A total of around 3000 students study in the core and subsidiary subjects of the faculty and in the structured doctoral training.
The Faculty of Sociology is one of the largest social science research and teaching institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and in Europe. The faculty unites a plurality of subjects under its roof. In addition to general sociology and several special sociologies, political science and social anthropology as well as social science (as an interdisciplinary combination of sociology, political science and economics) are represented in teaching and research at the Faculty of Sociology. The faculty celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019 as one of the three founding faculties of Bielefeld University.
Für das Forschungsprojekt Bots Building Bridges (Leitung: Prof. Elena
Esposito), in dessen Rahmen Polarisierungs- und Konfliktdynamiken in
Sozialen Medien untersucht werden, wird
zum 1. November 2022 eine Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (WHF) gesucht.