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The master's degree in Sociology is unique in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. It offers a fundamental sociological program that teaches the subject in all its theoretical, methodological, and methodological diversity and fully reflects its disciplinary principles. The Master's degree in Sociology enables you to reflect theoretically on complex problems in sociology and to analyze them yourself using scientific methods. The focus is on socially relevant topics such as the structures and dynamics of modern societies, their organizational structure, and their inequalities and gender relations. The Master's degree also aims to enable and encourage students to develop and apply their own (research) ideas. Based on the teaching of classic and current theories as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods, you will gain detailed and critically reflective knowledge in a variety of sociological fields and areas.

Content of the course

The master's degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam offers you sound theoretical and methodological basic training in various thematic areas of sociology. Through the close integration of sociological theory and theoretical knowledge of specific sociologies on the one hand with quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical social research on the other, the University of Potsdam offers you a Master's degree that is characterized by a balanced relationship between subject breadth and content-related specialization. In addition to the modules on sociological theory and the methods of empirical social research that are part of the basic training, you have the opportunity to specialize in the sociological focal points of organizational and administrative sociology, social structure analysis and social inequality, political sociology, the application of empirical methods or gender sociology in the elective area.

The focus here is on promoting independent, research-oriented learning. This means that you learn to present scientific facts in a way that is understandable and comprehensible to both experts and laypeople, and thus to enter into a discourse about content, theories, methods, and the validity of scientific results. The Master's program not only enables you to act autonomously in the face of new requirements, but also gives you skills such as "decision-making ability" and "reflection ability" to analyze sociologically relevant facts, looking at them from different perspectives, and then make scientifically meaningful decisions using the theoretical and methodological knowledge you have acquired.