Bachelor Sociology (505 [3] - Version 2024)

Introductory and Orientation Period (STEOP) (16 ECTS)

B1 STEOP - Basics of Methodology in the Social Sciences (6 ECTS)

• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) B1 STEOP - Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

B1 Basics of Methodology in the Social Sciences: Approved Lectures Social Sciences

B2 STEOP - Subject-Specific Introduction to Sociology (10 ECTS)

B3 Basics of Social Sciences (14 ECTS)

B3 Basics of Social Sciences: Approved Lectures Social Sciences

• 210003 VO BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 220074 VO INSOWI A: VO WITHEGI Theory and History of Science
• 220091 VO INSOWI A: VO SOFRA Current Social Issues and Sociological Aspects

B4 Sociological Theories: Basics (12 ECTS)

• 230005 VO B4 Basics of Sociological Theories
• 230006 SE B4 Basic Concepts of Sociology
• 230007 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230008 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230009 UE B4 Guided Reading: "Sketch for a (Self-)Analysis: How to Think Like a Sociologist?"
• 230010 UE B4 Guided Reading: Karl Marx and the Beginning of Sociological Theory of Society - Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230011 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230012 UE [ en ] B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230013 UE B4 Guided Reading: Thinking Democracy
• 230014 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts

B5 Quantitative Social Research and Statistics in Sociology: Basics (20 ECTS)

• 230020 VO B5 Statistics in Sociology 1 - Lecture
• 230021 XV Tutorial: B5 VO Statistics in Sociology 1 - Bachelor 2011, Bachelor 2024 und EC
• 230022 VU B5 Introduction to Quantitative Social Research
• 230023 UE B5 Statistics in Sociology 1 - Excercise
• 230024 UE B5 Statistics in Sociology 2 - Excercise

B6 Societal Analyses (12 ECTS)

• 230025 VO B6 Diagnosis of Society
• 230027 SE B6 The Challenges of Sustainability
• 230028 SE B6 Democracy, autocracy and hybrid regimes - Current Societal Developments
• 230029 SE B6 Sociology of displacement and war - Current Societal Developments
• 230030 SE B6 Highly Competetive: Housing as a Core Conflict in Contemporary Society - Current Societal Developments

B6 Societal Analyses: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 233002 UK Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft - Wer beeinflusst hier wen?!
• 233003 UK Internationale Raumfahrt - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Innovation, Politik & Gesellschaft im neuen 'Space Race'
• 233004 UK Körper, Wissen und Gesellschaft im Zeitalter der Genetik und KI
• 233005 UK Technology and Society - Technik im Alltag am Beispiel von Daten, Algorithmen und Prognosen

B7 Qualitative Social Research (16 ECTS)

• 230035 VU B7 Introduction to Qualititative Social Research
• 230036 VO B7 Methods of Interpretative Social Research - Lecture
• 230037 UE B7 Biographical research - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230038 UE B7 RDiscourse Analysis - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230039 UE B7 Reconstructive Social Research and Documentary Method - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230040 UE Objective Hermeneutics - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230041 UE B7 Ethnography - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230042 UE B7 Reflexivity in Qualitative Social Research: Perspectives, Practice, and Challenges - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230043 UE B7 Qualitative interviews - Conducting qualitative interviews - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230044 UE B7 Analyzing (digital) actifacts - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230045 UE B7 Images as Data Material - Researching with Visual Methods - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)

B8 Applied Sociology (12 ECTS)

• 230051 SE B8 Sociology of Work - Work and migration Selected Research Areas 2
• 230052 SE B8 Sociology of Environment and Sustainability - Socio-ecological crises and transformations - Selected Research Areas 2
• 230053 SE B8 Sociology of Emotions - Selected Research Areas 2
• 230054 SE B8 Sociology of Culture - On the Sociology of Music - Selected Research Areas 2
• 230055 UE B8 What really works? Evaluation research as applied Sociology - Sociology in Practice
• 230056 UE B8 Homelessness and Homeless Assistance in Vienna - Sociology in Practice
• 230057 UE B8 Sociological professional fields with a focus on non-university institutes and departments - Sociology in Practice
• 230058 UE B8 Sociology of Social Work A practice field of social science - Sociology in Practice
• 230059 UE B8 Deepening and rediscovering professional fields for sociologists - Sociology in Practice

B8 Applied Sociology: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

B9 Sociological Theories Consolidation (8 ECTS)

• 230061 SE B9 Theories of cultural industries - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230062 SE B9 Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230063 SE B9 Sociology of the future - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230064 SE B9 Social Policy in Europe: History and Theory - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230065 SE B9 Punishment and modern Society - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)

B10 Quantitative Social Research Consolidation (12 ECTS)

• 230070 VO B10 VO Multivariate Methods- Lecture
• 230071 UE B10 Multivariate Methods - Exercise
• 230072 UE B10 Data Collection and Data Analysis

B11 Practical Sociological Research Course (12 ECTS)

• 230075 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: From finding a partner to everyday family life - Analyses with the Generations & Gender Survey
• 230076 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Visual Sciology
• 230077 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Culture, Morality and Class
• 230078 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Health under the pressure of multiple crises
• 230079 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Sociology of crime
• 230080 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Crisis and Security
• 230081 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: On the trail of consumer society
• 230082 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Societal Security Research - Transforming the Social through Security
• 230083 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Care crises? Family, work and gender
• 230084 PR ( ON-SITE ) B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Justice conceptions in modern societies

B12 Practice-Oriented Competences (8 ECTS)

• 230090 UE B12 Sociological Writing and Presenting
• 230091 UE B12 Realities of Science - Accompanying a scientific conference with students as a multi-layered competence - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230092 UE B12 "He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how." - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230093 UE B12 Life- and careerplanning for students - Personal competences and self-coaching - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230094 UE B12 Working in Teams - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230095 UE B12 Conflict Management - Social and Communicative Competences

B13 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis (8 ECTS)

• 230100 SE B13 Bachelor's Seminar

Alternative Extension - Recommended Lectures