Dr.Sören Olav Carlson

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Contact

Phone
+49 461 805 2350
Fax
+49 461 805 2460
E-mail
soeren.carlson-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@uni-flensburg.de
Building
Gebäude Tallinn 1
Room
TAL 310
Street
Auf dem Campus 1b
Post code / City
24943 Flensburg

Institutions

Name
Seminar für Soziologie
Position
Research Associate

Consultation hours

In the autumn term 2024/25, only by appointment. To make an appointment, please contact me by email.

Lectures

No Title Type Semester
2233131l Research seminar: European identity formation through education? Seminar Autumn semester 2024
5310s25l Lehrforschungsseminar Qualtitative Research Project Seminar Autumn semester 2024
5310s23l Lehrforschungsseminar qualitativ und qualitativ Seminar Autumn semester 2024

Professional career

Since 04.2017 Research associate, Department of Sociology, Europa-Universität Flensburg
04.2016 - 01.2017 Research associate, Department of Sociology, Europa-Universität Flensburg
10.2011 – 03.2016 Research associate, DFG Project "Transnational human capital and social inequality", Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
10.2009 – 03.2010 Research assistant, Chair of General Sociology, Universität Potsdam

Academic career

09.2022 – 03.2023 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
02.2020 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
09.2017 Doctorate in sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
09.2010 – 12.2010 Visiting Research Fellow, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
10.2007 – 06.2011 Doctoral and teaching grant, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10.2006 Diploma in social sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Monographs

Börner, Stefanie/Carlson, Sören (2023): Europasoziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2017): Social Class and Transnational Human Capital. How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization. Abingdon: Routledge.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2016): Klassenlage und transnationales Humankapital. Wie Eltern der mittleren und oberen Klassen ihre Kinder auf die Globalisierung vorbereiten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Editorships

Carlson, Sören/Barglowski, Karolina (eds.) (2024): Transnational class formation: Identities, practices and symbolic classifications. Special theme. Global Networks 24 (3).

Lueg, Klarissa/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2020): Narrative and Europeanization. Special issue. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE) 5 (1).

Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2018): Education, Europeanization and Europe's Social Integration. Special issue. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4).

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2014): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Carlson, Sören/Barglowski, Karolina (2024): Theorizing transnational class formation: Novel approaches to the study of transnational inequalities and class-making. Global Networks 24 (3): e12491.

Carlson, Sören/Schneickert, Christian (2021): Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields. The Sociological Review 69 (5): 1124–1140.

Lueg, Klarissa/Carlson, Sören (2020): Narrative and Europeanization: bringing together two processual notions. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE). 5 (1): 1–15.

Carlson, Sören (2018): Intra-European mobility and the formation of a European society? German mobile graduates’ early careers in trans-/national professional fields. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4): 464–483.

Carlson, Sören/Eigmüller, Monika/Lueg, Klarissa (2018): Education, Europeanization and Europe’s social integration. An introduction. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4): 395–405.

Carlson, Sören/Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke (2017): Educating Children in Times of Globalisation: Class-specific Child-rearing Practices and the Acquisition of Transnational Cultural Capital. Sociology 51 (4): 749–765.

Carlson, Sören/Kahle, Lena/Klinge, Denise (2017): Wenn Narrationen nicht zustande kommen… Wie hochreflexive Berufsfelder dazu beitragen, dass argumentativ-evaluative Darstellungsweisen im narrativen Interview dominant werden. Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung (ZQF) 18 (2): 239–262.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören/Drewski, Daniel (2017): The Globalisation of Labour Markets: A Content Analysis of the Demand for Transnational Human Capital in Job Advertisements. Soziale Welt 68 (1): 25–44.

Carlson, Sören (2013): Becoming a Mobile Student – a Processual Perspective on German Degree Student Mobility. Population, Space and Place 19 (2): 168–180.

Articles in edited volumes

Klinge, Denise/Carlson, Sören/Kahle, Lena (2021): Countering the master-narrative of "good parenting"? Non-academic parents’ stories about choosing a secondary school for their child. In: Lueg, Klarissa/Lundholt, Marianne Wolff (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. Abingdon: Routledge, 225–237.

Carlson, Sören/Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke (2014): Klassenunterschiede im Zugang zu transnationalem Humankapital. Eine qualitative Studie zu schulischen Auslandsaufenthalten. In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 127–152.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Transnationales Humankapital, Reprivatisierung der Ausbildung und neue soziale Ungleichheiten. In: Löw, M. (ed.): Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 385–399.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Transnationales Humankapital. Einleitende Bemerkungen zu Kontextbedingungen, Erwerb und Verwertbarkeit von transnationalen Kompetenzen. In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 7–19.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Die Renditen von transnationalem Humankapital: Das Beispiel "Partizipation an einer transnationalen europäischen Öffentlichkeit". In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenz­überschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 259–293.

Carlson, Sören (2011): How to explain the transnational occupational mobility of former international students? Suggestions for a change in research and theoretical perspectives. In: Dervin, F. (ed.): Analysing the consequences of academic mobility and migration. Newcastle: CSP, 115–129.

Working Papers

Lomer, Sylvie/Budginaitė-Mačkinė, Irma/Carlson, Sören/Klasik, Daniel/Bamberger, Annette et al. (2024): Social inequalities in international student mobility: a systematic literature review. Centre for Global Higher Education Working Papers Series, No. 117. Oxford: University of Oxford, Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE).

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören/Drewski, Daniel (2015): Die Globalisierung des Arbeitsmarktes: Die Veränderung der Nachfrage nach transnationalem Humankapital im Zeitverlauf (1960‐2014) und im Ländervergleich auf der Grundlage einer Analyse von Stellenanzeigen. BSSE Arbeitspapier Nr. 35. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.

Carlson, Sören (2011): Just a matter of choice? Student mobility as a social and biographical process. SCMR-Working Paper No. 68. University of Sussex: Sussex Centre for Migration Research.

Miscellanea

Eder, Klaus/Carlson, Sören (2020): Europe as a narrative laboratory. Klaus Eder on European identity, populist stories and the acid bath of irony. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE) 5 (1): 102–117.

Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Bericht aus der Sektion Europasoziologie zur Tagung "Research into Europeanization – European Encounters, Politics, and Higher Education". Soziologie. Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 46 (2): 205-207.

Lueg, Klarissa/Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Europeanization and Higher Education. On the relevance of a Europe-oriented perspective on higher education processes. Internationalisierung, Vielfalt und Inklusion in der Wissenschaft (IVI) 2: 29-30.

Carlson, Sören (2012): Buchrezension: N. Schneider/B. Collet (eds.): Mobile Living Across Europe II: Causes and Consequences of Job-Related Spatial Mobility in Cross-National Comparison. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 2010. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38 (10): 1698-1699.

degree mobile students’ biographical trajectories", IMISCOE-Workshop "International Student Mobility", University of Sussex, GB, 05.2011

Others

Eder, Klaus/Carlson, Sören (2020): Europe as a narrative laboratory. Klaus Eder on European identity, populist stories and the acid bath of irony. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE) 5 (1): 102–117.

Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Report on the conference "Research into Europeanization – European Encounters, Politics, and Higher Education". Sociology. Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 46 (2): 205-207.

Lueg, Klarissa/Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Europeanization and Higher Education. On the relevance of a Europe-oriented perspective on higher education processes. Internationalisierung, Vielfalt und Inklusion in der Wissenschaft (IVI) 2: 29-30.

Carlson, Sören (2012): Book review: N. Schneider/B. Collet (Hrsg.): Mobile Living Across Europe II: Causes and Consequences of Job-Related Spatial Mobility in Cross-National Comparison. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 2010. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38 (10): 1698-1699.

Selected presentations since 2020

2024

  • Symbolische Grenzen und Klassenbildung in transnationalisierten Kontexten am Beispiel einer qualitativen Studie zu Tech Professionals in Dublin. Sektionenkonferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Osnabrück, 09/2024

  • European social classes in the making? A historical-sociological view on class formation processes. Interdisciplinary Conference on European Advanced Studies (IDEAS 2024), Bruxelles, 05/2024

2023

  • Transnational class-making? Symbolic boundaries among Dublin’s tech professionals. Université du Luxembourg, 11/2023

  • Symbolische Grenzziehungen von Tech Professionals in Dublin. Zur Herstellung von Klassenzugehörigkeiten in transnationalisierten Kontexten. Jahrestagung der Sektion Kultursoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Weimar, 09/2023

2022

  • Symbolic boundaries and class-making among tech professionals in Dublin. Research Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 11/2022

  • Does Europeanization lead to transnational class formation? A historical-sociological perspective. 28th Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Lisbon, 06/2022

  • Schooling and the education divide in European identity. Reconsidering current theorizing on this cleavage. 28th Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Lisbon, 06/2022

  • UK-German Frontiers of Research Symposium on Mobilities. British Academy and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, 05/2022

2021

  • Transnational class formation: Concepts and issues in studying transnational class-making (with K. Barglowski). Workshop "Transnational class formation in Europe and beyond", Dortmund, 06/2021

  • Transnationale Klassenbildung in Europa? Eine historisch-soziologische Perspektive. Tagung der Sektion Europasoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Magdeburg, 03/2021

2020        

  • Symbolische Grenzen und die Konstruktion hochqualifizierter Migrant*innen als Gruppe. Eine qualitative Analyse anhand des Berliner Stadtmagazins Exberliner. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Berlin, 09/2020

  • Transnational professional mobility and the emergence of a European society. Research Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 02/2020

  • Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the DGS Section "Sociology of Europe"
  • Board member of the Section "Sociology of Europe" within the German Sociological Association (DGS) (since 11/2020)
  • Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) (since 01/2023)
  • Member of the editorial boards of Sociology and The Sociological Review (since 01/2023)
  • Member of the EU COST Action CA20115 European network on international student mobility: Connecting research and practice (ENIS), Working Group 2 "Social inequalities in access to and during ISM"
  • Alternate member of the ethics commission, Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF) (since 11/2023)

Research themes

  • Education
  • Europeanisation
  • Qualitative Social Research
  • Social inequality
  • Transnational Mobility/Migration
  • Transnationalisation