Frank Sowa

Nürnberg Area, Germany Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow (Sociology)

Education

I am sociologist specialized in qualitative and ethnographic methods. My main research interests deal with studies in sociology of labour and studies in cultural sociology. My past experiences as researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Institute for Employment Research (IAB) has drawn my interest in atypical employment and self-employment in post-industrial societies as well as organizational ethnography of public employment services, trends of globalisation of social policy and New Public Management. In my PhD-thesis, which was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), I analysed the institutionalization of ecological...