Universität Wien
Warning! The directory is not yet complete and will be amended until the beginning of the term.

240007 VO Introduction in forms of social organization (2020S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
Register/Deregister for this course

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 09.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 16.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 23.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 30.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 20.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 27.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 04.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 11.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 18.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 25.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 08.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 15.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 22.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Monday 29.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Aim
The aim of the course is to give an overview of different forms of social organisation (for example, houses and households, kinship, Gender and generation) as well as processes of their (re)production).
Content
Social organisation entails the coordination of human activity in time and space. In different societies diverse units and principles gain meaning that become translated in more or less stabile structures. The meaning of categories such as age, gender, descent, is not given but must be constantly produced and reproduced in interaction. In these processes of social organisation the attribution of reciprocal care obligations is an essential element. Therefore, the diversity of processes of social organisation is at the centre of this course. Starting with an overview of different basic units such as houses and households, age and generation, forms of kinship, a view on political belongings (locality, state, nation) is developed.

Assessment and permitted materials

Online Multiple-Choice-Prüfung auf Moodle über den vorgetragenen Stoff sowie die Pflichtlektüre nach Ende der Vorlesung
1.Termin: 29. Juni 2020, 15:00-16:30
2. Termin: 13. Juli 2020, 15:00-16:30
3. Termin: 30. Oktober 2020, 15:00-16:30
(insgesamt 4 Termine, 1 weiterer Termin folgt im WS 2020/21)

36 Fragen zu je 1 Punkt / insgesamt 36 zu erreichende Punkte
Jede/r Studierende hat 60 Minuten Zeit, um die Fragen zu beantworten. Die Zeitrechnung läuft für jede Person individuell, ab dem Moment, in dem sie die Prüfung startet.
Die Prüfung wird in einem separaten Prüfungs-Moodle-Kurs stattfinden, der nach Abschluss der Anmeldungen erstellt wird, und nicht im normalen Moodle-Kurs der Vorlesung.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Lesen und Aneignen der Pflichtlektüre, Aneignen der mündlich vorgetragenen LV-Inhalte
Erreichen von mindestens 50% der Punkte in der Klausur zum erfolgreichen Bestehen

100,00% - 87,00% = Sehr Gut
86,99% - 75,00% = Gut
74,99% - 63,00% = Befriedigend
62,99% - 50,00% = Genügend
49,99% - 00,00% = Nicht Genügend

Examination topics

Der Prüfungsstoff besteht in den in der VL vorgetragenen Inhalte sowie der Pflichtlektüre

Reading list

Pflichtlektüre sowie weiterführende Literatur wird in der LV bzw. auf der moodle Plattform bekannt gegeben.
Die gesammelte Pflichtlektüre ist in Form eines Readers bei Facultas erhältlich und besteht aus folgenden Einzelbeiträgen:

Besky, Sarah. 2017. Fixity: On the inheritance and maintenance of tea plantation
houses in Darjeeling, India. American Anthropologist 44( 4): 617-631.

Thelen, Tatjana. 2015. Care as social organization: Creating, maintaining and
dissolving significant relations. Anthropological Theory 15 (4): 497-515.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 1995. Gender and Age (Kapitel 8), in ders.: Small Places,
Large Issues. London: Pluto, 124-141.

McIntosh, Janet, 2017. Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On being Old in a
Century of Declning Elderhood in Kenya. In: Sarah Lamb (Hrsg.) Successful Aging,
Rutgers University Press, 185- 199.

Hendry, Joy. 1999. Family, Kinship and Marriage (Kapitel 11), in dies.: Anintroduction
to Social Anthropology, MacMillan: 207-235.

Carsten, Janet. 1995. The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: Feeding,
Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi. American Ethnologist 22 (2): 223-241.

Simpson, Bob. 2006. Scrambling Parenthood. Anthropology Today 22: 1-4.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. 2006. The Nuer of the Southern Sudan, in Fortes, M. /
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (eds.): African Political Systems. London: Oxford University
Press: 272-296.

Zitelmann, Thomas. 2017. Kinship Weaponized: Representations of Kinship and
Binary Othering in U.S. Military Anthropology. In: Thelen, Tatjana / Alber, Erdmute
(eds.). Reconnecting State and Kinship. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press:
61-86.

Street, Alice. 2012. Seen by the state: Bureaucracy, visibility and governmentality in a
Papua New Guinean hospital. Australian Journal of Anthropology 23: 1-21.

La Fontaine, Jean. 1986. Invisible Custom: Public Lectures as ceremonials.
Anthropology Today 2 (5): 3-9.

Ellmer, Anna. 2020 (im Erscheinen). Caring for equality? Administering ambivalence
in kindergarten. Sociologus 70(1): 39-55.

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20