Integrated Social Sciences – (Ph.D.)

The PhD-Program in Integrated Social Sciences is a Research-Only-PhD Program. While favouring an interdisciplinary orientation, the program is open to research projects with a primary focus on one of the following disciplines: sociology, political science, mass communication, economics. Ideally the research projects combine two or more of the above mentioned disciplinary perspectives.

Research projects that fall into the domains of sociology, political science and economics centre on significant social, political, and economic transformations in contemporary societies. These transformations can be located in the fields of social inequality and exclusion, identity patterns, cultural orientations and changing values, migration and changing notions and forms of citizenship, social movements, civil society, political mobilization, functions and forms of the state, types and patterns of democracy and their policy performance, political attitudes, attitude change and public opinion, international relations, market liberalization and regulation. Area-studies and case studies are only considered, if their comparative implications are made evident.