Methodenzentrum Sozialwissenschaften

Center of Methods in Social Sciences

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The Center of Methods in Social Sciences was founded in 2000 as an interdisciplinary institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is meant to help with questions and problems concerning empirical social research. One of the main tasks of the Center in addition to the accomplishment of its own research projects is to guarantee the well-grounded education for the students in methods of Social Sciences. Besides the Center of Methods offers consultation and support with empirical research projects. In order to provide a broad range of methods in Social Sciences the Center is staffed with a professorship for quantitative methods and statistics, a professorship for qualitative methods and one for multimethod social research.

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Exile – Flight – Persecution. International conference combined with the Annual Conference of the Section “Biographical Research” of the German Sociological Association
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New releases 2018 in the Göttinger Universitätsverlag:

Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): Interpretive Social Research. An Introduction. Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
The volume is also available as a free download










Rosenthal, Gabriele (Hrsg.)(2018): Established and Outsiders at the Same Time.
Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
The volume is also available as a free download








Bogner, Artur/Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): KindersoldatInnen im Kontext. Biographien, familien- und kollektivgeschichtliche Verläufe in Norduganda. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
The volume is also available as a free download