{"id":2602,"date":"2024-12-06T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/person\/prof-dr-stephan-lessenich\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:20:29","slug":"prof-dr-stephan-lessenich","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/person\/prof-dr-stephan-lessenich\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short CV<\/h2>\n\n<p>Stephan Lessenich has been a Professor for Social Theory and Sociology at Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt since 2021 and is the director of the Institute for Social Research. Before, he held the Chair of Comparative Social and Cultural Analysis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2004-2014) and the Chair of Sociology with a focus on Social Developments and Structures at Ludwig Maximilians Universit\u00e4t Munich (2014\u20132021). <\/p>\n\n<p>Lessenich completed his doctorate at the University of Bremen (1993) on welfare states and labor markets, and his habilitation at the University of G\u00f6ttingen (2002) focused on the continuity and change in the German social model. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research focus<\/h2>\n\n<p>Stephan Lessenich&#8217;s research focuses on critical social theories, political sociology of social inequality, welfare state theory, and critical capitalism analyses. He also examines the challenges of a socio-ecological transformation of late-modern societies.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent projects<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMarginalisierungerfahrungen und Zusammenhaltserwartungen: Sozialr\u00e4umliche Perspektiven\u201d 2024\u20132027 (BMBF), Research Institute for Societal Cohesion in collaboration with Jonas Rees, Yann Rees, and Andreas Zick: This project investigates experiences of marginalization and expectations of social cohesion from a socio-spatial perspective, with a focus on the dynamics shaping social cohesion in different societal contexts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cZeitarbeitsfirmen im Wandel zur Besch\u00e4ftigungsindustrie?\u201d 2020\u20132022, (Hans-B\u00f6ckler Foundation), in collaboration with with Hans Pongratz: This project explored the transformation of temporary employment agencies into permanent employment industries and analyzed changes in the employment structures within this sector.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPraktiken der Solidarit\u00e4t. Strukturen und Dynamiken transnationaler Solidarit\u00e4t im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert\u201d 2018\u20132021 (BMBF), in collaboration with Dietmar S\u00fc\u00df and Michael Reder: This project examined the evolution and dynamics of transnational solidarity practices, considering historical and contemporary forms of cross-border cooperation and mutual support.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short CV Stephan Lessenich has been a Professor for Social Theory and Sociology at Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt since 2021 and is the director of the Institute for Social Research. Before, he held the Chair of Comparative Social and Cultural Analysis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2004-2014) and the Chair of Sociology with a focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3130,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"person_category":[116],"class_list":["post-2602","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-academic-board"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}