Methodenzentrum Sozialwissenschaften

Center of Methods in Social Sciences

You can find us in the Goßlerstraße 19.

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.

Office hours and consultation offers

Dear colleagues, dear students,

from 17.3.2020 onwards the premises of the MZS will be closed to the public.
In urgent cases, please contact the respective members of staff via e-mail.

Best regards and stay healthy,
Your MZS team!

The student consultation in qualitative research will take place again from now on! And also the "Rental of audio and video devices" and the "Access to literature on qualitative methods" are possible again:

New releases

Becker, Johannes/Weidenhaus Gunter/Witte, Nicole (Hrsg.)(2022): Biographie und Raum. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Köttig, Michaela/Witte, Nicole (Eds..)(2021): Biographie und Kollektivgeschichte.
Der Band ehrt eine der international führenden, schulbildenden Vertreter_innen der soziologischen Biographieforschung: Gabriele Rosenthal. Angelehnt an ihr wissenschaftliches Werk beschäftigen sich die Beiträge u. a. mit kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten und (inter-)nationalen Konflikten, (kollektiven) Gewalterfahrungen und Traumatisierungen in Zusammenhang mit Krieg und Fluchtmigration sowie der Verknüpfung von Täter-Opfer-Beziehungen.
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Breckner, Roswitha/Liebhart, Karina/Pohn-Lauggas, Maria (Eds.)(2021): Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Bild- und Medienwelten. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Bahl, Eva/Rosenthal, Gabriele (Eds.)(2021): Navigating through increasing social inequalities in times of Covid-19: Research report on interviews with migrants in the Middle East and Europe and migrants and indigenous people in South America. Göttingen: Centre for Global Migration Studies. (Global Migration Studies)
The research report is available as a free download







New releases in the Göttinger Universitätsverlag

Gabriele, Rosenthal/Witte, Nicole (Hrsg.)(2021): Diagnose Entwicklungsstörung. Familiengeschichte – Familiendynamik – Professionelles Hilfesystem. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
The volume is also available as a free download








Bahl, Eva (2021): Verflochtene Geschichten im postkolonialen Grenzraum [Entangled Histories in a Postcolonial Border Region: Biographies, Belongings and Memory Practices in Ceuta and Melilla]. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
The volume is also available as a free download








Schäfer, Miriam (2021): Polizist*in werden - Polizist*in sein. Strukturen und Widersprüche polizeilicher Arbeit. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
The volume is also available as a free download









Hinrichsen, Hendrik (2020): Die Generation Oslo im Westjordanland
Historische Generationen in prozesssoziologischer Perspektive. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
The volume is also available as a free download









Bahl, Eva/Becker, Johannes (2020): Global processes of flight and migration. The explanatory power of case studies. / Globale Flucht- und Migrationsprozesse. Die Erklärungskraft von Fallstudien. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
The volume is also available as a free download








Bogner, Artur/Rosenthal, Gabriele (2019): Child Soldiers in Context. Biographies, Familial and Collective Trajectories in Northern Uganda. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): Interpretive Social Research. An Introduction. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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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: Göttingen University Press.
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Bogner, Artur/Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): KindersoldatInnen im Kontext. Biographien, familien- und kollektivgeschichtliche Verläufe in Norduganda. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. .
The volume is also available as a free download