Universität Wien

230166 SE Research(ing) Practices: Methods and Concepts (2013W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 04.10. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien (Vorbesprechung)
  • Freitag 11.10. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 08.11. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 15.11. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 22.11. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 29.11. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 06.12. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 13.12. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 17.01. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 24.01. 09:30 - 11:30 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Freitag 31.01. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In recent years, we witness a turn to practices in STS which has changed both the conceptions of science and technology as well the modes of researching and analyzing them. Social orders, knowledge, science, bodies, technologies, power etc. are understood to be enacted in practices. This has methodological consequences as it directs our attention to what is actually done and instructs us to proceed empirically. Against this background this seminar focuses on why and how to research practices. Aside from looking at how these phenomena can be conceptualized in a practice-based approach, we will pay particular attention to the methodological consequences and look at how we can research and analyze practices and what methods are suitable. We will examine, discuss and reflect upon the basic assumptions underlying different qualitative research approaches to practices.
'Research(ing) practices' does not only refer to our focus on practices but points to a reflection of our own research as a practice. STS has shown how sciences and their methods construct the way how we understand and act upon the world. By that, methods cannot be considered as mere tools that can be applied to study and understand the world. Methods enact the object of study in a certain kind of way.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

This course offers an introduction to theoretical concepts and methods in the 'practice turn' in STS. At the end of the course, participants will have developed an understanding of why and how to focus on practices when researching science and technology, which methodologies and methods follow from a focus on practices, how theoretical approaches we choose are entangled with the methods we apply, and how we can think about our own analyses as practices and reflect upon them.

Prüfungsstoff

In a workshop like character this course should enable participants to engage with and try out different methods and research approaches. In the first part of the seminar we will read and discuss a few case studies on a range of examples to work out a practice-based approach and reflect on its methodological implications. In a second part we will explore different methods and develop a sensibility to what they actually do in our research. In a third part participants gain the possibility to engage in small empirical projects to apply, test and reflect upon methods and concepts.

Literatur

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39