A. Bachelor Program in Sociology

1. Introductory Phase

STEP 1 Introduction to the Social Sciences

• 230072 VO Basics of Social Theory
• 230073 VO Basics of Theory in Social Sciences
• 230074 VO Social Sciences and Social Changes: Contemporary Debates

STEP 2 Introduction to Social Scientific Work with Emphasis on Sociology

• 230076 VO Structure and Development of Mordern Societies - Social Change of the Austrian Society
• 230077 PS Introduction to Sociology and Scientific Practices

2. Compulsory Modules

2.1. Theory

T1 Principles of Sociological Theory

• 230078 VO Theoretical Foundations ("Classics of Sociology")
• 230143 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology")
• 230144 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology") - Social Action and Social Structure
• 230145 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology") - From the Discovery of Social Structure through the World Civil War of Ideologists

T2 Specific Sociological Theories and Societal Diagnoses

• 230080 VO Selected Paradigms of Sociological Theory - Exemplified in the Field of Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
• 230082 SE Queer Theories in the Social Sciences: African, Asian and Latin American Approaches
• 230083 SE Pierre Bourdieu
• 230084 SE Interpretive Paradigm - Meaning and Agency, Interaction and Construction
• 230085 SE The Sociology of Emotions
• 230086 SE Theory of Social Systems
• 230087 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230088 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230147 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230170 SE SE Social Differenciation and Georg Simmel

2.2. Methods

M1 Introduction to Empirical Social Research

• 230089 UE Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung - Übung

M2 Statistical Methods and Mathematics for Sociologists

• 230090 VO Statistics 2
• 230091 UE Statistics 2 for Sociologists
• 230092 UE Table Analysis

M3 Discussion and Guided Application of Qualitative Approaches, Methods and Procdures

• 230093 VO Introduction to Qualitative Methods
• 230094 SE Qualitative Methods: Grounded Theory I
• 230095 UE Participant Observation: Sociology of Waste
• 230096 SE Qualitative Methods: Praxeology I - Concepts and Approaches of Social Practices in Theory and Empirical Research
• 230097 UE Qualitative Research: Photoanalyses
• 230098 SE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography I
• 230099 UE Qualitative Methods: Interviewing
• 230101 SE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography I
• 230103 SE Qualitative Methods: Hermeneutics I

M4 Discussion and Guided Application of Quantitative Approaches, Methods and Procedures

• 230105 VO Quantitative Methods in Social Research
• 230106 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230107 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230109 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230112 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230062 UE Table Analysis
• 230063 UE Itemanalysis, Scaling and Index Construction
• 230163 VO+UE Structural Equation Models with Longitudinal Data

2.3. Applications

A1 Areas of Sociological Research and Application

• 230113 VO Applied Sociology - An Overview
• 230114 PR Penetration into the Ethnic Communities - Function and Dysfunction of Ethnic Communities
• 230115 PR Psychiatric Examination - As an Example: Mental Institution
• 230116 PR Insights into Applied Sociological Research
• 230117 PR Biographical Research: Theory and Research Practices
• 230159 PR Career Orientation: Socio-Scientific Research
• 190215 VK Job Orientation for Students I - (Social and Natural Science)

A2 Selected Specific Sociology

• 230118 VO+SE Social Structure and Inequality
• 230119 VO+SE Organizational Sociology
• 230120 VO+SE [ en ] Urban Sociology
• 230121 VO+SE Sociology of the Arts
• 230122 VO+SE Sociology of Culture - " The Leisured Classes"
• 230124 VO+SE Basics of Traffic Sociology
• 230148 VO+SE Alter, Lebenslauf und Generationen
• 140316 VO Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie
• 230149 VO Science, politics, and publics: Introduction to Social Studies of Science
• 230150 KO Science, politics, and publics
• 230151 UK Observing science from a different perspective

A3 Project Design and Research Laboratory

• 230054 FPR Research Practice I
• 230055 FPR Research Practice I
• 230056 FPR Research Practice I
• 230058 FPR Research Practice II

2.4. Law and Economics

• 230125 KU Public Law for Sociologists - Introduction to Constitutional-, Administrative- and European Law
• 230126 KU Volkswirtschaftstheorie
• 230127 KU Business Administration - Business Aspects of Sociology

2.5. Communicative and Interpersonal Skills

• 230128 TR Communicative and Social Competences - Overview
• 230129 TR Projectmanagement
• 230130 TR Body Language
• 230131 TR Conflict Management in Teams
• 230132 TR Group Dynamics
• 230133 TR Basics and academic Working
• 190216 VK Communication Culture at Universites and at Work I
• 230169 TR Team Building

3. Elective Social Science Module

• 230134 VO+UE Network Analysis
• 230135 VO+UE Population Sociology
• 230136 UE Introduction to SPSS
• 230157 UK Trust, fraud and fabrication: Social Aspects of Knowledge Production
• 230158 SE [ en ] Values and Facts in Science and Society
• 190219 VK Basics of Social Network Analysis I
• 230172 UE Introduction to SPSS