Universität Wien

230145 SE Sociology of crisis and status anxieties (2023S)

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

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 01.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 08.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 15.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 22.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 29.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 19.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 26.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 03.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 10.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 17.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 24.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 31.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 14.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 21.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 28.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 1, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Which sociological concepts and diagnoses can we use to systematically grasp current crisis-like changes - processes such as automation, deindustrialization, pandemic-related labor market shocks, energy crisis and climate crisis? The seminar approaches the problem of how individuals and different groups in society perceive and deal with such crisis-like fractures from a cultural and inequality sociological perspective. In the context of crisis-like upheavals, a central question is which social and economic experiences are collectively made (or imagined) by persons and groups of persons and as such are also collectively represented, narrativized, and elevated to the basis of social action. Temporality, in the sense of a dynamic of experiences and expectations, plays a central role in this process.
The seminar aims at linking macro- and micro-levels of observation and analysis. To this end, it combines different concepts and approaches: Theories from the field of historically oriented social science (moral economy and cleavage theories) and theories and models of social status and symbolic boundaries (Pierre Bourdieu, Cecilia Ridgeway, Michèle Lamont), as well as temporal sociological and cultural sociological perspectives on morality, loss and nostalgia. The seminar will also take up key actors in the mobilization of feelings around status anxiety and loss (especially right-wing populist parties) and their strategies in light of recent empirical research on this.
Students will learn the skills to link different strands of the literature. Using these conceptual tools, students will develop an independent research question and pursue it in the seminar. Methods include collaborative discussions, presentations in seminar, feedback from students on research questions from others.

Assessment and permitted materials

- Active participation and regular attendance
- Reading of texts/text excerpts
- Presentation of a research topic in the group
- Presentation of own research question in a session at the end of May
- Submission of a seminar paper at the end of the course

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This is an examination-immanent course with compulsory attendance. For a positive assessment, the following partial performances are required in addition to regular and active participation in the sessions:
- Preparation and discussion of seminar literature (20%)
- Presentation of a research topic in the group (20%)
- Presentation of the research question for the seminar paper (10%)
- Seminar paper (40%) on the topics discussed in the seminar. The exact content and formal requirements of the paper will be announced in the course.

Examination topics

Required texts of the course
Contents of the discussions in the course
The exact basic reading for the preparation of the respective sessions will be announced in the seminar.

Reading list

Elliot, R. (2019). The Sociology of Climate Change as a Sociology of Loss, European Journal of Sociology 58 (3), 301-337
Gest, J., Reny, T., & Mayer, J. (2018). Roots of the radical right: Nostalgic deprivation in the United States and Britain. Comparative Political Studies 51(13), 1694–1171.
Hochschild, A. R. (2016). Strangers in their own land: Anger and mourning on the American Right. New York: The New Press.
Kriesi, H., Kitschelt, H., Beramendi, P., Häusermann, S. (Hrsg.) (2015). The Politics of Advanced Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Auszüge).
Lamont, M. (2000). The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Auszüge).
Norris, P., und Inglehart, R. (2019). Cultural Backlash. Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism New York: Cambridge University Press (Auszüge).
Ridgeway, C. (2019). Status: Why is Everywhere. Why does it matter? New York: Russell Sage Foundation (Auszüge).
Tavory, I. und Wagner-Pacifici, R. (2022). Climate Change as an Event. Poetics 93.
Thompson, E.P. (1963). The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage (Auszüge).

Association in the course directory

Die Lehrveranstaltung kann für jede Forschungsspezialisierung des Masterstudiums Soziologie herangezogen werden, sofern dies inhaltlich zu Ihrem Masterarbeitsvorhaben passt.

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