Technology & Diversity

The Chair of "Technology and Diversity" at the Institute of Sociology deals with the manifold interactions between human diversity and technical innovations. In various projects, the staff of the chair investigates how technology shapes and changes categories of diversity, and what influence diversity has on the development and application of technical innovations. One focus of research is on biotechnological and biomedical developments, especially in the fields of genetics, genome research, neuroscience and related technologies. With regard to diversity, we do not only focus on gender issues. Rather, we like to expand the field of German diversity research and to address the entire spectrum of diversity, for example, questions of social origin and ethnicity, age and aging, disability, religion, and the difference between social and biological gender.

Further focal points in research and teaching are cultural sociological issues, medical sociology, (qualitative) methods of empirical social research, social problems and social control, security research, visual sociology, and science and technology studies.

Team

	Name	Contact
	Universitätsprofessor Dr. Torsten H. Voigt	Phone: +49 241 80 96036 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 thvoigt@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Visiting Professor Prof. Dr. Alexandra Hofmänner	Phone: 0241 80 94817 ahofmaenner@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Dr. Nina Amelung	Phone: +49 241 80 96093 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 namelung@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Secretary's office Gaby Jenske	Phone: 0241 80 96093 Fax: 0241 80 92160 gjenske@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Dr. Bettina Paul	Phone: +49 241 80 96093 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 bpaul@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Dr. Sylvia Kühne	Phone: +49 241 80 96093 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 skuehne@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Larissa Fischer M. A.	Phone: +49 241 80 96093 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 lfischer@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Olga Duckwitz	Phone: +49 241 80 96093 Fax: +49 241 80 92160 oduckwitz@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Nil Uzun-Weidner M. A.	nuzun@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de
	Ira Zöller M.A.	Phone: +49 241 80 94817 izoeller@soziologie.rwth-aachen.de