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Steffen Mau
Author · 11 books
Steffen Mau (born 1968) is a sociologist who taught macro-sociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. His books include Das metrische Wir. Über die Quantifizierung des Sozialen (2017), Lütten Klein. Leben in der ostdeutschen Transformationsgesellschaft (2019), and Ungleich Vereint. Warum der Osten anders bleibt (2024). Together with Thomas Lux and Linus Westheuser, he published Triggerpunkte. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft (2023). In 2021, Mau received the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation; in 2024, he was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize for Ungleich Vereint.