Author: Dr. Stephan Pflaum

Eine Frage, die mir Studierende immer wieder stellen: “Soll ich meine Gastro-Jobs wirklich im CV erwähnen?” Meine klare Antwort: Ja – und das mit der richtigen Strategie! Gastrojobs sind Gold wert. Nirgendwo lernt man mehr über Menschen, Stressresistenz und Service… read more / weiterlesen Was gehört in den Lebenslauf – und was nicht? – Gastrojobs

Bewerbung 2.0: Dein digitaler Wegweiser zum Traumjob Die blaue papierlederne Bewerbungsmappe mit goldenen Lettern ist Geschichte. Video-Interviews sind gekommen, um zu bleiben. Und plötzlich musst du dich nicht nur in Zoom souverän präsentieren können, sondern auch noch wissen, wie du… read more / weiterlesen Kompass Digitale Bewerbung – Weil sich der Arbeitsmarkt verändert hat (und du dich auch verändern solltest)

Der Karriere-Kompass für Studierende – Mehr als nur ein Ratgeber Du fragst dich manchmal, ob du den richtigen Weg eingeschlagen hast? Ob dein Studium wirklich zu dir passt? Und wie du aus deinem Bachelor oder Master heraus einen Job findest,… read more / weiterlesen Der Karriere-Kompass für Studierende

Teaser When you ask an AI to “Zeichne eine Pilotin” (“draw a [female] pilot”) in German, chances are you’ll get a male pilot instead. This isn’t just a quirk—it’s a systematic pattern revealing how multilingual language models can erase gender,… read more / weiterlesen Lost in Translation: How Language Models Distort Meaning Across Languages

Teaser Football clubs don’t just play matches—they produce narratives. From Nürnberg’s “Der Club” mythology to St. Pauli’s pirate flags, from Crystal Palace’s choreographed ultras to the working-class roots of Regensburg, each team generates linguistic patterns and storytelling frames that encode… read more / weiterlesen Club Narratives and Football Phrases: A Comparative Sociology of Identity Construction Across 13 Clubs

Why do millions of strangers feel united by eleven players kicking a ball? Football is more than sport—it’s a social laboratory where identity, power, ritual, and belonging collide. This blog teaches sociology through football analysis, making abstract theory tangible through the game you love. Learn by doing: apply Bourdieu to derby culture, use Grounded Theory on fan interviews, analyze stadium rituals with Goffman—all while deepening your sociological understanding.

Alt text: Abstract representation of identity fragmentation showing a central self dissolving into scattered orange, blue, and teal circular forms with radiating lines on dark background, symbolizing the dissolution of coherent selfhood under social pressures. Teaser What happens when the… read more / weiterlesen When the Self Dissolves: Identity Fragmentation Between Social Voices and Clinical Reality

Teaser The AI landscape is overwhelmingly white and male. By consciously naming my AI agents with female personas, I’m not just making a stylistic choice—I’m actively constructing a counter-public within the mainstream AI bubble. This post explores why representation matters… read more / weiterlesen Why I Use AI—And Why My Agents Are Female: A Sociology of (Female, and…) Counter-Publics in the AI Bubble

(rev. by Claude.ai) Thoughts about a Queer Counterpublic A Sociological Seminar Paper Abstract This text examines the decades-long cultural debate surrounding Sesame Street characters Ernie and Bert through the theoretical framework of publics and counterpublics. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s foundational… read more / weiterlesen Questions about Ernie & Bert

Teaser Every social system draws a line. Inside: recognition, participation, belonging. Outside: invisibility, exclusion, friction. From Parsons’ pattern variables to Luhmann’s autopoietic closures and Nassehi’s digital observations, systems theory reveals how societies generate their most consequential tensions not despite their… read more / weiterlesen Membranes of Meaning: How Social Systems Create Friction Through Inclusion and Exclusion

Teaser When a substance crosses from illegal to legal status, something more fundamental shifts than mere regulatory frameworks. The entire social system reorganizes: new markets emerge, criminal networks collapse, medical institutions expand, and individuals move from exclusion zones back into… read more / weiterlesen Systems Theory and Addiction: How Legal/Illegal Binary Codes Shape Drug Markets and Social Inclusion

Teaser When we talk about artificial intelligence, we usually ask whether machines can “think.” But what if that’s the wrong question? Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory offers a radical reframing: AI isn’t about intelligence or consciousness—it’s about communication that reduces complexity… read more / weiterlesen AI as Communication: Luhmann’s Systems Theory and the Question of Artificial Intelligence

Teaser When Manuel Castells theorized the Network Society in 1996, he identified how network logic would restructure social life—but he couldn’t foresee how artificial intelligence would weaponize those very networks. This essay traces a quarter-century arc from Castells’ prescient analysis… read more / weiterlesen Network Society Under Algorithmic Siege: From Castells to Computational Social Engineering

This is my art blog. Though I use AI for the first draft of my dadaistic poetry reflecting my paintings all the art to be found here is hand made. You will discover strange new worlds without leaving the planet…. read more / weiterlesen Last but not least: SchWeinWelten

Teaser When people and organizations coordinate, they don’t only trade goods—they trade information, promises, and risks. Wherever information is costly, incentives diverge, and communication is strategic, social friction appears: delays, distrust, blame games, costly safeguards, and the quiet exit of… read more / weiterlesen Transaction Costs, Agency, and Games: Why Social Friction Persists

Teaser I sketch a Marxist analysis of how drug markets are organized in capitalist systems—and what would likely change under a socialist organization. I triangulate legal alcohol, forbidden substances, and “Leistungsdrogen” (from cocaine to prescription stimulants and sport doping), and… read more / weiterlesen Class, Intoxication, and Capital: A Marxist Map of Drug Markets