Universität Wien

230017 WS Diagnosis of Society: Memory and Generation (2023S)

Approaches and research

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Update 28.02.2023: die Vorbesprechung am 31.03.2023 muss leider von 16:45 auf 11:30 vorverlegt werden. Studierende, die deshalb nicht an dieser Einheit teilnehmen können, verlieren Ihren Platz nicht, sofern Sie am 25.04.2023 anwesend sind.

  • Friday 31.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 25.04. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 02.05. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 16.05. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 06.06. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 13.06. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
  • Tuesday 27.06. 15:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Sociologists should be especially interested in the relationship of health and organizations. Our present society has been characterized as a “Society of Organizations” and a “Health Society”. Organizations have become more and more central in all spheres of life, and health has become a central societal issue in the last decades. Health impacts of organizations, especially the impact of work on health, has been a core issue of health sciences and public health interventions, especially health protection and disease prevention developed since the 19th century. In the last decades (since the 1980s), health promotion has been promoted by WHO, the World Health Organization, as a new group of public health interventions. Sociology has contributed a lot to this development, particularly concerning the Settings Approach, one of the core strategies of the health promotion approach. Many of these “settings” in which we live our everyday lives, heavily impact on our health. And most of these settings are controlled or at least influenced by organizations. So intervention strategies of the Settings Approach focus try to influence organizational functioning towards optimizing its health impact.
The lecture will focus on settings like workplace, but also human service organizations like hospitals, schools, aged-care residencies etc.
The lecturer has a vast range of experience in research, development and evaluation on the settings approach in different organizational settings, but also students of the Master Program who are writing their thesis in this area are invited to contribute their research project.

Inputs and discussions will include the following issues:
- theoretical and empirical knowledge on impacts of organizations on health
- concepts of health and health promotion
- basic strategies for health promotion interventions in organizational settings, examples from schools, business companies, hospitals and long-term care facilities
- Research on the settings approach: Type and function of research (needs assessment, diagnosis, evaluation, impact analysis, action research etc.), design and methods

Assessment and permitted materials

written final exam; 4 questions (out of a list of 6) have to be answered in text form (short essay)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Basic understanding of scientific analysis of the impact of organisationd on health of different groups (specific determinants and processes); understanding of the conceptual basis of health promotion interventions in organisational settings; knowledge about practical application and scientific contributions to health promotion in specific organisational settings (workplace, hospitals, schools etc.). This includes needs assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of specific interventions.

Examination topics

Content of the lectures (will be available on the web), basic and selected specific scientific literature

Reading list

Dimbath, O. (Hrsg.) (2010). Soziologie des Vergessens: theoretische Zugänge und empirische Forschungsfelder. Konstanz.
Halbwachs, M. (1925/1985). Das Gedächtnis und seine sozialen Bedingungen. Frankfurt a. M.
Mannheim, K. (1928). Das Problem der Generationen. In: Kölner Vierteljahrshefte für Soziologie, 7, 2: 157185; 3: 309330.
Ricoeur, P. (2005). Erinnern und Vergessen, in: Vom Text zur Person. Hermeneutische Aufsätze (1970-1999), 295-315.
Rosenthal, G. (2010). Zur Interdependenz von kollektivem Gedächtnis und Erinnerungspraxis. Kultursoziologie aus biographietheoretischer Perspektive. In: Wohlrab-Sahr, M. (Hrsg.):
Kultursoziologie Paradigmen, Methoden, Fragestellungen. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 151-
175.

Association in the course directory

in 505: BA T2 Workshop Gesellschaftsdiagnosen

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