Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg) of the University of Erfurt combines the functions of an Institute for Advances Studies and a Graduate School. This means that fellows appointed at the Centre not only pursue research projects that contribute to the core themes of the Centre but also offer guidance to doctoral candidates and to post-doctoral researchers working in similar fields of research. Intensive supervision relationships can therefore develop. Interaction between fellows, doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers follows the basic academic principle of research driven by instruction and instruction driven by research.
| University: | University of Erfurt |
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| Contact: |
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche StudienUniversität Erfurt Postfach 900221 99105 Erfurt Germany Tel: +49 361 737-2800 Fax: +49 361 737-2809 dekanat.mwk@uni-erfurt.de https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg |
| Director: | Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa |
| Founded in: | 1998 |
| Focus of research: | The Max-Weber-Kolleg pursues a Weberian research programme, which can be briefly characterised as interdisciplinary and comparative social sciences with great historical depth and an interest in normative questions. In the founding and development phase of the Kolleg, the Weberian research programme was directed towards the following problem areas: Religion, science and law as powers of interpretation and control interactions between cultures, social orders and mentalities in radical change action-theoretical foundations of cultural and social sciences and their relationship to normative, especially ethical questions. |
