23.04. Master Program in Sociology

C.1. Compulsory Modules

C.1.1 MA T Sociological Theory: Comparison, Application and Construction

• 230063 VO Developements in sociological theory
• 230061 SE Experimental Analysis of Theoretical Models in Economic and Political Sociology
• 230092 SE Pierre Bourdieu and lifestyle theories
• 230101 SE Milestones of Sociology. Key theoretical models in sociological thought
• 230122 SE "Culture" over "Society"? - The potentials and pitfalls of the "cultural turn" in sociological theory
• 230066 SE Reading Seminar: Sociology of Religion after Max Weber Weber
• 230139 SE [ en ] Reading Seminar: Deleuze for Social Sciences
• 230151 SE Reading Seminar: Richard Sennett

C.1.2 Applied Methods and Research Strategies

• 230064 SE Qualitative Methods: Observation, Interviews, Analysis of Visual Data
• 230120 SE Qualitative Methods: Observation and Interview
• 230136 SE Specific Multivariate Methods of Analysis in the Social Sciences

C.1.3 F Area of Specialization

C.1.3.1 Area of Specialization: Health and Organization

• 230106 VO Theories of Organization
• 230113 VO Health and Health Promotion in Organisational Settings
• 230090 VO+SE Quality improvement in health care - Governance between health politics and organizational development, between expert and lay perspectives
• 230091 SE Non-medical interventions for health and their problems - Implementation in and by complex systems
• 230097 SE Group dynamics - Intercultural communication
• 230103 SE The Dynamics of Organizations
• 230118 SE Introduction to Evaluation Research

C.1.3.2 Area of Specialization: Culture and Society

• 230046 VO Picture Theories in Socio-historical Contexts. Developments and Basic Concepts
• 230089 SE Television society - Television as a sociological learning machine
• 230088 SE High culture and popular culture - A relationship of tensions between globalisation, national identity formation and local appropriation.
• 230122 SE "Culture" over "Society"? - The potentials and pitfalls of the "cultural turn" in sociological theory
• 230023 SE The Visual Worlds of Today’s Social Web - Image-based Communication on Facebook and YouTube
• 230047 SE Advanced Visual Sociology: Filmsociology
• 230048 UE Interpreting Pictures based on Segment Analysis
• 230060 FPR Practicing Visual Sociology
• 230068 VO+SE Ethnography with a special focus on ethnographic film

C.1.3.3 Area of Specialization: Family Research, Generations, Lifespan

• 230087 VO Families and Demographic Developments in Europe
• 230080 VO Ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives - Caring cultures and potentials
• 230085 SE Sociological Theory and Family
• 230083 VO+SE Family structures and national regulations - Modification of the social welfare state and gender perspectives
• 230072 VO+SE Social Network Analysis
• 230118 SE Introduction to Evaluation Research

C.1.3.4 Area of Specialization: Social Structure and Social Integration

• 230039 VO Sociology of Work - An introduction to approaches, debates and research findings
• 230079 SE Processes of exclusion in rural-peripheral social environments
• 230096 SE Social Division in the City - Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Segregation and Gentrification
• 230123 SE [ en ] Comparative Migration Research
• 230157 SE [ en ] Issues in Contemporary Immigration
• 230061 SE Experimental Analysis of Theoretical Models in Economic and Political Sociology
• 230072 VO+SE Social Network Analysis
• 230094 SE Figurations of Help and Care in Contemporary Society
• 230095 SE Survey Methodology
• 230102 SE Gender and Globalisation - Genderaspekte ökonomischer Globalisierung. Analysen und Perspektiven
• 230109 SE Society in economic and social crises? - Analyses of the causes and consequences
• 230118 SE Introduction to Evaluation Research
• 230162 PR Space theories - Producing and reclaiming the public space

C.1.3.4.1 Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 030510 SE Genderproblems in Labour Law and Social Security Law - (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)
• 070079 VO Advanced Module 1: Issues, Problems and Methods of Economic and Social History - Migrations in Modern European History

C.1.3.5 Area of Specialization: Visual Sociology

• 230046 VO Picture Theories in Socio-historical Contexts. Developments and Basic Concepts
• 230023 SE The Visual Worlds of Today’s Social Web - Image-based Communication on Facebook and YouTube
• 230047 SE Advanced Visual Sociology: Filmsociology
• 230048 UE Interpreting Pictures based on Segment Analysis
• 230060 FPR Practicing Visual Sociology

C.1.3.5 Area of Specialization: Studies of Science

• 230137 VO [ en ] Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230138 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting
• 230140 VO [ en ] Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230141 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures
• 230142 SE [ en ] Living in NatureCulture Worlds. An Introduction to feminist science studies
• 230143 SE [ en ] Practices and policies of 'Science in Society'
• 230144 SE [ en ] Sensory Studies of Science
• 230146 SE [ en ] Science, Technology & 'the Law'
• 230147 SE [ en ] Digital Methods How Do We Know?
• 230155 SE [ en ] Science Dynamics: How New Research Fields Develop

C.1.4 AR Master Thesis Seminar

• 230050 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar: Visual Sociology and Biographical Research
• 230058 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar: F : Family Research, Generations, Lifespan
• 230065 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar: Organization and Health
• 230115 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar: Inequality, migration and ethnicity and urban life
• 230121 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar: Culture and Society
• 230171 MA Master-Thesis-Seminar/PhD Seminar: Social Stratification Research

C.1.4.1 Recommanded Lectures of other Departments

• 230149 SE-MA [ en ] Coping with trouble II: Seminar for Master students in 'Science-Technology-Society' (STS)

C.2 Compulsory Elective Modules

C.2.1 EF Focus on an Area of Specialization

C.2.1.1 EF Focus on an Area of Specialization - Recommanded Lectures of other Departments

• 230137 VO [ en ] Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230138 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting
• 230140 VO [ en ] Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230141 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures
• 230142 SE [ en ] Living in NatureCulture Worlds. An Introduction to feminist science studies
• 230143 SE [ en ] Practices and policies of 'Science in Society'
• 230144 SE [ en ] Sensory Studies of Science
• 230146 SE [ en ] Science, Technology & 'the Law'
• 230147 SE [ en ] Digital Methods How Do We Know?
• 230155 SE [ en ] Science Dynamics: How New Research Fields Develop

C.2.2 EM Focus on Methods

• 230068 VO+SE Ethnography with a special focus on ethnographic film
• 230070 PR Interviewing
• 230071 PR [ en ] Introduction to SPSS
• 230072 VO+SE Social Network Analysis
• 230095 SE Survey Methodology
• 230099 PR Research ethics
• 230117 SE Depiction skills and critical dealing with data and references
• 230118 SE Introduction to Evaluation Research
• 230134 PR Advanced Data Analysis with STATA

C.2.3 ET Focus on Sociological Theory

C.2.4 PM Project Management

• 230107 SE Projectmanagement

C.2.4.1. MA PM Project Management - Recommanded Lectures of other Departments

• 230166 TR Project Management and Evaluation

C.2.5 SM Elective Social Science Module

• 230097 SE Group dynamics - Intercultural communication

C.2.5.1 SM Elective Social Science Module - Recommanded Lectures of other Departments

• 230159 SE Networks for women in science and research
• 230137 VO [ en ] Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230138 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting
• 230140 VO [ en ] Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
• 230141 KO [ en ] Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures
• 230142 SE [ en ] Living in NatureCulture Worlds. An Introduction to feminist science studies
• 230143 SE [ en ] Practices and policies of 'Science in Society'
• 230144 SE [ en ] Sensory Studies of Science
• 230146 SE [ en ] Science, Technology & 'the Law'
• 230147 SE [ en ] Digital Methods How Do We Know?
• 230155 SE [ en ] Science Dynamics: How New Research Fields Develop
• 010068 SE [ en ] Social capital and religion: a possible new model of categorizing religious communities
• 030214 KU Protection against discrimination - implementation, awareness and arguments
• 030217 SE Seminar for Master and Doctoral Candidates - for diploma and doctoral students
• 030219 SE Aspects regarding consumerism of the anti-discrimination act - for diploma and doctoral students
• 030223 SE Seminar - for diploma and doctoral students
• 030402 KU Psychological Basics of Conflict Resolution
• 030510 SE Genderproblems in Labour Law and Social Security Law - (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)
• 040314 EK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM I
• 040386 EK KFK IndM/MAR/ORGA: Sociology of Organisations
• 040313 VK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM II
• 040408 VK KFK IndM/MAR/ORGA: Sociology of Organisations
• 140376 VO T I - T III - VM1 - VM3 - Quantitative Research in International Development
• 350172 VLV BC2I - Deepening Course Sport Sociology
• 350585 SLV MB1I - Specialization Course Research Seminar
• 070086 VO Lecture Specialisaton 2 - Sexualität im 20. Jahrhundert - Globale Perspektiven und internationale Entwicklung
• 140163 SE T I - T III - VM3 - VM6 Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - Social Movements and Critique of Development Policy in Latin America
• 140210 SE T I - T II - VM5 - VM6 - Eurocentrism and Its Critique
• 140213 VO T III - VM1 - VM5 - Statelessness in an International Context - Meaning, Origin, Countermeasures
• 140220 SE T IV - VM4 - VM7 NGO-Activists and Soldiers as Photographers - Feminized and Colonized Images of Famine and War
• 230172 SE The global university system - Higher education development from an international comparative perspective

C.2.6 WK Knowledge Communication

• 230098 UE Knowledge Communication - Scientific Writing of Thesis - Wie entsteht ein guter Text ?
• 230105 UE Good style as a tool. Writing Workshop
• 230117 SE Depiction skills and critical dealing with data and references
• 230153 WS Urban interface - Syntopies between arts and science