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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. Research projects in the domain of international communication focus on current developments and changes, both in terms of media institutions and media content. Comparative projects are welcome as much as empirical case-studies and media-specific analyses in a globalized communication context. The program includes three years of PhD-study. Major work includes the program-guided development, elaboration, and finalization of the research plan, resulting in a dissertation. In addition, active participation in all program activities, most notably the weekly ISS-Research Colloquium (see Courses), is required. As part of their training supervisees are expected to assist in teaching and in research activities and to participate in the preparation of further program events.
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