Universität Wien

230123 SE Selected Paradigms: Complexity of a Complex World (2017W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 03.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 31.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 07.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 14.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 21.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 28.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 05.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 09.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 23.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 30.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar deals with the complexity of an (ever-changing) social reality.

First, we will consider the question of what makes the social world so complex. What is the (ontological) basis of the social world's complexity?

Furthermore, we will look at the complex interdependencies between political, economic, cultural, historic, geographic,... processes and factors and ask how we can do justice to this complexity in our explanatory attempts.

To this end, 'Complexity of a Complex World' will also engage in the discussion of analytical controversies such as the structure-agency-debate and the materialism-idealism-debate. Much emphasis will also be on the key contribution of discourses, and ideas more generally, to the shaping of social structures and strategies in different contexts.

This seminar seeks to develop a broad post-disciplinary perspective for the analysis of complex social processes and provides students with a conceptual tool-kit that will allow them to reduce the complexity of social phenomena as much as necessary, but no more than necessary.

Assessment and permitted materials

regular attendance and participation, reading of selected texts and journal articles in preparation for the seminar, presentations, term paper (5.000 - 7.500 words) at the end of the semester

Hinweis der SPL: bei Feststellung einer erschlichenen Teilleistung (Abschreiben, Plagiieren, Ghostwriting, etc.) muss die gesamte Lehrveranstaltung als geschummelt gewertet und als Antritt gezählt werden.

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