Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik

SOCIUM is the only social science research institute in Germany that examines questions of inequality, social policy and their social and political interactions empirically and theoretically. The focus of the work is on interdisciplinary research on social, economic, political, cultural, organizational, legal, historical and socio-medical conditions and consequences of social inequality, state social policy and their interdependencies. This research is carried out in a disciplinary manner primarily by sociology, political science, health, economics and law.