Fields of Specialization
- Social Stratification
- Welfare State
- Cultural Consumption
- Political Sociology
- Quantitative Methods
Curriculum Vitae
| since 07/2019 | Assistant Lecturer, JGU Mainz |
| since 05/2019 | Federal Statistical Office of Germany |
| 03/2021 | Ph.D (Dr. phil). Dissertation thesis: The Independent Variable Problem. Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept (Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte (Mainz), Prof. Dr. Patrick Sachweh (Bremen), Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow (Frankfurt)) |
| 04/2014-07/2019 | Research Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Institute of Sociology (Chair: Professor Dr. Otte (Social Stratification) |
| 08/2018 | Visiting researcher at → The Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm (funded by InGRID-2 visiting grant) |
| 04/2017-04/2019 | Junior Member of the → Gutenberg Academy |
| 2011 – 2014 | Master Studies in Social Sciences at the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf. Topic of the Master’s Thesis: „Gourmet or Gourmand?“ An Empirical Debate on Cultural Consumption and Social Distinction in Europe.” (with Debora Eicher). |
| 2008 – 2011 | Bachelor Studies in Social Sciences at the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf. Topic of the Bachelor’s Thesis: “Differences in Individual Attitudes towards European Integration in the Context of Socio-Economic Status of the Country of Origin”. |
| Academic Studies in the study subjects Sociology, Political Sciences and Communication and Media Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf and the Karls-University in Prague/Czech Republic. |
Publications
Contributions to journals
Otte, Gunnar/ Boehle, Mara/ Kunißen, Katharina (2021): Social Inequalities - Empirical Focus. In: Soziologische Revue, Special Issue 2020 ("Soziologie – Sociology in the German-Speaking World"): 361-380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627275-025 .
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Kunißen, Katharina (2019): From Dependent to Independent Variable: A Critical Assessment of Operationalisations of ‘Welfare Stateness’ as Macro-Level Indicators in Multilevel Analyses. Social Indicators Research 142(2): 597-616. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1930-3.
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Contributions to edited volumes
Eicher, Debora/ Kunißen, Katharina (2018): Bizet, Bach und Beyoncé. Hochkulturelle Musik in grenzüberschreitenden Geschmackskombinationen. In: Reuband, Karl-Heinz (Hrsg.): Oper, Publikum und Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 119-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12926-2_5.
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Kunißen, Katharina/ Eicher, Debora/ Otte, Gunnar (2018): Sozialer Status und kultureller Geschmack: Ein methodenkritischer Vergleich empirischer Überprüfungen der Omnivore-Univore These. In: Böcker, Julia/ Dreier, Lena/ Eulitz, Melanie/ Jakob, Maria/ Leistner, Alexander (Hrsg.): Zum Verhältnis von Empirie und kultursoziologischer Theoriebildung. Stand und Perspektiven. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 209-235.
Eicher, Debora/ Kalcher, Julian/ Kunißen, Katharina (2015): In Vielfalt geeint? Zum Einfluss individueller Werteprioritäten und nationaler Kontexte auf den Transfer von Vertrauen auf das Europäische Parlament. In: Scholz, Simon/ Dütsch, Julian (Hrsg.): Krisen, Prozesse, Potenziale. Beiträge zum 4. Studentischen Soziologiekongress. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 319-346.
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Other publications
Breznau, Nate/ Rinke, Eike/ Wuttke, Alexander et al. (2021). Observing Many Researchers using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Data Analysis. Preprint. DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/cd5j9
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Breznau, Nate/ Rinke, Eike/ Wuttke, Alexander et al. (2019). The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences. Preprint. doi: https://10.31235/osf.io/6j9qb
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Presentations at Scientific Congresses and Conferences
| 2018 | „A critical review of operationalisations of ‘welfare stateness’ as macro-level indicators in multilevel analyses". ISA RC28 Spring Meeting. Seoul, May 2018. |
| 2017 | "Cultural consumption as explanatory concept? Unravelling the link between cultural intolerance and the fear of foreigners". 7th conference of the European Survey Research Association. Lissabon, July 2017 (with Debora Eicher, Matthias Lehmann and Katharina Kunißen). |
| 2016 | "Wie erklärungskräftig ist Bourdieus Modell des sozialen Raumes? Eine Konfrontation mit alternativen Ansätzen am Beispiel politischer Positionierungen“. Workshop FDZ ALLBUS. Köln, October 2016 (with Gunnar Otte). |
| Ad-hoc-Group: "Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit als Erklärungskonzept in der ländervergleichenden Analyse sozialer Ungleichheiten: Konzeption, Messung und Befund“. 38th congress of the German Sociological Association. Bamberg, September 2016 (with Gunnar Otte). |
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| "Sozialer Raum und politische Positionierungen. Wie erklärungskräftig ist Bourdieus Sozialraummodell im Vergleich mit alternativen Ansätzen?“. 38th congress of the German Sociological Association. Bamberg, September 2016 (with Gunnar Otte). | |
| “Changing structures of cultural taste? A critical assessment of international research on the omnivore-univore thesis”. ISA RC28 summer meeting. Bern, August 2016 (with Gunnar Otte, Debora Eicher and David Binder). | |
| "Where typologies reach their limit: A critical discussion about operationalizing welfare policies as independent variables“. ECPR Graduate Student Conference. Tartu, July 2016. | |
| "Zur sozialen Strukturierung kulturellen Geschmacks. Eine Systematisierung theoretischer und empirischer Zugänge zur Omnivore-Univore-These“. Meeting of the DGS section Social Inequality and Social Stratification. Mainz, February 2016 (with David Binder, Debora Eicher and Gunnar Otte). | |
| 2015 | "Gibt es eine Transformation des kulturellen Geschmacks? Eine kritische Bilanz der internationalen Forschung zur Omnivore-Univore-These“. Meeting of the DGS section Sociology of Culture. Leipzig, October 2015 (with David Binder, Debora Eicher and Gunnar Otte). |
| "Explanations for the transfer of trust to the EU level: A multilevel approach”. 12th conference of the European Sociological Association. Prag, August 2015 (with Debora Eicher). | |
| 2014 | "Das Zusammenspiel von Religiosität und Wertorientierungen bei der Erklärung von Vorurteilen gegenüber Homosexuellen“. 5th meeting of the AqR. Leipzig, June 2014 (with Debora Eicher, Mira Hassan, Pascal Siegers and Anne-Katrin Henseler). |
| 2013 | "In Vielfalt geeint? – Zum Einfluss von individuellen Werteprioritäten und nationalem Kontext auf den Transfer von Vertrauen auf das Europäische Parlament”. 4th student congress of the German Sociological Association. Bamberg, October 2013 (with Debora Eicher and Julian Kalcher). |
| "How the joint effect of religion and value orientations determines prejudice towards homosexuals”. 26th international meeting of the FFP. Bremen, June 2013 (with Tilo Beckers, Debora Eicher, Mira Hassan, Anne-Kathrin Henseler and Pascal Siegers). |