Prof. Dr. Sebastian Koos

Professorship in Sociology with a Focus on Social Movements

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Sebastian Koos is Professor of Sociology with a Focus on Social Movements at the Department of History, Sociology, Sports Science and Empirical Educational Research at the University of Konstanz and principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality". 

His research focuses on protest and social movements, issues of solidarity and social cohesion, as well as climate and environmental sociology and economic and organisational sociology. After completing his PhD in sociology at the University of Mannheim on "Corporate and Consumer Responsibility across Europe" in 2012, Koos worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. From 2015 to 2021, he was an assistant professor of "Corporate Social Responsibility" at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. From 2015 to 2016, Sebastian Koos was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Link to the current Publications

Publications

Current Research Projects

Climate Inequalities in the Global South: from Perceptions to Protest

Integration at Work

Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Work in Post-Industrial Welfare States

The Problematisation and Regulation of Responsibility in Transnational Supply Chains: Public Discourse, Private Governance and State Intervention in Germany and Switzerland