Mathias Bös (sociologist)

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Mathias Bös (* 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German sociologist and professor of applied and theoretical sociology.

academic career

Bös studied sociology, political science and statistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1982 to 1989 . From 1990 to 1995 he worked at the same university as a research assistant in the social sciences department. In 1996 he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and then worked until 2003 as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

In 1998 and 1999 he was a fellow at the "Center for European Studies" at Harvard University , in 2001 he was a fellow at the "German American Center for Visiting Scholars" in Washington, DC. In 2003 he received his habilitation in Heidelberg, one year later he was appointed professor for applied sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg. From 2008 to 2012 he was managing director of the Center for Conflict Research at the Philipps University of Marburg.

Mathias Bös has been Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover since 2013 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Migration as a Problem of Open Societies: Globalization and Social Change in Western Europe and North America . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-8100-1697-7 .
  • Race and ethnicity. On the problem history of two terms in American sociology . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14552-5 .
  • Theories of ethnicity. A social science introduction with sources , Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2008, ISBN 3-531-14904-0 .
  • Edited with Lance Roberts, Barry Ferguson, Susanne Von Below: Multicultural Variations. Social Incorporation in Europe and North America , McGill Queens University Press 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover