Bachelor Sociology (505 [3] - Version 2024)

Orientierungsveranstaltung(en) für Studienanfänger*innen

• 230000 OV ( OV ) Orientation Event Soziologie - for new students
• 230005 OV Welcome to the studies of sociology! Tutorials for beginners - Orientation tutorials

Introductory and Orientation Period (STEOP) (16 ECTS)

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

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

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

• 210001 VO STEOP BAK1.1 Introduction to the Methodology of the Social Sciences
• 240002 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

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

• EXAM B2 STEOP - Module Exam: Subject-Specific Introduction to Sociology
• 230002 VO ( STEOP ) B2 STEOP - Introduction to Sociology
• 230003 VO ( STEOP ) B2 STEOP - Research and Application Fields of Sociology

B3 Basics of Social Sciences (14 ECTS)

• 230004 VO B3 Basics of Scientific Work in Sociology - Welcome to the Study of Sociology! Guide to starting your studies

B3 Basics of Social Sciences: Approved Lectures Social Sciences

• 210004 VO BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 220006 VO INSOWI A: VO WITHEGI Theory and History of Science
• 220013 VO INSOWI A: VO SOFRA Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research

B4 Sociological Theories: Basics (12 ECTS)

• 230006 SE B4 Basic Concepts of Sociolgy
• 230007 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230008 UE [ en ] B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts

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

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

B6 Societal Analyses (12 ECTS)

• 230025 VO B6 Structure and Transformation of Society
• 230026 SE B6 Causes and effects of prejudice and stigmatisation in the context of migration - Current Societal Developments
• 230027 SE [ en ] B6 Do Tech Bros Dream of Electric Sheep? Imagination in the 21st Century - Current Societal Developments
• 230028 SE B6 The Return of Fascism? - Current Societal Developments
• 230029 SE B6 The Relationship Between Society and the Psyche - Current Societal Developments
• 230030 SE B6 Inequalities in Europe - Current Societal Developments
• 230031 SE B6 Precarity in Employment and Beyond - Current Societal Developments
• 230033 SE B6 Contested Cities: Commodification, Gentrification and Resistance - Current Societal Developments
• 230034 SE B6 Emotion and Affect in the Context of Migration - Current Societal Developments
• 230046 SE B6 Hate Crime Sociology: Group identities and Prejudices - Current Societal Developments

B6 Societal Analyses: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 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 Künstlicher Intelligenz
• 233006 UK Werte und Bewertungen (in) der Wissenschaft

B7 Qualitative Social Research (16 ECTS)

• 230035 VU B7 Introduction to Qualitative Social Research
• 230045 VU [ en ] B7 Introduction to Qualitative Social Research
• 230036 UE B7 Hermeneutics in Social Sciences - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230037 UE B7 Reconstructive Social Research and Documentary Method - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230039 UE B7 Ethnography - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230040 UE B7 Discourse Analysis - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230041 UE B7 Digital Ethnography - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230042 UE B7 Introduction to Arts-Based Research: Using artistic methods for empirical social science - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230043 UE B7 The art of questioning – Exercises in conducting interviews - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230044 UE [ en ] B7 Visual analysis: Photographs and digital images - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)

B8 Applied Sociology (12 ECTS)

• 230050 SE B8 Sociology of Migration - Selected Research Areas
• 230051 SE B8 Sociology of Environment and Sustainability - Socio-ecological crises and transformations - Selected Research Areas
• 230052 SE B8 Sociology of Religion - Selected Research Areas
• 230053 SE B8 Sociology of Health - Selected Research Areas
• 230054 SE B8 Sociology of Love - Selected Research Areas
• 230055 SE B8 Sociology of Poverty - Selected Research Areas
• 230056 SE B8 Sociology of Youth - Selected Research Areas
• 230057 SE B8 Sociology of Discrimination - Selected Research Areas
• 230058 SE B8 Sociology of Crime and Social Control - Selected Research Areas
• 230059 SE B8 Sociology of Sports - Selected Research Areas
• 230060 UE B8 Visiting organizations – Study trips - Sociology in Practice
• 230061 UE B8 Career fields for sociologists in the area of labour, employee participation and social dialogue - Sociology in Practice
• 230062 UE B8 Sociological Career Fields - Research & Think Tanks, NGOs & Public Institutions - Sociology in Practice
• 230063 UE B8 The Sociology of Migration – Between Research, Practice, and Political Debate - Sociology in Practice

B8 Applied Sociology: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

B9 Sociological Theories Consolidation (8 ECTS)

• 230065 VO B9 Sociological Theories: Consolidation - Lecture
• 230066 SE B9 Women founders: Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230068 SE [ en ] B9 Theories on the History, Present and Future of Racism - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230069 SE B9 On the Relationship Between Society and the Individual in Critical Theory - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230070 SE B9 Pierre Bourdieu and Erik Olin Wright: The Analysis of Social Inequality in Contemporary Society - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)

B9 Sociological Theories Consolidation: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 020044 SE ( MIXED ) Philosophy - Kritische Phänomenologie

B10 Quantitative Social Research Consolidation (12 ECTS)

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

B11 Practical Sociological Research Course (12 ECTS)

• 230079 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Researching discrimination experiences and racialisation
• 230080 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: "Toolism" in security - Critical Perspectives on Technologies and Control
• 230081 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Democracy and labour - Practical research in labour sociology
• 230082 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Sports and Leisure Society
• 230083 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Deviance and Social Control among University Students
• 230084 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Security and Society
• 230085 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Klarna + TikTok - Consumption and financial literacy of young adults
• 230086 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: The Future of Love
• 230087 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: On the trail of consumer society

B12 Practice-Oriented Competences (8 ECTS)

• 230090 UE B12 Sociological Writing and Presenting
• 230091 UE B12 Meaning and social responsibility -The search for meaning as an important social competence - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230092 UE B12 Conflict Management in teams - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230093 UE B12 Social and Communicative Competences
• 230094 UE B12 Strategic Career Entry: Designing the Transition from Sociology Studies to the Job Market - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230096 UE B12 Understanding and practicing new stress coping strategies as a resource - Social and Communicative Competences

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

• 230095 SE B13 Bachelor's Seminar

Alternative Extension - Recommended Lectures

• 010041 VO ( MIXED ) Religion and Festivals
• 010063 VO Introduction to Medical Ethics
• 010116 VO Communication and Media Ethics
• 020044 SE ( MIXED ) Philosophy - Kritische Phänomenologie
• 020049 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Lecture series: Religion, Ethics and Politics - Ethics, Emotions and Religion. Varieties of Compassion and Empathy in Historical and Contemporary Contexts
• 030043 VO [ en ] European and Global Legal History
• 030078 VO Lecture Series: "Jews und Jewries in Austria. A Legal History"
• 059110 VO [ en ] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• 060009 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 070245 VO StEOP: Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking
• 070370 VO Lecture Series: Education - Democracy - Inequality
• 160199 VO Lecture with Exercises: Perspectives on Multilingualism
• 210042 VO BAK8: Aesthetics of the Political
• 230018 VO PM2 Population Sociology
• 230019 VO PM1 PM1 Quantitative Empirical Research
• 230503 XV Fine people - Cultural sociological exploration
• 230504 XV Society in the Age of Narcissism
• 280299 VO [ en ] ( CIRCLE-U ) Changing Cities, Changing Societies (Circle U. course) - Lecture Series by the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) in Cooperation with the City of Vienna
• 290056 VO Urban Geography and Regional Planning
• 300058 VO Urban Ecology
• 340412 VO Text and discourse analysis