The aim of Historical Sociological research is the study of issues of long-term social processes and trends that have a significant impact on contemporary societies and phenomena. The M.A. Historical Sociology cultivates research activities and the education of experts with an emphasis on the specialisation of these processes. Above all, historical sociology deals with problems of modernisation and social change, globalisation trends and influences, integration and disintegration processes, the relationship of continuity and discontinuity, religious and cultural pluralism, linking the global to the local, the identification of the chances and risks of social development, the analysis of conflict situations and the possibility of overcoming them.

The aim of the field of study is, in connection with the Bachelor's degree, to educate university-educated experts in the field of historical sociology at the Master's university level. The study program is a continuation of the bachelor's study programs of social sciences and humanities and focuses on the issues of long-term social processes and trends, modernization, globalization trends and influences. The study of historical sociology is divided into three basic blocks. The theoretical and historical block offers courses on general theoretical concepts of historical sociology and civilization.