Sociology - Social Research

Overview

This programme provides you with:

• key qualifications in empirical research that are demanded and rewarded on the labour market.
• insights into societal and organisational challenges and how to address them (e.g. aging workforce, ethnic diversity, social
• inequality, crime).
• a coherent learning experience that follows a clear paradigm of theory-driven empirical research.

• plenty of opportunities for practical experiences in private and public research institutes

Career

By completing this Sociology - Social Research course at the University of Cologne you will acquire skills that are highly demanded on the labour market, such as analytical thinking,

problem-solving, the collection and statistical analyses of large-scale observational data, as well as substantive knowledge on

societal challenges and trends.

It will prepare you for an increasingly data-rich professional life. By taking introductory and advanced courses in empirical methods and statistics, you will learn to collect, prepare, analyse, and interpret data. Teaming up with co-students and working on your own research project will prepare you for a broad set of positions.

Example job opportunities include work within:

• companies and organisations that look for heads of data science divisions (e.g. automobile industry, law enforcement).
• companies in market and opinion research.
• statistics agencies.
• associations concerned with social and economic policy or social planning.
• research institutes.
• media research departments within mass media corporations.
• human resources and data science departments in corporations.