Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer

Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (* 1954 in Munich ) is a German sociologist .

Ludwig-Mayerhofer studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Munich from 1973 to 1979 (degree: Dipl.-Sociologist) and received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Bielefeld .

He completed his habilitation there in 1997 in sociology. From 1999 to 2003 (from 2001 as professor) he taught at the University of Leipzig . Since 2003 he has held the professorship for empirical social research at the University of Siegen .

His areas of work are: educational sociology , social policy , methods of empirical social research, family sociology and legal sociology .

Fonts (selection)

The criminal law and its administrative simplification. Criticism of the informal judiciary . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-36119-1 (also habilitation thesis, Bielefeld University, 1997).
Editor: Social Inequality, Crime and Criminalization . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2472-4 .
Editor with Jutta Allmendinger : Sociology of the welfare state. Social basics, historical connections and current development trends . Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7799-1466-2 .
Editor with Eva Barlösius : The poverty of society . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-2856-8 .
Editor: Understanding of cases and power of interpretation. Actors in social administration and their clients . Budrich, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2007, ISBN 978-3-86649-117-5 .
With Olaf Behrend and Ariadne Sondermann: In search of lost work. Unemployed people and employment agencies in the new labor market regime. UVK, Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-86764-155-5 .