory-empiricism relationships in transitive times? On the resilience of “theoretical empiricism”
AdH83: Transition in the arts: transitions, change and upheavals in the field of art
AdH88: Transitions in the field of tension between the labor market, social policy and migrant practices
AdH89: Transitions in helping relationships: Power, conflicts and negotiations in health care and support
AdH90: Transitions on Rewind: Video analyses of transition phenomena
AdH92: Transitions of the city, conflict and political violence
AdH95: Transitions and trajectories of young refugees in the German education system
AdH96: Transitions, thresholds, origins and dis/continuities: thinking transitions with Michel Foucault
AdH98: Change pioneers and change exhausters. On the sociology of the perception of social change.
Sek4: Section Sociology of Labor and Industry: " The sociology of work in troubled times "
Sek54: Section Sociological Network Research: "Current contributions to the survey and analysis of social networks"
Sek59: Section Environmental and Sustainability Sociology: "Building agency in the climate transformation - Building agency in the climate transformation"
Sek60: Economic sociology: "Current economic sociology"
SV4: Digitalization and professional transitions in sociology
12:00pm
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2:00pm
Closing event

 
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