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.…
3 Questions for Sawako Shirahase
How did you get into Sociology? I took my first sociology class when I was an undergraduate at the liberal arts college in Kyoto, Japan. In this class, the concept…
Sociological Trivia…
…is one of the most famous quotes by sociologist C. Wright Mills. His book “Sociological Imagination” counts among the most influential books in sociology and is frequently assigned as reading…
3 Questions for Martin Kohli
How did you get into sociology? Sociology was the most innovative field for those interested in society, and more generally, in the life of the mind – the antithesis to…