► Dr. Nicolas Legewie is substituting the professorship for Methods and Social Structure Analysis (formerly: Prof. Dr. Weischer) in the winter semester 23/24.

 

Dr. Nicolas Legewie

Dr. Nicolas Legewie

Scharnhorststr. 121
48151 Münster

  • Research Foci

    • Social inequalities
    • Education
    • Migration & Integration
    • Social networks
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Research methods, especially Video Data Analysis

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Master in social science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Positions

    Interim professor of methods and social inequality, University Münster.
    Academic partner (postdoc) and lecturer at Faculty of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt.
    Visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology of University of Pennsylvania.
    Deputy principal investigator (postdoc) at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin): „Mentoring of Refugees (MORE)“ (Prof. Martin Kroh, German Institute for Economic Research). Funding: Leibniz-Competition.
    Postdoctoral researcher at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin): „Das Erwachsenwerden türkischer Migrantennachkommen:Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie auf Basis des SOEP“. German Institute for Economic Research
    Visiting fellow at Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
    PhD Student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Excellence Initiative of the German Research Society), Humboldt-University of Berlin.
    Visiting fellow at theInstitute of Soziology at the Columbia University, New York (USA).
    Visiting fellow at Columbia University, New York (USA)

  • Teaching

    • Vorlesung: Statistics I [066494]
    • Vorlesung: Tutories of Statistics II [066506]
    • Seminar: Big Data and Social Mobility [066503]
    • Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: A Sociological Perspective [066504]
    • Seminar: Introduction to R for Statistical Data Analysis in Social Inequalities [066505]
    • Kolloquium: Colloquium Research Methods [066502]
    • Vorlesung: Statistics I [064465]
    • Vorlesung: Research Methods I [064466]
    • Seminar: Digital Social Science Research [064497]
    • Kolloquium: Colloquium. Social science methods in practice: advice for empirical theses [064496]

  • Projects

    • Discrimination in everyday interactions – A field-experimental study using computer vision. ( – )
      Project Carried out outside the University Münster
    • A mixed-methods study of rampage school shootings ( – )
      Project Carried out outside the University Münster
    • Attitudes toward the use of Artificual Intelligence in public institutions. ( – )
      Project Carried out outside the University Münster

  • Publications

    • , and . . “"The Present and Future of Video-based Social Science Research." Co-Herausgeber Sonderheft.” Sociological Methods and Research, № 52 (3)
    • , and . . “Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis.” Sociological Methods and Research, № 52 (3)
    • , and . . “3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision.” Sociological Methods and Research, № 52 (3)

    Articles
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , , and . . “Mentoring as a Grass Roots Effort For Integrating Refugees – Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, № 48 (17)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” in Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, edited by Nina Baur and Jörg Blasius. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
    Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • , and . . “Video Data Analysis: How 21st century video data reshapes social science research.”

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • . . “Upward Mobility in Education – The Role of Personal Networks Across the Life Course.” Social Inclusion, № 9 (4)
    • , and . . “Video Data Analysis: A Methodological Framework for a Novel Research Trend.” Sociological Methods and Research, № 50 (1)
    • , and . . “Turning Points in Labour Market Trajectories – A Panel-based Mixed Methods Analysis.” Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, № 12 (1)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Digital Family Research.” in Handbook of the Sociology of the Family, edited by Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • . . “Patenschaften zwischen Geflüchteten und Einheimischen – Determinanten von Zufriedenheit in der Tandembeziehung.” in Engagement für Integration und Teilhabe, edited by Frank Gesemann and Iris Nentwig_Gesemann. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Articles
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , and . . “Methodologische Entwicklungen in der Gewaltforschung: Videodatenanalyse, Mixed Methods und Big Data.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, № 45 (1)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • , and . . “Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming.” in Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming, edited by Shing-Ling Chen, Zhoujun J. Chen and Nicole Allaire. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
    • , , and . . “Labor market participation of refugees in Germany: Legal context and individual-level factors.” in Refugees in Canada and Germany: Responses in policy and practice, edited by Annette Korntheuer, Debora B. Maehler, Pritchard Paul and Lori Wilkinson. Köln/Mannheim: Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.
    Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • , , , , and . . “Mentorenprogramme fördern die Integration von Geflüchteten.” DIW Wochenbericht 10(49
    • , and . . “How COVID-19 could help social science researchers.”

    Articles
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , and . . “Analyzing 21st Century Video Data on Situational Dynamics – Key Issues and Challenges.” Social sciences, № 8 (3)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” in Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, edited by Nina Baur and Jörg Blasius. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
    Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • , , and . . “Potentiale der Analyse Visueller Daten im 21. Jahrhundert. Bericht zum Blankensee-Colloquium 2019 zur Erfassung und Analyse Sozialen Wandels.”
    • , , , and . . “Integrating Randomized Controlled Field Trials into (existing) Panel Surveys – The “Mentoring of Refugees” Study.”

    Articles
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , and . . “YouTube, Google, Facebook: 21st Century Online Video Research and Research Ethics.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, № 19 (3)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • , , , and . . “Arbeitsmarktpotenzial, Qualifikationsniveau, berufliche Perspektiven Geflüchteter.” in Der lange Weg vom Ankommen zum Bleiben - Zuwanderung und Integration von Geflüchteten in Kommunen, edited by Nicolas Legewie, Jannes Jacobsen, Martin Kroh and Zerrin Salikutluk. Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik.
    Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • , and . . “Sozialer Auf- und Abstieg: Angleichung bei Männern und Frauen.“.”

    • . . “Anchored Calibration. From Qualitative Data to Fuzzy Sets.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, № 18 (3)

    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Culture, Narratives, and Upward Educational Mobility.” in Youth in education: The necessity of valuing ethno-cultural diversity , edited by Noel Clycq, Jacques Haers, Marie McAndrew, Sara Mels and Timmermann Christiane. London: Routledge.
    Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • , and . . “Panel-basierte Mixed Methods Studien.” SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research

    • . . “Puncturing Inequalities: A configurational analysis of educational upward mobility.” Dissertation thesis, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

    • . . “An Introduction to Applied Data Analysis with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, № 14 (3)