Prof. Dr. Angelika Poferl

Angelika Poferl's areas of teaching and research include general sociology, theories of modernity and globalisation, sociology of knowledge, cultural sociology, sociology of human rights, gender studies, microsociology, qualitative and interpretive social research. Her current research interests refer to the theory of reflexive modernisation, plural modernities, and the concept of a cosmopolitics of the social, knowledge cultures, human rights/human dignity, gender and nature, globality/locality, social inequalities and cultural differences. After graduating in sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, she worked as a researcher in the Munich Project Group for Social Research from 1989 to 1996. From 1996 to 2004 she was assistant to Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She received her doctorate under Prof. Dr. Christoph Lau at the University of Augsburg, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, in 2002, and was assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich from 2005/2006 to 2010 (evaluation 2009). In 2010, she was appointed professor of sociology and globalisation at the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda. Since 2016 she has held the Chair of General Sociology at the TU Dortmund University.

She is married and mother of two adult daughters.

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