Social Sciences (Ph.D./doctorate)

The aim of the doctoral programme "Social Sciences" at the Faculty of Social Sciences is to qualify students to take on responsible tasks in research and teaching and in non-university professional fields. A research-oriented, curriculum-defined postgraduate training programme enables students to master, critically reflect on and apply recent theories and methods of the social sciences and to produce scientific expertise. In addition, students are to acquire key qualifications. The GGG Graduate School offers accompanying support and qualification measures.

The topic of the dissertation must be chosen from a subject represented at the Faculty of Social Sciences: Education, Ethnology, Gender Studies, Modern Indian Studies, Political Science, Social Science Diversity Research, Sociology or Sports Science.

The common research object of the individual disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences is the social action of people in a historically and socially determinable place. Against the backdrop of current social processes and problems, the conditions of individual and collective action are examined, its culture-, gender- and class-specific forms are described and its effects and consequences are researched on a macro-social as well as on a micro-social level. The aim is to use the combination of subjects united in the Faculty of Social Sciences, which is not found at any other location, to theoretically and empirically penetrate current subject areas from different perspectives. In doing so, theory-based social science methods are applied. The joint Methods Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences provides methodological advice and support for empirical research projects. In the following years, research at the Faculty of Social Sciences is primarily determined by two main research areas: "Educational research: educational and occupational biographical transitions in the early life course" and "Globalisation of economic action and institutional change".

Academic teaching and research activities in university and non-university research institutions, management positions in the field of public relations and media, in administrations, in knowledge management, in international organisations and in intercultural transfer, in adult and continuing education, in associations, consulting agencies and in market and opinion research.