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Research

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research / AISSR

The AISSR research programme focuses on the functioning of contemporary societies and their interrelationships from a historical, comparative and empirical perspective. The research programme is organized into thirteen thematically focused groups anchored in one or more of the 4 represented disciplines.

Research focus and programme groups

Broadly speaking, the AISSR research programme focuses on the functioning of contemporary societies and their interrelationships from a historical, comparative and empirical perspective. More specifically, the research programme is organized into thirteen thematically focused groups, anchored in one or more of the represented disciplines:

  • Sociology 
  • Geography, Planning and International Development Studies 
  • Political science 
  • Anthropology

The 13 programme groups operate as intellectual communities of scholars, contributing complementary research perspectives to the institute as a relatively new entity. The groups cover a broad range of topics, such as health, citizenship, stratification, globalization and democratic representation, yet all through the lens of international comparison and multi-level analysis.