B. Master Program in Sociology

1. Compulsory Modules

T Sociological Theory: Comparison, Application and Construction

• 230037 VO Current Sociological Theory: Sociology as Critique
• 230015 SE Social Facts - Emile Durkheim's Conception of Sociology
• 230092 VO+SE Basic Problems of Sociological Theories
• 230093 VO+SE Jürgen Habermas - A sociological Theory of Modernitiy. Basic Concept and Aspects of a Diagnosis of the Present

M Applied Methods and Research Strategies

• 230143 VO Quantitative Methods
• 230038 VO+UE Multivariate Analysis of Categorical Data
• 230094 VO+UE Introduction to Evalation Research
• 230039 VO+UE Cross-Cultural/Cross-National Survey Research
• 230099 VO+UE Online-Research: Network Analysis
• 230042 VO+UE Structural Equation Modeling with Observed and Latent Variables
• 230095 SE Interpretive Picture Analysis - a Methodical Approach
• 230096 SE Focus Groups
• 230049 PR Quantitative Methods: Index
• 230051 PR Quantitative Methods: Conjoint-Analysis
• 230040 PR Coaching of Methods for Diploma- and Master-Theses
• 230097 PR Triangulation of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
• 230098 PR Qualitative Methods: Interviewing
• 230178 PR Qualitative Methods: Analysing Data with AtlasTI
• 210075 UE [ en ] M2/Diss: UE Special topics in Social netork Analysis (engl.) - Measurement problems and Applications of SNA
• 210076 UE [ en ] M2/Diss: UE Social Network Anaysis with Pajek (engl.)
• 210077 UE [ en ] M2/Diss: UE Multivariate Statistics (engl.)
• 230183 SE The Expert Interview in Social Sciences: Theory, Composition and Analysis
• 230184 SE Multiple Linear Regression

F Area of Specialization

Area of Specialization: Health and Organization

• 230044 VO Organisational Theories
• 230061 SE Seminar on Organisations Theory - The Systems Theoretical Approach
• 230108 VO+SE Sociology of Police
• 230109 SE Health Promotion in organizational settings
• 230110 VO+SE Health an Gender: With Special Emphasis on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Gender Aspects
• 230111 VO+SE The Debacle of Finance Aristocracy: Sociology of the Bank Crisis

Area of Specialization: Culture and Society

• 230111 VO+SE The Debacle of Finance Aristocracy: Sociology of the Bank Crisis
• 230142 VO+SE Visual Mediaculture in Theory and Empirical Studies 1
• 230145 SE Taste, Lifestyle And Social Inequality
• 230155 SE Intersectional approaches of critical masculinity studies - Sociological theories and research perspectives

Area of Specialization: Social Gerontology, Lifespan and Family Research

• 230043 VO Family and Ageing in Postmodern Society
• 230059 VO Family and Society in Europe
• 230060 SE Parenthood in Modernity
• 230102 VO+SE Social Gerontology, Life Course, Intergenerational Relations
• 230106 SE Families in Transition

Area of Specialization: Social Structure and Social Integration

• 230076 SE Social Division in the City - Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Segregation and Gentrification
• 230101 FPR Poverty
• 230103 VO+SE Sociology of Social Work - zwischen (Re-) Inklusionsermöglichung und Exklusionsverwaltung
• 230144 SE Discrimination, Inequalities and Integration in the Austrian Labour Market - Specific Measures of Active Labour Market Policy
• 230104 SE [ de en ] Migration in Comparative Perspective

Area of Specialization: Studies of Science

• 230165 VO Institutions and Social Structures of Science: Introduction to the Social Studies of Science I
• 230166 KO Institutions and Social Structures of Science
• 230164 SE [ en ] Visiting "the laboratories" of social sciences: research contexts, methods and questions
• 230170 SE [ en ] Collaboration and competition: On forms and formats of being together in science
• 230171 SE [ en ] On the Co-Construction of Techno-Scientific Futures and Society
• 230163 SE [ en ] Science Cultures: A closer look at research-in-the-making
• 230180 SE [ en ] Science, Technology and Development - Global science in the Information Age

AR Master Thesis Seminar

• 230115 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230116 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230117 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230118 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230119 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230120 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230121 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230122 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230123 SE Master's Seminar Social Stratification Research
• 230124 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230152 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230153 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230173 SE Seminar for master and doctoral students of science and technology studies
• 040512 SE Research Privatissimum in Sociology

2. Compulsory Elective Modules

EF Focus on an Area of Specialization

• 230174 SE [ en ] Reading seminar for PhD and advanced Master Students in Social Studies of Science

EM Focus on Methods

ET Focus on Sociological Theory

PM Project Management

• 230112 SE Projectmanagement
• 230150 SE Projectmanagement

SM Elective Social Science Module

• 230162 SE [ en ] Scientific Practice and Knowledge Management
• 230163 SE [ en ] Science Cultures: A closer look at research-in-the-making
• 230164 SE [ en ] Visiting "the laboratories" of social sciences: research contexts, methods and questions
• 230165 VO Institutions and Social Structures of Science: Introduction to the Social Studies of Science I
• 230166 KO Institutions and Social Structures of Science
• 230170 SE [ en ] Collaboration and competition: On forms and formats of being together in science
• 230171 SE [ en ] On the Co-Construction of Techno-Scientific Futures and Society
• 230174 SE [ en ] Reading seminar for PhD and advanced Master Students in Social Studies of Science
• 230180 SE [ en ] Science, Technology and Development - Global science in the Information Age

WK Knowledge Communication

• 230114 UE Knowledge Communication - Scientific Writing of Thesis
• 230290 UE Wissenschaftskommunikation - wissenschaftliches Schreiben und kommunizieren