The Social Climber
For Peter Mehlis, this was the initial spark. “I realized that social science, that's my thing,” says the now 62-year-old. He studied at the University, was awarded a doctorate, and today himself leads [...] is today. “We had to lift the driver cabs of trucks with our bare hands – that was 100 kilos,” he says. The doctor of sociology knows today that he always felt intellectually under-challenged. Being the [...] job anyway. My wife, a teacher, was unemployed at the time and we had a three-year-old child,” he says. Nevertheless, after completing the first course he immediately enrolled as a student of sociology