Welcome to the Master of Social Sciences website at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), where you will find all the information related to this program.
This program focuses on the analysis of social processes that characterize contemporary regional, national, and international configurations. The program promotes the comprehensive training of professionals dedicated to social research from a historical perspective, and the ability to work in specific fields such as theoretical and methodological designs, teaching, and social action.
The program seeks to respond professionally and ethically to different contemporary needs and problems from an analytical perspective without declining the possibility of action. Supported by an experienced teaching and research staff, the master’s program dedicates its efforts to training students in skills and competencies that enable them to propose, evaluate and contribute to the design of policies, as well as to participate in public debate and the development of innovative theories and methods.
Lines of Acquisition and Application of Knowledge
The program has been structured considering two general lines of research that describe specific thematic domains.
General Lines of Research:
Policies, Public Problems and Democratization
The line deals with a research perspective that takes epistemological pluralism as its starting point, which recognizes the primacy of scientific objects over theories, and multi-method pluralism in the social sciences.
From this perspective, we problematized themes like government institutions, public action, political values, social movements, state construction and democratization processes.
A second axis of interest is the outcomes of social and political institutions in their interaction with the dynamics and problems in their historical dimension, new political identities, peace-building processes, and the discussion of the dynamics of violence and insecurity, among others of broader local, regional and international relevance.
Sociocultural processes in urban and rural contexts
We study Sociocultural problems from a process perspective, which focuses on the identification of historical, social and cultural elements. From this perspective, we problematize collective identities, traditions and social representations, gender studies, micro-social and cultural dynamics of everyday life, migration processes, indigenous identities and the transformations and emerging problems in the continuum of rural, urban and peri-urban areas, among others, from a multi- and intercultural perspective.
