23.01. Sociology

A. Bachelor Program in Sociology

1. Introductory Phase

STEP 1 Introduction to the Social Sciences

• 230011 VO Basics of Social Theory
• 220060 VO SOWI-STEP 1 - Social Sciences and Social Change
• 220061 VO SOWI-STEP 1 - Basics of Methodology and Social Sciences

STEP 2 Introduction to Social Scientific Work with Emphasis on Sociology

• 230013 VO Introduction to Sociology
• 230014 VO Structure and Development of Modern Societies - Social Change of the Austrian Society
• 230039 PS Proseminar Introduction

2. Compulsory Modules

2.1. Theory

T1 Principles of Sociological Theory

• 230015 VO Theoretical Foundations ("Classics of Sociology")
• 230016 VO Modern Sociological Theory
• 230040 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology")

T2 Specific Sociological Theories and Societal Diagnoses

• 230021 SE Key Texts of Critical Theory
• 230022 SE Seminar on Systems Theory
• 230023 SE Sociological theory: Sennett
• 230024 SE Agency and social order - Grenzen und Potentiale handlungstheoretischer Soziologie
• 230026 SE Social Differenciation
• 230027 SE Pierre Bourdieu
• 230043 VO Diagnoses of Society
• 230044 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230045 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230046 WA Diagnoses of Society: Michel Foucaults analysis of biopower and gouvernementality
• 230047 WA Diagnoses of Society: Globalization
• 230048 WA Diagnoses of Society: Feel well! A Genealogy of Emotions
• 230049 WA Diagnoses of Society

2.2. Methods

M1 Introduction to Empirical Social Research

• 230017 VO Empirical Social Research: Research Process - Research Questions and Research Design: The Logic of Creating Research questions
• 230018 VO Empirical Social Research: Methods
• 230041 UE Methods of Empirical Social Research

M2 Statistical Methods and Mathematics for Sociologists

• 230019 VO Statistics 1 - Vorlesung
• 230042 UE Statistics 1 - Übung

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

• 230028 UE Qualitative Methods: Grounded Theory II
• 230029 UE Qualitative Methods: Participant Observation
• 230030 SE Qualitative Methods: Hermeneutics
• 230031 UE Qualitative Methods: Praxeology II - Concepts and Approaches of Social Practices in Theory and Empirical Research
• 230032 UE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography II
• 230033 UE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography II
• 230034 UE Qualitative Methods: Hermeneutics II

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

• 230020 VO Multivariate Methods
• 230035 UE Data Analysis
• 230036 UE Data Evaluation
• 230037 UE Data Evaluation
• 230038 UE Data Evaluation
• 230154 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230155 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230179 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230180 UE Research Practice: Data Collection

2.3. Applications

A1 Areas of Sociological Research and Application

• 230050 PR Workshop/Excursion
• 230051 PR Workshop/Excursion: Penetration into the Ethnic Communities - Function and Dysfunction of Ethnic Communities
• 230052 PR Workshop/Excursion: Insights into Applied Sociological Research - Einblicke in die Praxis anwendungsorientierter soziologischer Forschung
• 230053 PR Workshop/Excursion: Job Orientation for Students - Beispiele für Arbeitsfelder von SoziologInnen
• 230054 PR Workshop/Excursion: Research for School and Health
• 230159 PR Workshop/Study trips: Career Orientation - Socio-Scientific Research
• 190252 KU Labour Market Orientation - Communication Processes between Laypersons and Experts: Experiencing, Reflecting, Designing
• 190847 SE 5.10.3 Netzwerke für Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung
• 230183 PR Workshop/Excursion: Job Orientation for Students - Beispiele für Arbeitsfelder von SoziologInnen

A2 Selected Specific Sociology

• 230055 VO+SE Class, Stratum, Milieu
• 230056 VO+SE Sociology of Health and Illness
• 230057 VO+SE Sociological Technology Studies - Theories, Methods, Applications
• 230058 VO+SE Sociology of Media and Communication
• 230059 VO+SE Deviance and Social Control
• 230060 VO+SE Environmental Sociology
• 230061 VO+SE Development Sociology - Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie: Theorien, Diskurse, Akteure, Prozesse
• 230062 VO+SE Sociology of Family
• 230156 VO+SE Sociology of Leisure Time and Athletics
• 230157 VO+SE Migration and integration

A3 Project Design and Research Laboratory

• 230130 PR Research Practice II
• 230131 PR Research Practice II - Politische Soziologie
• 230132 FPR Research Practice II

2.4. Law and Economics

• 230063 KU Public Law for Sociologists - Introduction to Constitutional-, Administrative- and European Law
• 230064 KU Economics
• 230065 KU Business Administration - Business Aspects of Sociology

2.5. Communicative and Interpersonal Skills

• 230066 TR Communicative and Social Competences - Overview
• 230067 TR Projectmanagement
• 230068 TR Projectmanagement
• 230069 TR Basics and Academic Working
• 230070 TR Body Language
• 190246 SE Communication culture in university practise and working practise II
• 190218 VK Interdisciplinary Research : from Project Planning to Evaluation
• 230171 UK Communicating Science

3. Elective Social Science Module

• 230071 VO+UE Game Theory
• 230072 VO+UE Mathematics for Sociologists
• 230074 KU Introduction to Demography and Population Sociology
• 230075 UE Introduction to SPSS

B. Master Program in Sociology

1. Compulsory Modules

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-Thesis-Seminar
• 230124 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230125 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230126 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230168 SE New trends in science and technology studies - Reading seminar for doctoral and master students of science and technology studies

F Area of Specialization

• 230169 SE [ en ] Seminar for master and doctoral students of science and technology studies

Area of Specialization: Health and Organization

• 230099 VO What is Health? Sociological Contributions to the Health Sciences
• 230101 VO+SE Health and Gender - Mit Fokus auf die Begriffe Selbstbestimmung und Selbstverantwortung in der gesundheitlichen Vorsorge (Früherkennungsmaßnahmen) aus geschlechtsspezifischer Perspektive
• 230160 SE Seminar on Organisations Theory

Area of Specialization: Culture and Society

• 230106 SE Subjective Experiences of Migration Processes and their Social Scientific Analysis
• 230107 SE Sociological aspects of cultural industry
• 230108 VO+SE Visual Sociology: Theoretical Foundations and Methodical Procedures of Interpretive Picture Analysis
• 230109 VO+SE Sociology of Culture - "The Leisured Classes II"
• 230110 SE Sociologies of the Archive: Remembering, Preserving, Theorizing
• 230111 SE Transnational Families

Area of Specialization: Social Gerontology, Lifespan and Family Research

• 230103 SE Age(ing) - Gender - Body
• 230104 SE Working without ageing - Ageing without working?
• 230105 SE Genderperspectives on Family Violence
• 230163 VO+SE Social Gerontology, Life Course, Intergenerational Relations

Area of Specialization: Social Structure and Social Integration

• 110036 VO [ de it ] Cycle of Lectures - Italienische Beiträge zur sozialen und kulturellen Diversifizierung Wiens
• 230088 VO National European identity - theory and messurement
• 230095 VO+SE Sociology of Money, the Financial Markets and their Impact on Non-Monetary Econ. and Soc. Processes - The Illusion of Economic Growth - the Effective Entropy - the Resulting Imbalanceb - Corruption as Remedy against Mismanagement
• 230096 VO+SE Precarization and social inequality
• 230097 SE Gender sensitive social statistics - How do indicators describe the social situation of women?
• 230098 SE Gender and Globalisation
• 230158 VO+SE The Social Structure of Europe
• 230178 SE National European identity - theory and messurement

M Applied Methods and Research Strategies

• 230081 VO Methodological triangulation and mixed methods
• 230082 VO+UE Specific multivariate methods of analysis in the Social Sciences
• 230083 VO+UE Multivariate analysis of categorical data - Korrespondenzanalyse und Clusteranalyse
• 230084 VO+UE Analysis of Categorical Data
• 230085 SE Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis
• 230086 VO+UE Methods of Evaluation
• 230087 PR Interpreting commercials and musicvideoclips - am Beispiel von Videoclips, Werbeanzeigen und -spots
• 230089 VO+UE Online-Research: Network Analysis
• 230090 PR Quantitative Methods: Index
• 230091 PR Qualitative Methods: Interviewing
• 230092 PR Qualitative Methods: Interviewing
• 230093 PR Coaching of Methods for Diploma- and Master-Theses
• 230164 UE Sampling design, practical allocation procedures and Weighting

T Sociological Theory: Comparison, Application and Construction

• 230076 VO A systematic introduction into the basic ideas of the Sociology of Religion - Eine systematische Einführung
• 230077 VO [ en ] Risk and Society
• 230078 VO+SE Sociological theories and recent developments
• 230079 SE Functional Differentiation and Social Inequality
• 230080 VO+SE Sociological Theories - History of Sociological Theories

2. Compulsory Elective Modules

EF Focus on an Area of Specialization

• 230112 SE Indicators of sustainability in tourism - Datenauswertung einer Feldstudie in Peru

EM Focus on Methods

ET Focus on Sociological Theory

PM Project Management

• 230113 SE Projectmanagement

SM Elective Social Science Module

WK Knowledge Communication

• 190066 SE Between Infotainment and dialog - Drafts of the communication between science and society
• 230114 SE Knowledge Communication - Scientific Writing of Thesis
• 190249 KU Job Orientation for Students II

A. Bachelor Programme (Branch of Study: Human and Cultural Sciences)

First Year

1.1. Introduction to Sociology

• 230011 VO Basics of Social Theory
• 230013 VO Introduction to Sociology
• 230014 VO Structure and Development of Modern Societies - Social Change of the Austrian Society
• 230017 VO Empirical Social Research: Research Process - Research Questions and Research Design: The Logic of Creating Research questions
• 230039 PS Proseminar Introduction

1.2. Basics of Sociology

• 230015 VO Theoretical Foundations ("Classics of Sociology")
• 230016 VO Modern Sociological Theory
• 230018 VO Empirical Social Research: Methods
• 230019 VO Statistics 1 - Vorlesung
• 230041 UE Methods of Empirical Social Research

1.3. Statistics for Sociologists I

• 230042 UE Statistics 1 - Übung

1.4. Training of Key Competences I

• 230069 TR Basics and Academic Working
• 190246 SE Communication culture in university practise and working practise II

Second Year

2.1. Sociological Theories

• 230021 SE Key Texts of Critical Theory
• 230022 SE Seminar on Systems Theory
• 230023 SE Sociological theory: Sennett
• 230024 SE Agency and social order - Grenzen und Potentiale handlungstheoretischer Soziologie
• 230026 SE Social Differenciation
• 230027 SE Pierre Bourdieu

2.2. Sociological Methods

• 230020 VO Multivariate Methods
• 230028 UE Qualitative Methods: Grounded Theory II
• 230030 SE Qualitative Methods: Hermeneutics
• 230031 UE Qualitative Methods: Praxeology II - Concepts and Approaches of Social Practices in Theory and Empirical Research
• 230032 UE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography II
• 230033 UE Qualitative Methods: Ethnography II
• 230034 UE Qualitative Methods: Hermeneutics II
• 230035 UE Data Analysis
• 230036 UE Data Evaluation
• 230037 UE Data Evaluation
• 230038 UE Data Evaluation
• 230154 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230155 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230179 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230180 UE Research Practice: Data Collection

2.3. Sociological Fields of Practice - Special Sociologies

• 230055 VO+SE Class, Stratum, Milieu
• 230056 VO+SE Sociology of Health and Illness
• 230057 VO+SE Sociological Technology Studies - Theories, Methods, Applications
• 230058 VO+SE Sociology of Media and Communication
• 230059 VO+SE Deviance and Social Control
• 230061 VO+SE Development Sociology - Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie: Theorien, Diskurse, Akteure, Prozesse
• 230062 VO+SE Sociology of Family

2.4. Practice Guidance, Part I

2.5. Statistics for Sociologists II

Third Year

3.1. Applied Research

• 230127 SE The 'customer' in non-economic organizations
• 230128 SE Restructuring Complex Organizations
• 230130 PR Research Practice II
• 230131 PR Research Practice II - Politische Soziologie
• 230132 FPR Research Practice II

3.2. Training of Key Compentences II

• 230067 TR Projectmanagement
• 230068 TR Projectmanagement
• 230069 TR Basics and Academic Working
• 230070 TR Body Language
• 190218 VK Interdisciplinary Research : from Project Planning to Evaluation

3.3. Practice Guidance, Part II

• 230129 PB Practice Guidance Part 2: Evaluation and Reflection

Recommended Free Elective Courses

• 230074 KU Introduction to Demography and Population Sociology

Sociological Theories

• 230040 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology")
• 230043 VO Diagnoses of Society
• 230044 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230045 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230046 WA Diagnoses of Society: Michel Foucaults analysis of biopower and gouvernementality
• 230047 WA Diagnoses of Society: Globalization
• 230048 WA Diagnoses of Society: Feel well! A Genealogy of Emotions
• 230049 WA Diagnoses of Society

Sociological Methods

• 230029 UE Qualitative Methods: Participant Observation
• 230075 UE Introduction to SPSS
• 190250 KU Basics of Social Network Analysis II

Sociological Practice Fields - Special Sociologies

• 230176 SE [ en ] Race, class and gender in biomedical discourse
• 040313 VK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM II
• 040314 EK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM I
• 040408 VK KFK IndM/MAR/ORGA: Sociology of Organisations
• 110036 VO [ de it ] Cycle of Lectures - Italienische Beiträge zur sozialen und kulturellen Diversifizierung Wiens

Theories of Science and Scientific Research

• 230165 VO Technology and Society: Introduction to Social Studies of Science
• 230166 KO Technology and Society
• 230167 SE Institutions, Disciplines, Careers: Changing Knowledge Cultures
• 230170 UK The construction of scientific facts - A social science excursion into the natural sciences
• 230172 UK Risk and Society: How society deals with techno-scientific uncertainties
• 230173 SE [ en ] Cyberscience: The internet in the scientific field
• 230174 SE Networks and cooperations: on working together in science
• 230175 SE [ en ] Biomedicine and society: a perspective from the social sciences

Additional Free Elective Courses

C. Diploma Programme Sociology (Branch of Study: Law, Social Sciences and Economics)

First Stage of the Degree Programme

1.1. Theories and Applications

• 230013 VO Introduction to Sociology
• 230014 VO Structure and Development of Modern Societies - Social Change of the Austrian Society
• 230015 VO Theoretical Foundations ("Classics of Sociology")
• 230039 PS Proseminar Introduction
• 230040 UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology")
• 230074 KU Introduction to Demography and Population Sociology

1.2. Methods

• 230018 VO Empirical Social Research: Methods
• 230019 VO Statistics 1 - Vorlesung
• 230041 UE Methods of Empirical Social Research
• 230042 UE Statistics 1 - Übung

1.3. Optional Courses in Law and Economics

• 230063 KU Public Law for Sociologists - Introduction to Constitutional-, Administrative- and European Law
• 230064 KU Economics
• 230065 KU Business Administration - Business Aspects of Sociology

1.3.1. Economics

1.3.2. Business Administration

1.3.3. Public Law, Labour and Social Law

1.3.4. Political Science

Second Stage of the Degree Programme

• 230635 PS Sociological Practice - special topics: - - migration - -

2.1. Theories and Applications

• 220061 VO SOWI-STEP 1 - Basics of Methodology and Social Sciences
• 230021 SE Key Texts of Critical Theory
• 230022 SE Seminar on Systems Theory
• 230023 SE Sociological theory: Sennett
• 230024 SE Agency and social order - Grenzen und Potentiale handlungstheoretischer Soziologie
• 230026 SE Social Differenciation
• 230027 SE Pierre Bourdieu
• 230043 VO Diagnoses of Society
• 230044 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230045 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230046 WA Diagnoses of Society: Michel Foucaults analysis of biopower and gouvernementality
• 230047 WA Diagnoses of Society: Globalization
• 230048 WA Diagnoses of Society: Feel well! A Genealogy of Emotions
• 230049 WA Diagnoses of Society
• 230095 VO+SE Sociology of Money, the Financial Markets and their Impact on Non-Monetary Econ. and Soc. Processes - The Illusion of Economic Growth - the Effective Entropy - the Resulting Imbalanceb - Corruption as Remedy against Mismanagement
• 230098 SE Gender and Globalisation
• 230105 SE Genderperspectives on Family Violence
• 230111 SE Transnational Families

2.2. Methods

• 230154 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230155 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230179 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230180 UE Research Practice: Data Collection
• 230035 UE Data Analysis
• 230036 UE Data Evaluation
• 230037 UE Data Evaluation
• 230038 UE Data Evaluation
• 230071 VO+UE Game Theory
• 230072 VO+UE Mathematics for Sociologists
• 230133 UE Table Analysis

2.3. Elective Courses in Law and Economics

Third Stage of the Degree Programme

3.1. Theories and Applications

3.3.1. Sociological Theories

• 230078 VO+SE Sociological theories and recent developments
• 230079 SE Functional Differentiation and Social Inequality
• 230080 VO+SE Sociological Theories - History of Sociological Theories

3.3.2. Applied Sociology (Fields of Practice)

• 230055 VO+SE Class, Stratum, Milieu
• 230056 VO+SE Sociology of Health and Illness
• 230057 VO+SE Sociological Technology Studies - Theories, Methods, Applications
• 230058 VO+SE Sociology of Media and Communication
• 230059 VO+SE Deviance and Social Control
• 230060 VO+SE Environmental Sociology
• 230061 VO+SE Development Sociology - Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie: Theorien, Diskurse, Akteure, Prozesse
• 230062 VO+SE Sociology of Family
• 040313 VK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM II
• 040314 EK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM I
• 040408 VK KFK IndM/MAR/ORGA: Sociology of Organisations
• 230088 VO National European identity - theory and messurement
• 230178 SE National European identity - theory and messurement
• 230096 VO+SE Precarization and social inequality
• 230097 SE Gender sensitive social statistics - How do indicators describe the social situation of women?
• 230098 SE Gender and Globalisation
• 230099 VO What is Health? Sociological Contributions to the Health Sciences
• 230101 VO+SE Health and Gender - Mit Fokus auf die Begriffe Selbstbestimmung und Selbstverantwortung in der gesundheitlichen Vorsorge (Früherkennungsmaßnahmen) aus geschlechtsspezifischer Perspektive
• 230103 SE Age(ing) - Gender - Body
• 230104 SE Working without ageing - Ageing without working?
• 230105 SE Genderperspectives on Family Violence
• 230106 SE Subjective Experiences of Migration Processes and their Social Scientific Analysis
• 230107 SE Sociological aspects of cultural industry
• 230108 VO+SE Visual Sociology: Theoretical Foundations and Methodical Procedures of Interpretive Picture Analysis
• 230109 VO+SE Sociology of Culture - "The Leisured Classes II"
• 230110 SE Sociologies of the Archive: Remembering, Preserving, Theorizing
• 230111 SE Transnational Families
• 230112 SE Indicators of sustainability in tourism - Datenauswertung einer Feldstudie in Peru
• 230158 VO+SE The Social Structure of Europe
• 230160 SE Seminar on Organisations Theory
• 230163 VO+SE Social Gerontology, Life Course, Intergenerational Relations

3.3.4.1. Political Sociology

• 040313 VK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM II
• 040314 EK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM I

3.3.4.2. Technical Sociology

3.3.4.3. Sociology of Work and Economics

• 040313 VK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM II
• 040314 EK KFK IndM: Labour Relations and HRM I

3.3.4.4. Social Structure Research

3.3.4.5. Socialgerontology

3.3.4.6. Sociology of Developing Countries

3.3.4.7. Sociology Curriculum Vitae

3.3.4.8. Sociology of International Relations

3.3.4.9. Urban Sociology

3.3.4.10. Sociology of Migration

3.3.4.11. Sociology of Leisure, Sports and Tourism

3.3.4.12. Traffic Sociology

3.3.4.13. Sociology of Culture

3.3.3. Research Laboratory

• 230134 PR Housing culture and living styles in the life course
• 230135 PR Research Lab: Sociology of Vienna
• 230136 PR Research Lab: Design and Implementation of an Online Student Panel

3.3.4. Seminar for Diploma Candidates

• 230140 SE Diploma Thesis Seminar
• 230141 SE Diploma Thesis Seminar
• 230142 SE Diploma 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-Thesis-Seminar
• 230124 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230125 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar
• 230126 SE Master-Thesis-Seminar

3.2. Methods

• 230029 UE Qualitative Methods: Participant Observation
• 230082 VO+UE Specific multivariate methods of analysis in the Social Sciences
• 230083 VO+UE Multivariate analysis of categorical data - Korrespondenzanalyse und Clusteranalyse
• 230084 VO+UE Analysis of Categorical Data
• 230086 VO+UE Methods of Evaluation
• 230088 VO National European identity - theory and messurement
• 230089 VO+UE Online-Research: Network Analysis
• 230113 SE Projectmanagement
• 230137 UE Itemanalysis, Scaling and Index Construction
• 230178 SE National European identity - theory and messurement

3.3. Courses in Law and Economics

Free Elective Courses

• 230074 KU Introduction to Demography and Population Sociology
• 230138 SE Migration and career

Research Privatissimum

• 040384 SE Research Privatissimum in Sociology

B. Master Programme (Branch of Study: Human and Cultural Sciences)