Universität Wien

230087 VO+SE Political Sociology (2011W)

5.00 ECTS (2.50 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 12.10. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 19.10. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 09.11. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 16.11. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 23.11. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 30.11. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 07.12. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 14.12. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 11.01. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 18.01. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Wednesday 25.01. 10:30 - 12:25 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Today we are witnesses of dramatic political transformations in the Arabic world. One political system after the other lost its legitimity. Society fall into civil war or are stabilized by military interventions. Political sociology will sharpen our ability to interpret these situations and to undersand the relationship between social and political processes and structures. Political sociology can not claim to take control these processes by way of political analysis. Classic social theory conceptualized political sociology as froms of authority (Weber), a concept which allowed a systematic understanding of the relationship between society and the state. Other theorists studied structures and patterns of action of elites (Mosca, Pareto, Michels). But politics is not only grounded in institutional structures and representations of action. It is also grounded in ideas and sentiments which give it legitimation. The idea of a methematical and rational world plays a major role throughout Western history since the reform programmes of Kleisthenes. Rationality played a key role in the everyday life of politics and government which is administration. Modern democracies, on the other hand, can not do without a mythological foundation of order as Max Weber has shown by using the concept of charisma. Political sociology shall highlight the relationship between society and politics analytically and empirically. It shall make the conditions and processes of political change intelligible. In the lecture we will present a number of important theorists and of empirical work in the field of political sociology. In the seminar we will work on these materials by means of discussions and presentations.

Assessment and permitted materials

Presentation, seminar paper, final exame

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Enhancing competence of using theoretical concepts in political sociology, learning ways of sociological theorizing

Examination topics

Lecture, reanding and discussing selected texts, presentations, group work

Reading list


Association in the course directory

in 505: BA A2 spezielle Soziologie |
in 121: Angewandte Soziologie (Praxisfelder), 3. Abschnitt

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