Yevhen Voronin

Yevhen Voronin

Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal

I am a research fellow in sociology at the University of Wuppertal, with scientific interests in quantitative sociology and computational social science; consumption and taste; cultural stratification; cultural policies; social transformations; inequality and redistribution.

I completed my bachelor’s degree (BA) in sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and my master’s degree (MSc) in sociology and social research at the University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany). From 2019 to 2022, I worked at GESIS, initially as a student assistant and later as a researcher in the Metadata Team (Data Services for the Social Sciences Department). In 2022, I joined the University of Wuppertal to pursue my Ph.D. dissertation.

My cumulative dissertation, The Social Life of Taste: Patterns and Influences in Cultural Consumption (2026), examines contemporary forms of the social embeddedness of cultural taste and consumption. It contributes to research on omnivore–univore patterns, advances understanding of cultural practices during periods of societal disruption, and offers new insights into the role of social influence in cultural markets.

While working as a research fellow at the University of Wuppertal, I developed four courses, which were taught a total of 16 times to undergraduate students in the social sciences and sociology: Sociology of Consumption (seminar, 3/4 ECTS, x11 times), Introduction to the Consumer Society (seminar, 3 ECTS, x1 time), Inequality and Redistribution (lecture, 4 ECTS, taught in cooperation with political science and applied economics, x3 times), and Climate Change: Sociological Perspective (excercise, 2 ECTS, x1 time). The evaluation of courses shows a consistent high level of assessment, with scores for each index ranging from 1 (very good) to 2 (good). The score for general impression ranges from 1.2 to 1.7, indicating a high evaluation.

Recent publications

  1. Voronin, Y. (2025). Detailing social influence in predicting cinema attendance: A vignette approach. Poetics, 113, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102041
  2. Voronin, Y. (2025). Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap. Sociological Research Online, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804251356889
  3. Voronin, Y. (2024). Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(2), 598–628. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241256891
  4. Voronin, Y., & Lutter, M. (2024). Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany. Cultural Sociology, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241247991
  5. Voronin, Y. (2022). The Role of Values as Mediator in Relationships Between Social Position and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift Für Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-022-00864-1

See the full list of publications here.

Contact

Feel free to contact me via email voronin[@]uni-wuppertal.de and yevhen.voronin[@]gmail.com or on social media LinkedIn and BlueSky.