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230129 WS Diagnosis of Society: Urban sociology (2021S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Update 20.04.2021 (Covid19): digitale Lehre bis zum Semesterende

Update 24.03.2021 (Covid 19): digitale Lehre bis mindestens 08.06.2021

Update 19.02.2021: die für 2.3.2021 geplante erste Einheit wird auf 9.3.2021 verlegt.

Datenstand Dez.2020: Bei anhaltenden Einschränkungen im Kontext von Covid 19 werden Einheiten, die aktuell als hybrid geplant sind, auf digitalen Unterricht umgestellt. Beachten Sie bitte die Ankündigungen der Lehrveranstaltungsleitung bzw. die Updates im Vorlesungsverzeichnis.

  • Tuesday 09.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 16.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 13.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 27.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 11.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 08.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Tuesday 22.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course aims to provide the students with the fundamental (theoretical) framework and principles of urban sociology.

During the semester we will go through different dimension of urban research. At the begin of the class students will be asked to chose one of the available dimensions. After that every student will receive relevant literature for their presentation as well as the final essay.

Structure of the seminar:

1. Course Introduction/Brainstorming: What is a city?
2. Introduction to Urban Sociology
3. The cultural dimension of cities: Urban Lifestyle, Diversity
4. The economic dimension of cities: Industrialization, Urbanization, Globalization
5. The spatial dimension of cities: Durkheim, Simmel, Chicago School
6. The spactial dimension of cities: Poverty, Segregation
7. The spactial dimension of cities: Gentrification, Social Mix
8. Sustainable cities: concepts, methods, policies, Smart City and resilience
9. The political dimension of cities: Governance, state rescaling, inclusion and exclusion, welfare systems, bottom up participation
10. European and North-American cities: contrasting views of the urban
11. Methodology: quantitative and qualitative approaches, Urban Ethnography, dissimilartiy index

Assessment and permitted materials

Important Grading Information:
If not explicitly noted otherwise, all requirements mentioned in the grading scheme must be met.
If a required task is not fulfilled, this will be considered as a discontinuation of the course. In that case, the course will be graded as ‘fail’ (5), unless there is a major and unpredictable reason for not being able to fulfill the task on the student's side (e.g. a longer illness).
In such a case, the student may be de-registered from the course without grading.
Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer.
If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as ‘not assessed’ and will be entered into the electronic exam record as ‘fraudulently obtained’.
The plagiarism-detection service (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used in course of the grading: Details will be announced by the lecturer.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Individual presentation on an assigned topic(30%)
- Final paper (50%)
- Mandatory attendance and active participation (20%)

Attendance is compulsory (missing once will be tolerated).
All tasks have to be delivered in order to pass the course.
Otherwise the course will be considered failed.

Most of the literature will be provided in English. Therefore advanced knowledge of English is mandatory.

Notenschlüssel for the final paper:

- Structure and common thread (30%)
- Academic rules and language (20%)
- Content (50%)

100–89 sehr gut
88–76 gut
75–63 befriedigend
62 –50 genügend
0–49 nicht genügend

Examination topics

Brief introduction by the professor, individual presentation, work in groups, plenary discussion.

Reading list

Harding A. Blokland T. (2014): Urban Theory, London: Sage
Further literature will be provided throughout the semester.

Association in the course directory

in 505: BA T2 WS Gesellschaftdiagnosen

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20