Dr. Sarah Lenz
PostDoc
Senior Researcher, Research and teaching
- E-Mail:
- sarah.lenz@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-3322
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- Office Address:
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Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- N2.307
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Research
Research Interests
- Economic sociology
- Culture and morals of economy
- Analysis of capitalism
- Social inequality
- Pragmatism
- Sustainability
- Digitalisation
- Qualitative research
Publications
Selected Publications
Sustainability, Climate Change and Convention Theory
S. Lenz, in: Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions, 2025.
Analyzing Infrastructures in the Anthropocene
P. Degens, S. Lenz, I. Hilbrich, Historical Social Research (2022).
Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses
S. Lenz, Social Science Information (2021).
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Teaching
Current Courses
- Zwischen Fortschritt und Krise ? Die ?kologische Kontroverse um digitale Infrastrukturen
- Soziologische Zeitdiagnosen
Further Information
Academic Background
Since 04/2025
- Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Paderborn
Summer 2024
- Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz, Austria
03-04/2023
- Fellowship, London School of Economics and Political Science, London (LSE), United Kingdom
Since 08/2020
- Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
09/2019-03/2025
- Research Associate (postdoc) DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies Futures of Sustainability
03/2018–09/2019
- Research Associate, Departement of Sociology, Social Inequality, University of Basel
2017
- Dissertation Ethische Geldinstitute. Nomrative Orientierungen und Kritik im Bankenwesen, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt
03/2015–03/2018
- Research Associate DFG project “Popular Views on Inequality and Justice in Germany", Goethe University Frankfurt
04/2013–03/2015
- Research Associate “The Professional Morality of Bankers: Milieu-Formation and Codes of Professional Ethics in Global Finance” Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, Goethe University Frankfurt
07/2012–04/2013
- Researcher, Economic Sociology, University of Trier
2012
- Magister degree in Sociology and German language and literature, University of Trier