Chair of Sociology of Markets, Organizations and Governance

Welcome to the Chair of Sociology with a focus on Markets, Organisations and Governance!

On these pages you can find out more about us and our work, research projects and courses, publications and events. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The Chair researches and teaches primarily on the topics of sustainability and organisations, especially cultural organisations, as well as the Holocaust and violence. We focus in particular on the research question of how social spaces that are less institutionalised are shaped, such as newly established cultural organisations like the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, or concentration camps and Jews' houses during the National Socialist era.

In teaching, we offer Bachelor's and Master's courses, particularly in the areas of organisational sociology, economic sociology and cultural sociology. If you would like to write your Bachelor's or Master's Thesis in these subject fields, please contact us.

Please note: our Administrative Assistant is currently unstaffed. Therefore, please contact us directly at stefanie.hiss@uni-jena.de and elisabeth.poenisch@uni-jena.de.

With best regards

Stefanie Hiß and Elisabeth Pönisch