3 Questions for Fabrizio Bernardi
How did you get into Sociology? I received my bachelor’s degree in social statistics and demography. My original intention was to study historical demography, or history in general - at…
3 Questions for Heike Solga
How did you get into Sociology? For a better understanding of the following, it is important to know that I was born, went to school and graduated in East Germany…
Sociological Trivia…
... this quote is taken from an interview with Marie Jahoda, who is probably best known in Sociology for her engagement of the famous ‘Marienthal Study’. For years Jahoda, her…
3 Questions for Randall Collins
How did you get into Sociology? When I went to Harvard University in 1959-63, I found all sorts of courses that did not exist in secondary school: philosophy, psychology, anthropology,…
Sociological Trivia 100,000 citations
In his empirical study “Star Sociologists” (Korom 2023), Philipp Korom deals with the quote-on-quote “elite of sociology.” One of these kinds is the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whom Korom determines…
3 Questions for Sari Hanafi
How did you get into Sociology? I grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp haunted by a duality: oppressive Israeli colonial practices and authoritarianism in Syria. I had first enrolled in Damascus University studying…
Interview with Martin Kohli
"Sociology needs more self-confidence as a discipline and should be perceived as such by the public: as a discipline worthy of awards - a discipline that produces excellent science that…
3 Questions for Marta Tienda
How did you get into Sociology? My pathway to sociology was serendipitous, the result of a summer internship in Alpena, Michigan between my junior and senior year. Until that pivotal experience,…
Cooperation Agreement Signed with EUI
The EUI and Kohli Foundation have partnered up to promote and implement collaborative initiatives and activities in regard to sociological knowledge and to the discipline of sociology and related research.…