The Graduate College is funded by the State of Thuringia and was established on 1 July 2010. It is devoted to theoretical and empirical research on the significance of time structures in the process of modern social change. Issues of time and temporality, timing and sequencing, pace and "durée" of social change will be the focus of the individual dissertation projects, with a special emphasis on a comparative (historical and/or inter-national) perspective. In this context, both macrosociological and microsociological approaches to the question of continuity and discontinuity in the development of contemporary societies are welcome.
The Graduate College is closely attached to the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 580) "Social Developments after Structural Change. Discontinuity, Tradition, Structure Building" (www.sfb580.uni-jena.de). The Research Centre focuses on individual and collective, political and social responses to the disruptive change brought about by the breakdown of communist regimes in Europe. Students are invited to make use of its unique empirical data-basis and theoretical expertise on processes of societal transformation in their own scientific work.
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