Research
Sociology of Being Alone (Professorship for Sociology with a Focus on Family and Youth Sociology, since 2024)
Project development, realization and lead: Dr. Sarah M眉hlbacher
Destructiveness in Contemporary Authoritarianism. Authoritarian Syndromes Revisited in the Context of Digital Media (Institute for Social Research and Sigmund-Freud-Institute Frankfurt am Main, funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG, 2023鈥�2026) [Website under construction]
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Vera King, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project staff: Adrian Otto, M.A., Lisa Pfeifer, M.A.
Resisting: Attempts at a Right Life in the Wrong One (Professorship with support from the Board at the Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, 2021鈥�2025)
Project design: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
The Order of Inequality: An Ethnography of Melilla (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, funded by the Cusanuswerk, 2021鈥�2024)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Alexander Kern, M.A.
Romanian Migrant Workers in the German Construction Industry: A Study Based on Social Classifications Theory (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, 2021鈥�2024)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Christian Sperneac-Wolfer, M.A.
Religious and Non-Religious Modes of Coping with Contingency in an Individualised Society (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, 2020鈥�2024)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Projekt execution: Nanthiny Rajamannan, M.A.
Escaping Freedom: The Path of Young Men into Jihadism (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, 2018鈥�2023)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Felix Ro脽mei脽l, M.A.
Religious Anti-Capitalism? A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Positions (LOEWE: Scientific and Economic Excellence in Hesse, research focus "Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Contexts", 2017鈥�2021)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Dr. Claudia Willms, Christian Sperneac-Wolfer, M.A.
Social Structures of Bronze Age Societies (LOEWE: Scientific and Economic Excellence in Hesse, research focus "Prehistoric Conflict Research: Bronze Age Hillforts between Taunus and Carpathian Mountains", 2016鈥�2019)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: PD Dr. Matthias Jung, Dr. Andy Reimann
Paradoxes of Child Welfare (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, research group "Types of Negotiation on Normative Paradoxes", funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, 2015鈥�2019)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Sarah M眉hlbacher, M.A., Christian Zeller, M.A.
Religious Ideas and Social Action: Christian Narratives of Justification between Social Criticism and Belief in Legitimacy (Institute for Social Research and Cluster of Excellence "Normative Orders" Frankfurt am Main, 2010鈥�2012)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Project execution: Thomas Kuhn, M.A.
Negative Classifications: Ideologies of Inequality in the Symbolic Orders of Urban Groups (Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2002鈥�2005)
Project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel
Project execution: Dr. Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty
Careers of Violence: Youths in a Cycle of Violence and Disrespect (Free University of Berlin, supported by a doctoral scholarship of the Berlin universities' NaF枚G commission, 1996鈥�2000; Dissertation Award of the German Sociological Association, 2002)
Project development and realization: Ferdinand Sutterl眉ty, Dipl.-Soz.
PhD supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans Joas, Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli