Democracy & participation
Modern societies & political systems
The Institute of Social Sciences combines sociology and political science with a thematic focus on inequality and labour, democracy and transformation, migration and the urban world. Researchers analyse how democracies and their institutions function and how they deal with social crises. Their research is not only communicated in teaching, but is also actively disseminated to society through events and publications.
Law & Justice
Our students are actively committed to integration and human rights. In the Humboldt Law Clinic Fundamental and Human Rights and the Refugee Law Clinic, law students work together with lawyers and NGOs on real cases - for example to protect refugees or to enforce social rights. The clinics combine legal training with practical engagement for disadvantaged groups and thus make a direct contribution to civil society.
Research projects on social coexistence
Worlding Cities. Migration and Cohesion in the Digitally Connected City
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Manuela Bojadzijev
Women's agencies in transitional spaces of late socialism: gender orders, subjectivities, and transnational interconnections within and beyond the Eastern Bloc
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Jörg Baberowski, Prof. Dr. Oksana Nagornaia
Windy Roads: The ambivalent relationship of Union citizenship and Member State nationality.
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Matthias Ruffert
What is the Role of Firms in Immigrants' Labor Market Integration?
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Welfare in question: understandings of social protection in Germany and Italy
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías
Welcoming Neighbourhoods – Conditions of Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Communities
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Ulrike Hamann, Nihad El-Kayed
University of Regensburg Integration Award 2016 “Menschen mit Hintergrund”
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan
Uni4Democracy – Academic Freedom & Democracy under Pressure: A Berlin–Belgrade Dialogue
Principal investigator(s): Dipl.-Sozialwiss. Christian Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff
Understanding and Shifting Power in Biodiversity Conservation by Integrating Insights from Social Change Movements
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Ranjini Murali, Dagmar Wörister Baumann, Barbara Richter
Trilateral Research Conferences: Judicial Networks – A bulwark against the crisis of constitutional democracy in Europe?
Principal investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Anna-Bettina Kaiser, LL.M. (Cambridge)