Takis Jakob
✆ +49 651 201 2727
✉ jakob@uni-trier.de
University Trier
Building C / Room C 437
Universitätsring 15
D-54286 Trier
Main Areas of Research
- Sociology of work and organization, in particular new forms of organization
- Sociological theory, in particular critical theory and post-structuralism
- Political sociology
- Qualitative methods of empirical social research
Projects
- “Masterminds of a Realizable Energy Transition? Epistemic Influencing Strategies of Think Tanks as Field Activities” (Project Management: Robert Jungmann)
- “Labor Criticism and New Forms of Protest on the Subreddit r/antiwork” (Project Management: Robert Jungmann)
Scientific Career
2024: M.A. Economic Sociology, Universität Trier
→ Master Thesis: Organizations as Assemblages of Machines and Affects: Exploring the Potentials of a Neomaterialist Theory of Organization Through the Case of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
2022-2024: Research Assistant, Chair of Work and Organizational Sociology, University Trier
2020: B.A. Sciology, Anthropology (minor subject), University Hamburg
→ Bachelor Thesis: Utopia and Dystopia as Instruments of Analysis and Critique in the Sociology of Work: An Examination Using the Example of the Digitalization of Industrial Work