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Dr. Georg Lorenz

Dr. Georg Lorenz

Research Fellow

Institute of Sociology
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 3113
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-35643
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Abstract

Since 2022, Georg Lorenz leads the DFG-funded research project SERIOUS (link to project website: https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-soziologie/bereiche/projekt-serious) at the Department of Sociology. Additionally, Georg Lorenz is a research group leader at University of Potsdam. The BMBF-funded research group MuHiK studies multidimensional diversity in schools.

His research interests include discrimination, the emergence and societal effects of social networks, inequality (with a focus on education), and social cohesion. Georg Lorenz offers Bachelor courses dealing with social capital, social influence, cohesion, and methods for social network analysis.


Professional career

  • since 04/2022
    Research Group Leader, Department of Sociology, Leipzig University, Germany
  • since 04/2023
    Research Group Leader, Education Department, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • 07/2017 - 03/2023
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen (IQB), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • 04/2016 - 06/2017
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • 10/2015 - 03/2016
    Parental leave
  • 10/2010 - 09/2015
    Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology, especially Analysis of Social Structures, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany
  • 05/2009 - 09/2010
    Research Associate in the Free Floater Junior Research Group „Ethnic Educational Inequality“ (established as part of the German Initiative of Excellence and headed by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen), Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany

Inequality

  • Ethnic minorities
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Education
  • Tracking


Social networks

  • Ethnic and socioeconomic segregation
  • Social influence
  • Stochastic Actor Oriented Model (SAOM)
  • Network effects on inequality


Social cohesion

  • Adolesence and schools
  • Diversity
  • Discrimination



  • Social Embeddedness in Social Networks and the Reproduction of Socioeconomic Inequality in Educational Attainments (SERIOUS)
    Lorenz, Georg
    Duration: 04/2022 – 03/2025
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Soziologie
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more projects

  • Lorenz, G.; Kogan, I.; Gentrup, S.; Kristen, C.
    Non-native Accents among School Beginners and Teacher Expectations for Future Student Achievements
    Sociology of Education. 2023.
    DOI: 10.1177/00380407231202978
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  • Boda, Z.; Lorenz, G.; Jansen, M.; Stanat, P.; Edele, A.
    Ethnic diversity fosters the social integration of refugee students
    Nature Human Behaviour. 2023. pp. 881–891.
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01577-x
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  • Lorenz, G.; Lenz, S.; Rjosk, C.
    Effizienz und soziale Ungleichheit in strikt leistungsdifferenzierenden Bildungssystemen. Eine kritische Betrachtung des Model of Ability Tracking (MoAbiT)
    Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 2023.
    DOI: 10.1515/zfsoz-2023-2028
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  • Lorenz, G.; Salikutluk, Z.; Boda, Z.; Jansen, M.; Hewstone, M.
    The Link between Social and Structural Integration: Co- and Interethnic Friendship Selection and Friend Influence within Adolescent Social Networks
    Sociological Science. 2021. 8 (19).
    DOI: 10.15195/v8.a19
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  • Lorenz, G.; Boda, Z.; Salikutluk, Z.
    Oppositional Culture Revisited. Friendship Dynamics and the Creation of Social Capital among Turkish Minority Adolescents in Germany
    Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2021. 47 (17).
    DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1898354
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more publications

  • Introduction to Social Network Analysis with R

    Seminar Bachelor-level, Winter 2023/24, Leipzig University

  • The social embeddedness of human action: Social networks, social norms, and the (re-)creation of social structure

    Seminar Bachelor-level, Winter 2022/23, Leipzig University


  • Causes of segregation in the school context and consequences for ethnic inequality

    Seminar Master-level, Summer 2019, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg

     

  • Direct and indirect discrimination against immigrant children

    Seminar Master-level, Winter 2011/12, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg 

  • Immigration and integration in Germany

    Seminar Bachelor-level, Winter 2011/12, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg 

  • Teacher expectations and consequences for social, ethnic, educational Iinequalities as well as gender inequalities

    Seminar Master-level, Summer 2011, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg 

  • School success of immigrant children: The role of teachers

    Seminar Bachelor-level, Summer 2011, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg 

  • Immigration to Germany and consequences for educational integration

    Seminar Master-level, Winter 2010/11, Otto Friedrich-University of Bamberg