When machines paint: AI-generated art as a sociological challenge
Teaser Algorithms that create oil paintings on demand – it sounds like science fiction, but it has become everyday reality. Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion revolutionized art production in 2022–2025. What for some means democratic participation is for others the end of creativity. From a sociological perspective, we ask: What happens when neural networks paint? […]
Wenn Maschinen malen: KI-generierte Kunst als soziologische Herausforderung
Teaser Algorithmen, die auf Zuruf Ölgemälde erzeugen – klingt nach Science-Fiction, ist aber Alltag geworden. Midjourney, DALL-E und Stable Diffusion haben 2022–2025 die Kunstproduktion revolutioniert. Was für die einen demokratische Teilhabe bedeutet, ist für andere das Ende der Kreativität. Wir fragen aus soziologischer Sicht: Was passiert, wenn neuronale Netze malen? Alte Fragen zu Arbeitsteilung, Entfremdung […]
Welcome to the Socioloverse: Your Universe of Hands-On Sociology
Sociology isn’t something you passively read about in dusty textbooks – it’s a living, breathing lens for understanding the world you inhabit right now. Welcome to the SocioloVerse.AI, where students, researchers, and curious minds discover how the frameworks e.g. of Durkheim, Bourdieu, Foucault, Weber, Marx, Rosa, Nassehi, Allmendinger, Coleman, Collins, Goffman,… illuminate everything from algorithmic […]
The Masterring-Servant Architecture: A New Epistemology for Human-AI Knowledge Production
How structured validation cycles transform collaborative scholarship from conversation into rigorous methodology 📖 Choose Your Reading Path This article is comprehensive (13,700 words) and serves multiple audiences. Pick the path that matches your needs: 🎓 Student Path (20-25 minutes) Goal: Understand the core concept and apply it to your own work Read These Sections: Skip: […]
When Identity Fragments, Society Reveals Itself
A Journey 12/08 – 12/14/25 Through the Socioloverse.AI Network Teaser What connects women soccer players balancing elite careers with doctoral studies, Gollum’s fractured conversations with himself, Caribbean Voodoo possession rituals, and our daily interactions with ChatGPT? They’re all windows into how society constructs, fragments, and reconstructs identity. The Socioloverse.AI network—spanning six specialized blogs—explores this fundamental […]
News from SocioloVerse.AI: 10 articles that show why sociology is everywhere
December 2025 – From zombie apocalypses to soccer derbies to AI tools for research: In December, the six blogs of the “SocioloVerse.AI” network once again demonstrated how diverse and relevant sociological thinking is. Here is an overview of the most exciting new articles – with an invitation to dive deeper. Sociology of pop culture: What […]
Socialfriction.com 2025/12/01: Writing and Drawing Against the Self.
“As long as I write and draw, my brain doesn’t turn against me.” This raw confession captures something fundamental about creative expression that sociology has long recognized but rarely examined through the lens of everyday practice: we cannot see ourselves with our own eyes, and others cannot truly know what we think. Social situations must […]
When Likes Become Needs, Brutalist Dreams Crumble, and AI Reshapes Power: A Week in Sociology
24.11. – 30.11. Seven days. Seven blogs. Twelve explorations into why society works the way it does. What do narcissistic validation loops, failed utopian architecture, and algorithmic border controls have in common? They’re all windows into the structural forces shaping our lives — and they’re all part of this week’s journey through SocioloVerse.AI. The Addiction […]
Call for Student Papers — SocioloVerse.AI
Publish your seminar works. Get coached. Reach a real audience. Are you studying sociology or a neighboring field or somehting completely different, and you are interested in AI, working with AI? Turn your ideas, term papers, mini-studies, or theory essays into a polished piece for publication on SocioloVerse.AI (our network includes Sociology of AI, Social […]
Last but not least: SchWeinWelten
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. You can subscribe for free or not to be! Alternatively click the headline of each […]
Der Kompass Digitale Bewerbung
Kompass Digitale Bewerbung – Orientierung im Online-Dschungel der Bewerbungen 💻 Als ich den Kompass Digitale Bewerbung konzipierte, war die Welt der Arbeit gerade im Wandel. Die Corona-Pandemie hatte die Bewerbungsprozesse radikal verändert: Vorstellungsgespräche fanden plötzlich auf Zoom statt, Praktika wurden digital, und Karrierewege mussten neu gedacht werden. Heute – einige Jahre später – ist klar: […]
Der Mentoring Kompass für Unternehmen und Mentor:innen (2. Auflage in Arbeit)
Mentoring lebt von Erfahrung – und davon, sie weiterzugeben. Was in antiken Erzählungen mit Odysseus und seinem Freund Mentor (eigentlich die Göttin Athene) begann, erlebt in der Moderne eine beeindruckende Renaissance: In Unternehmen, Hochschulen und Verbänden wird Mentoring zu einem Schlüsselinstrument des Lernens. Der Mentoring Kompass von Stephan Pflaum und Lothar Wüst ist kein trockenes […]
Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — a sociological reading, with a salute to Jack London
Teaser I start this project with a book that influenced me deeply: Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Maté, 2010). It is an award‑winning, humane, and rigorously argued guide to addiction’s social roots and to more compassionate responses. In dialogue with Jack London’s John Barleycorn (London, 1913/2010), I sketch why literature and sociology […]