To produce Masters and PhD of Sociology and Political Science; promote and advise empirical and theoretical research papers; design and carry out research projects collecting data, designing projects and ideas, in research areas within the Social Sciences; train professors to teach at the higher education level and researchers to work in public, private and non-government organizations.
Relying on an interdisciplinary approach to training and knowledge production and making use of the intellectual tradition of the Social Sciences, the Graduate Program in Socology and Political Science focuses on Society and Democracy as its area of concentration.
Given the academic background and professional experience of its faculty and the fact that the perspectives of Humanities provide relevant theoretical and methodological resources for understanding the reality of organizations, the Program has established political and governmental, business, religious, educational, non-governmental and international organizations as its empirical goals of research.
The Program has research nucleus and organizes national and international seminars on the issues addressed by the four lines of research, seeking to afford visibility to the intellectual production of this area and expand exchanges with researchers from other national and international academic institutions.