Universität Wien

070050 UE Guided Reading Economic and Social History - (2025W)

Lebenslauf & Gender

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 06.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 13.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 20.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 27.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 03.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 10.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 17.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 24.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 01.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 15.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 12.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 12.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 19.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 19.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 26.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Life Course & Gender
Gender is a structural category that interacts with other socially relevant differentiations. In recent years, the perspective of the human life course has attracted increasing interest, particularly in the field of global history. Life course refers to a socially institutionalized sequence of life phases, shaped by the individual, the state, and the labor market (Martin Kohli). In this guided reading, we will examine how people of different genders are situated at different stages of their lives. We will ask, for example, what expectations each society places on children, adolescents, and adults of different ages regarding their contribution to productive and reproductive labor. In doing so, we will also look at non-European contexts. The social historian Josef Ehmer, who died in 2023, devoted decades of his research to questions of the life course. We will read and discuss some of his older and more recent articles, combined with those by other historians and social scientists, to learn more about the intersection of gender and the life course from the 18th century to the present.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance in class, reading and written comments on the selected texts, presentation of texts

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Reading the texts, writing short comments, participating in the discussion, presenting one of the texts

Examination topics

Reading list

Josef Ehmer, Carola Lentz (Hg.), Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History, De Gruyter: Boston/Berlin 2023.

The further research literature discussed in the course (2 articles per week) will be announced at the beginning.

Association in the course directory

BA Geschichte (Version 2019): PM5 Vertiefung, UE Guided Reading (5 ECTS).
BEd UF GP (Version 2014): UF GP 03 Aspekte und Räume 1, Guided Reading zu einem Fach (4 ECTS).
EC Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (Version 2021): UE Guided Reading aus den spezifischen Themenfeldern der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5ECTS).

Last modified: Th 09.10.2025 12:05