Markets and Social Systems: University of Bamberg

Doctoral Programme Markets and Social Systems in Europe

The graduate programme will look into the opening and closing of markets and social systems in the interaction of global orders, European decision-making and national traditions. The processes of Europeanisation and globalisation are primarily geared toward the opening of markets. More open markets produce tensions, conflicts and crises, the settlement of which involves new forms of closures through re-regulation on both a European and a global level. In this way, national forms of market order are coming under pressure to adjust. At the same time, more open markets have an influence on the regulation of social systems. National traditions of social orders are being changed and complemented with European and global patterns of order. The interaction of developments taking place on several levels produces new, more open and more flexible forms of an order of markets and social systems. The change in markets and the related transformation of social systems form the two closely intertwined pillars of the research programme.

The graduate programme pursues a basic approach in terms of social sciences, which can, however, only be dealt with adequately through an interdisciplinary co-operation with individual disciplines from the field of economic and legal sciences. Ph.D. topics from the fields of sociology and political science, private and business law, labour and social law, financial science, international management or social politics are to be seen in this interdisciplinary light. The projects related to the legal, business or economic sciences should be attuned to the programme's orientation on social sciences. Consequently, the graduate programme's research portfolio promises to unite all those discourses which are otherwise undertaken separately in the individual disciplines of the social sciences.

See research agenda for particulars:

• http://web.uni-bamberg.de/sowi/mse/download/research.pdf