The Master’s program “Sociology: Society, Space & Transformation” will be realigned starting in the winter semester 2026/27, combining sociology with a human geography perspective. In the master’s program, we examine social processes and how they affect space – from local to global. Climate change, migration, digitalization, and production networks connect social spaces, drive social change, and transform working and living conditions. How people experience this and how social inequalities develop depends on resources, positions of power, and local ties – noticeable, for example, in family, education, housing, work, and leisure.

In joint basic courses, students acquire an integrated theoretical understanding of space, power, difference, and transformation, gain skills in quantitative and qualitative social research, and adopt a critical-reflective perspective.

Students deepen their knowledge by focusing on one or more of the following topics:

• Working and living conditions
• Migration and mobility
• Social-ecological transformations
• Methods of empirical social research

The program is compatible with bachelor’s degrees in social sciences. Career prospects lie in research, market and opinion research, urban and regional development, political consulting/social planning, NGOs/think tanks/international organizations, social and environmental policy, corporate contexts, and media. Graduates recognize structural problems in contemporary societies and develop well-founded recommendations for action.