Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)

Research at the BGSS is based on the interdisciplinary collaboration of sociology and political science. It concentrates on the comparative analysis of problems of social inclusion and democratic performance by addressing the following themes:

Inclusion

• social inequality and well-being
• social protest and social conflict
• politics of migration
• cultural diversity and collective identities
• education, work and life chances

Democracy

• performance of mature and young democracies
• processes of democratization, and the resilience of autocracy
• challenges and vulnerabilities of multilevel polities
• political institutions and political conflict in advanced democracies
• political institutions, political conflict, and the welfare state

• Faculty
• Doctoral Researchers