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230124 SE Selected Paradigms: Sociological Empiricism and the Theory of Action (2019W)

The Austrian Contribution to Modern Sociology

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 08.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 15.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 22.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 29.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 05.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 19.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 26.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 07.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 14.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 21.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 28.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 3, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Until the 1930s, Vienna was the capital of science. Even in the 1930s, when the National Socialists had seized power in Germany, lively discussions about the foundations of modern, methodologically based sociology developed in and outside the universities. In the seminars of the jurist Kelsen and the economist von Mises, but also in the debates of the Viennese circle around Otto Neurath, ideas developed about the strictly scientific foundation of sociology, which at that time had not yet been institutionalized as a subject in Austria. Alfred Schütz, Felix Kaufmann or Erich Voegelin, all of whom were rather marginally connected with the University of Vienna, succeeded in continuing these ideas in the debate with Max Weber and Georg Simmel against the backdrop of modern phenomenology and the modernization process in Austria, which was now beginning to take off violently. In dealing with the consequences of modernization, Paul Lazarsfeld and his colleagues (Marie Jahoda, Hans Zeisel) were able to translate theoretical conceptual work into empirical research, thus becoming pioneers of empirical social research.

Assessment and permitted materials

Presence and participation: 10%
Presentation: 30%
Seminar Paper: 60%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Presence (max. 3x absence)
Handout of the presentation
Submission of seminar paper

Examination topics

Reading list

Fleck, Christian. 1990. Rund Um "Marienthal": Von Den Anfängen Der Soziologie in Österreich Bis Zu Ihrer Vertreibung. Wien: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik.

Fleck, Christian. 2015. "Sociology in Austria: From Gifted Amateurs to Institutional Banality." Irish Journal of Sociology 23(1):83-97.

Langer, Josef, ed. 1988. Geschichte Der Österreichischen Soziologie: Konstituierung, Entwicklung Und Europäische Bezüge. Wien: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik.

Knoll, Reinhold, Gerhard Majce, Hilde Weiss and Georg Wieser. 1981. "Der Österreichische Beitrag Zur Soziologie Der Jahrhundertwende Bis 1938." Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie SH 23:59-101.

Mikl-Horke, Gertraude. 2011. Soziologie : Historischer Kontext Und Soziologische Theorie-Entwürfe, Vol. 6. München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Moebius, Stephan and Andrea Ploder, eds. 2018. Handbuch Geschichte Der Deutschsprachigen Soziologie. Band 1: Geschichte Der Soziologie Im Deutschsprachigen Raum. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Association in the course directory

in 505: BA T2 SE zu ausgewählten Paradigmen

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