Professional career

Academic career

Monographs

Börner, Stefanie/Carlson, Sören (2023): Europasoziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2017): Social Class and Transnational Human Capital. How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization. Abingdon: Routledge.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2016): Klassenlage und transnationales Humankapital. Wie Eltern der mittleren und oberen Klassen ihre Kinder auf die Globalisierung vorbereiten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Editorships

Carlson, Sören/Barglowski, Karolina (eds.) (2024): Transnational class formation: Identities, practices and symbolic classifications. Special theme. Global Networks 24 (3).

Lueg, Klarissa/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2020): Narrative and Europeanization. Special issue. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE) 5 (1).

Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2018): Education, Europeanization and Europe's Social Integration. Special issue. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4).

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (eds.) (2014): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Carlson, Sören/Barglowski, Karolina (2024): Theorizing transnational class formation: Novel approaches to the study of transnational inequalities and class-making. Global Networks 24 (3): e12491.

Carlson, Sören/Schneickert, Christian (2021): Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields. The Sociological Review 69 (5): 1124–1140.

Lueg, Klarissa/Carlson, Sören (2020): Narrative and Europeanization: bringing together two processual notions. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE). 5 (1): 1–15.

Carlson, Sören (2018): Intra-European mobility and the formation of a European society? German mobile graduates’ early careers in trans-/national professional fields. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4): 464–483.

Carlson, Sören/Eigmüller, Monika/Lueg, Klarissa (2018): Education, Europeanization and Europe’s social integration. An introduction. Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research 31 (4): 395–405.

Carlson, Sören/Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke (2017): Educating Children in Times of Globalisation: Class-specific Child-rearing Practices and the Acquisition of Transnational Cultural Capital. Sociology 51 (4): 749–765.

Carlson, Sören/Kahle, Lena/Klinge, Denise (2017): Wenn Narrationen nicht zustande kommen… Wie hochreflexive Berufsfelder dazu beitragen, dass argumentativ-evaluative Darstellungsweisen im narrativen Interview dominant werden. Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung (ZQF) 18 (2): 239–262.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören/Drewski, Daniel (2017): The Globalisation of Labour Markets: A Content Analysis of the Demand for Transnational Human Capital in Job Advertisements. Soziale Welt 68 (1): 25–44.

Carlson, Sören (2013): Becoming a Mobile Student – a Processual Perspective on German Degree Student Mobility. Population, Space and Place 19 (2): 168–180.

Articles in edited volumes

Klinge, Denise/Carlson, Sören/Kahle, Lena (2021): Countering the master-narrative of "good parenting"? Non-academic parents’ stories about choosing a secondary school for their child. In: Lueg, Klarissa/Lundholt, Marianne Wolff (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. Abingdon: Routledge, 225–237.

Carlson, Sören/Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke (2014): Klassenunterschiede im Zugang zu transnationalem Humankapital. Eine qualitative Studie zu schulischen Auslandsaufenthalten. In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 127–152.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Transnationales Humankapital, Reprivatisierung der Ausbildung und neue soziale Ungleichheiten. In: Löw, M. (ed.): Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 385–399.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Transnationales Humankapital. Einleitende Bemerkungen zu Kontextbedingungen, Erwerb und Verwertbarkeit von transnationalen Kompetenzen. In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenzüberschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 7–19.

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören (2014): Die Renditen von transnationalem Humankapital: Das Beispiel "Partizipation an einer transnationalen europäischen Öffentlichkeit". In: Gerhards, J./Hans, S./Carlson, S. (eds.): Globalisierung, Bildung und grenz­überschreitende Mobilität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 259–293.

Carlson, Sören (2011): How to explain the transnational occupational mobility of former international students? Suggestions for a change in research and theoretical perspectives. In: Dervin, F. (ed.): Analysing the consequences of academic mobility and migration. Newcastle: CSP, 115–129.

Working Papers

Lomer, Sylvie/Budginaitė-Mačkinė, Irma/Carlson, Sören/Klasik, Daniel/Bamberger, Annette et al. (2024): Social inequalities in international student mobility: a systematic literature review. Centre for Global Higher Education Working Papers Series, No. 117. Oxford: University of Oxford, Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE).

Gerhards, Jürgen/Hans, Silke/Carlson, Sören/Drewski, Daniel (2015): Die Globalisierung des Arbeitsmarktes: Die Veränderung der Nachfrage nach transnationalem Humankapital im Zeitverlauf (1960‐2014) und im Ländervergleich auf der Grundlage einer Analyse von Stellenanzeigen. BSSE Arbeitspapier Nr. 35. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.

Carlson, Sören (2011): Just a matter of choice? Student mobility as a social and biographical process. SCMR-Working Paper No. 68. University of Sussex: Sussex Centre for Migration Research.

Others

Eder, Klaus/Carlson, Sören (2020): Europe as a narrative laboratory. Klaus Eder on European identity, populist stories and the acid bath of irony. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (CPE) 5 (1): 102–117.

Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Report on the conference "Research into Europeanization – European Encounters, Politics, and Higher Education". Sociology. Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 46 (2): 205-207.

Lueg, Klarissa/Eigmüller, Monika/Carlson, Sören (2017): Europeanization and Higher Education. On the relevance of a Europe-oriented perspective on higher education processes. Internationalisierung, Vielfalt und Inklusion in der Wissenschaft (IVI) 2: 29-30.

Carlson, Sören (2012): Book review: N. Schneider/B. Collet (Hrsg.): Mobile Living Across Europe II: Causes and Consequences of Job-Related Spatial Mobility in Cross-National Comparison. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 2010. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38 (10): 1698-1699.

Selected presentations since 2020

2024

• Symbolische Grenzen und Klassenbildung in transnationalisierten Kontexten am Beispiel einer qualitativen Studie zu Tech Professionals in Dublin. Sektionenkonferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Osnabrück, 09/2024

• European social classes in the making? A historical-sociological view on class formation processes. Interdisciplinary Conference on European Advanced Studies (IDEAS 2024), Bruxelles, 05/2024

2023

• Transnational class-making? Symbolic boundaries among Dublin’s tech professionals. Université du Luxembourg, 11/2023

• Symbolische Grenzziehungen von Tech Professionals in Dublin. Zur Herstellung von Klassenzugehörigkeiten in transnationalisierten Kontexten. Jahrestagung der Sektion Kultursoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Weimar, 09/2023

2022

• Symbolic boundaries and class-making among tech professionals in Dublin. Research Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 11/2022

• Does Europeanization lead to transnational class formation? A historical-sociological perspective. 28th Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Lisbon, 06/2022

• Schooling and the education divide in European identity. Reconsidering current theorizing on this cleavage. 28th Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Lisbon, 06/2022

• UK-German Frontiers of Research Symposium on Mobilities. British Academy and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, 05/2022

2021

• Transnational class formation: Concepts and issues in studying transnational class-making (with K. Barglowski). Workshop "Transnational class formation in Europe and beyond", Dortmund, 06/2021

• Transnationale Klassenbildung in Europa? Eine historisch-soziologische Perspektive. Tagung der Sektion Europasoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Magdeburg, 03/2021

2020        

• Symbolische Grenzen und die Konstruktion hochqualifizierter Migrant*innen als Gruppe. Eine qualitative Analyse anhand des Berliner Stadtmagazins Exberliner. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Berlin, 09/2020

• Transnational professional mobility and the emergence of a European society. Research Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 02/2020

• Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the DGS Section "Sociology of Europe"
• Board member of the Section "Sociology of Europe" within the German Sociological Association (DGS) (since 11/2020)
• Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) (since 01/2023)
• Member of the editorial boards of Sociology and The Sociological Review (since 01/2023)
• Member of the EU COST Action CA20115 European network on international student mobility: Connecting research and practice (ENIS), Working Group 2 "Social inequalities in access to and during ISM"
• Alternate member of the ethics commission, Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF) (since 11/2023)