Bachelor Sociology (505 [3] - Version 2024)

Orientierungsveranstaltung(en) für Studienanfänger*innen

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

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

• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) B1 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 KU ( OV STEOP ) Preparatory Course: STEOP Module Exam - Subject-Specific Introduction to Sociology

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: Karl Marx and the Beginning of Sociological Theory of Society - Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230008 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230009 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230010 UE B4 Guided Reading: Hybrid Masculinities oscillating conceptions of masculinities
• 230011 UE B4 Guided Reading: Thinking Democracy
• 230012 UE [ en ] B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230013 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230014 UE B4 Guided Reading: Classics of Sociological Texts
• 230015 UE B4 Guided Reading: Interactionist Sociology

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

• 230020 VO B5 Statistics in Sociology 1 - 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 1 - Excercise
• 230024 UE B5 Statistics in Sociology 2 - Excercise

B6 Societal Analyses (12 ECTS)

• 230025 VO B6 Diagnosis of Society
• 230027 SE [ en ] B6 Gender Inequality over the Life Course - Current Societal Developments
• 230028 SE B6 Queer Politics - Current Societal Developments
• 230029 SE B6 Migration, Generations, and Memory in Public and Private Archives - Current Societal Developments
• 230030 SE B6 Migration and Dwelling: Social Dynamics in Heterogeneous Neighborhoods - Current Societal Developments
• 230031 SE B6 From Swifties to BookTok: Sociological Perspectives on Girl Cultures in Popular Culture - Current Societal Developments
• 230032 SE B6 Claims to the City: Power and Control in Urban Public Spaces - Current Societal Developments

B6 Societal Analyses: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

• 233002 UK Wissen, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft: Wie sozial ist wissenschaftliches Wissen? - Eine Einführung in die Science and Technology Studies
• 233003 UK Internationale Raumfahrt - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Innovation, Politik und Gesellschaft im neuen 'Space Race'
• 233004 UK Wissenschaft, Technik, und Geschlecht - Welche Rolle spielen Sex and Gender in Wissensproduktion und Innovation?

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 Reconstructive Social Research and Documentary Method - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230038 UE B7 Biographical research - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230039 UE B7 Ethnography - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230040 UE B7 Objective Hermeneutics - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230041 UE B7 RDiscourse Analysis - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
• 230042 UE B7 "Are we allowed to do that?" - Ethical challenges and guidelines in qualitative research - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230043 UE B7 Participating and Observing - Training in participant observation and observing participation - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230044 UE B7 Multilingualism in qualitative research - Focus on interviews - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230045 UE B7 Advanced knowledge in the theory and practice of selected types of interviews - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)
• 230046 UE B7 Qualitative research with young people - Qualititative Research Methods: Consolidation (Exercise)

B8 Applied Sociology (12 ECTS)

• 230050 SE B8 Family Sociology - Selected Research Areas
• 230051 SE B8 Sociology of Sports - Selected Research Areas
• 230052 SE B8 Urban Sociology - Selected Research Areas
• 230053 SE B8 Sociology of Gender - Selected Research Areas
• 230054 SE B8 Sociology of Emotions - Selected Research Areas
• 230055 SE B8 Sociology of Youth - Selected Research Areas
• 230056 SE B8 Sociology of Culture - On the Sociology of Music - Selected Research Areas
• 230057 SE B8 Sociology of Health - Selected Research Areas
• 230058 SE B8 Sociology of Religion - Selected Research Areas
• 230059 SE B8 Sociology of Migration - Selected Research Areas
• 230060 SE B8 Criminal Sociology - Selected Research Areas
• 230061 UE B8 Sociological Career Fields - Research & Think Tanks, NGOs & Public Institutions - Sociology in Practice
• 230062 UE B8 Housing crises and homelessness in Vienna - Sociology in Practice
• 230063 UE B8 Sociology of Social Work A practice field of social science - Sociology in Practice
• 230064 UE B8 Sociology of poverty and (social) aid - Sociology in Practice

B8 Applied Sociology: Recommended Lectures of other Departments

B9 Sociological Theories Consolidation (8 ECTS)

• 230066 SE B9 Social Policy in Europe: History and Theory - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230067 SE B9 A market for labor: A social institution and its form - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230068 SE B9 Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism - Sociological Theories: Consolidation (Seminar)
• 230069 SE B9 Sociology of resentment - 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 2: Klarna + TikTok. Financial literacy of young adults
• 230076 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Solving Social Problems - Comparing Their Construction and Management
• 230077 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: Communicative AI and Artificial Companionship
• 230078 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 2: From finding a partner to everyday family life - Analyses with the Generations & Gender Survey
• 230079 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Researching discrimination experiences and racialisation
• 230080 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: "Toolism" in security - Critical Perspectives on Technologies and Control
• 230081 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Democracy and labour - Practical research in labour sociology
• 230082 PR B11 Sociological Research Practice 1: Sports and Leisure Society

B12 Practice-Oriented Competences (8 ECTS)

• 230090 UE B12 Sociological Writing and Presenting
• 230091 UE B12 Life- and careerplanning for students - Personal competences and self-coaching - 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 Conflict Management - Social and Communicative Competences
• 230094 UE B12 Participatory and co-creative work in teams and groups - Social and Communicative Competences

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

• 230095 SE B13 Bachelor's Seminar

Alternative Extension - Recommended Lectures

• 010022 VO Medical Law for Non-Lawyers
• 020015 VO-L [ en ] ( MIXED ) Cultural History of Christianity - Kulturgeschichte u. Denkmäler des Christentums
• 090117 PS [ en ] Law and Society in Byzantium
• 090118 PS [ en ] Sociolinguistics and Modern Greek Studies
• 230501 UE Table Analysis and SPSS
• 230504 XV Sociology of Marginal Cultures
• 230505 XV The relationship between art and society - Hegel's prediction
• 240010 VO BM5 Woman - Gender - Difference.From the decentering of gender to the decentering of the human being - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologische Debatten
• 240218 VO Introduction to Gender Specific Communication and Organization Skills - Wo ist denn hier das Geschlecht?