Course Catalog

Study Program WiSe 2022/2023

Soziologie, B.A.

Wahlbereich

Studierende des Vollfachs und des Profilfachs können Leistungen aus folgenden Bereichen erbringen:
Module aus dem Wahlpflichtbereich (Spezielle Soziologien), die zuvor nicht belegt wurden
Seminare aus dem Pflichtbereich (FEM, Gesellschaftstheorie, Sozialtheorie), die zuvor nicht belegt wurden
General Studies Angebot aus dem BA Soziologie
General Studies Angebot aus dem Fachbereich 8 / Sozialwissenschaften
Angebote der fächerergänzenden Studien der Universität Bremen (zu finden unter: Veranstaltungsverzeichnis Universität Bremen)

Studierende des Vollfachs können zusätzlich Leistungen aus folgenden Bereichen erbringen:
General Studies Angebot anderer Fächer
Module anderer Fächer der Universität Bremen (zu finden unter: Veranstaltungsverzeichnis Universität Bremen)

Studierende des Komplementärfachs können Leistungen aus folgenden Bereichen erbringen:
Module aus dem Wahlpflichtbereich (Spezielle Soziologien), die zuvor nicht belegt wurden
Module des Pflichtbereichs des BA Studiengangs Soziologie (Statistik/Methoden I, Statistik/Methoden II)
Seminare aus dem Modul Gesellschaftstheorie und Sozialtheorie
General Studies Angebot aus dem BA Soziologie

General Studies Angebot aus dem BA Soziologie

Ergänzung und Vertiefung Soziologischer Theorie

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-29-GS-10Introduction to Sociology in English (in English)
[Soziologie auf Englisch]

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 3/6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 09:00 - 12:00 GW2 B2880 (2 Teaching hours per week)

This course is a seminar that introduces students to the study of Sociology. Sociology is the study of the way institutions structure how individuals live as well as the way individuals structure those same institutions. It seeks to ask and examine questions like: What is a society? How have societies developed over time? How and why are different societies more or less equal? This course seeks to examine these questions in ways that provide an introduction to the field of sociology. It focuses on a broad range of theory and research showing how sociologists think about and study these questions.

We have three goals for this course. The first is to provide you with a general overview of the discipline of Sociology. We will explore various social phenomena and discuss the explanations and interpretations of these phenomena offered by sociologists. The second goal is to understand how to look at the social world with a sociological thinking. We will explore what makes sociology different from other types of sciences and how sociologists seek to understand the world. The third goal is to improve your ability to discuss scientific ideas in the common international language of modern scientific publication and discussion, which is English.

Dr. Mandy Boehnke
Dariya Koleva
Gonzalo Arevalo Iglesias

Ergänzung und Vertiefung Spezieller Soziologien

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-29-GS-20Women, Work, and Family in the Global South (in English)
[Frauen, Arbeit und Familien im Globalen Süden]

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 10:00 - 12:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3) (2 Teaching hours per week)

Additional dates:
Mon. 07.11.22 08:00 - 10:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 14.11.22 08:00 - 10:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 21.11.22 08:00 - 10:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 09.01.23 10:00 - 12:00 online

Women often play two roles: as mothers, they are expected to take the main responsibility for childcare and as workers, they ensure their family’s economic survival. Not only do these two roles conflict with each other, they also influence one another. The gendered perception of care responsibilities in a society shapes the employment opportunities of women in the labor market as well as guides the development of family policies that support mothers in paid labor. Conversely, the unequal treatment of women workers shapes family’s decision about the division of childcare responsibilities. Women in the Global South face greater challenges to reconcile childcare and paid labor in comparison to women in the Global North. Due to the prevalent poverty and even starvation in the Global South, mothers are forced to engage in paid labor despite their childcare responsibilities. States in the Global South also fail to provide support through parental leave, public childcare, and family allowance to the majority of women workers. This seminar will provide an overview of economic opportunities and women’s family position in the Global South, and explore the demographic and economic variables that shape women’s two roles.

Keonhi Son
08-29-GS-21Global Development of Family Policies (in English)
[Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Familienpolitik]

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 14:00 - 16:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3) (2 Teaching hours per week)

Additional dates:
Mon. 14.11.22 16:00 - 18:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 21.11.22 16:00 - 18:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 28.11.22 16:00 - 18:00 UNICOM 3.3380 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3)
Mon. 09.01.23 14:00 - 16:00 online

In contemporary societies, family does not only belong to the private realm. Modern states actively interfere in the matters of family in the areas such as childcare and long-term care. Various policies exist with the intention to unburden individual’s family responsibilities: leave policies, public childcare services, family allowance, and public long-term care. However, states tend to implement different sets of policies with different levels of benefit, depending on socio-economic factors, cultural attitudes toward the family and gender roles, the influence of international organizations, and existing constellations of welfare policies. This seminar will provide a comparison of family policies across the world from a macro-perspective, and explore the determinants of the different constellations of family policies.

Keonhi Son
08-29-GS-22Internet and Social Media (in English)
[Internet und Social Media]

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 UNICOM 3.3390 (SOCIUM - Mary-Somerville-Str. 3) (2 Teaching hours per week)

Since the end of the 20th century, internet and social media fundamentally change interpersonal communication. In the seminar, we survey the different platforms with their qualities and their consequences for the social world. This concerns the following questions:
- What are differences between online and offline social life, and do they relate to each other?
- What kinds of internet platforms are there?
- How do internet and social media affect the construction of personal identities and social relationships?
- How does the internet change political communication? Does it foster filter bubbles and echo chambers as drivers of political polarization?
- What are the consequences of internet and social media for social cohesion and divisions, and for the mediated presentation of society and politics?
The seminar primarily discusses recent international studies on different kinds of online communication: social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Youtube and TikTok, online dating, discussion forums, and online gaming. The seminar will be held in English with intensive participation in discussion by the students.

N. N.

Ergänzung und Vertiefung empirischer Methoden

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-29-GS-32Introduction to Text Mining (in English)
[Text Mining - eine Einführung]

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 10:00 - 12:00 GW2 B1170 (2 Teaching hours per week)

Text mining is a process of information retrieval from (structured or unstructured) textual data. It is widely used by academics, government agencies, and industry professionals to understand human behavior, identify community needs, and improve customer service, among others. This course is designed to introduce the basics of text mining as a powerful research tool with a broad range of applications. We will cover principles of research design and research ethics as they apply to text mining, and we will review the major methodologies involved, such as unsupervised and supervised text classification.

(Contact: Dr. Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, E-Mail: nikolitsa.grigoropoulou@uni-bremen.de, Unicom Building R 9.1120, Mary-Somerville-Strasse 9, 28359 Bremen)

Dr. Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou

Praxisrelevanz und Berufsorientierung

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-29-GS-42Sociology meets Psychology: Acting Socially Sustainable in Organisations – Basic principles (in English)
[Soziologie trifft Psychologie: Sozial nachhaltiges Handeln in Organisationen – Grundlagen]

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 3/6

Dates:
fortnightly (starts in week: 2) Tue. 16:00 - 20:30 SFG 1010 (2 Teaching hours per week)

“The workplace is the most important environment for most people’s health, whether it is a home, office, factory or forest.” (Kjellström 2007)

What is needed to act socially sustainably in organisations? Why is it considered a central ele-ment in postmodern work and organisation? How can a culture of trust be developed? In this seminar, basic principles will be analysed for a better understanding of main principles, including insights from humanistic labour research, attitude and methods of Theme-centered Interaction in groups (Cohn), questions of participation and resistance (Lewin), an understanding of the psycho-logical functions of groups (Foulkes), psychological implications of power and authority (McClel-land, Sennett), reflections on resonance and disposability (Rosa), as well as an analysis of ele-ments of a healthy work-life balance.

This training seminar is oriented on what is used and needed in practice. Therefore, the workshop setting is based on a group dynamic approach (Cohn). It counts on active participation and co-creative contributions in workshops to ensure the overall success of the trainings – also in case of going back to online sessions. Therefore, students assume responsibility for parts of a workshop (oral part, 3 ECTS) and possibly also practice professional skills of how to write a workshop doc-umentary (written part in case of 6 ECTS). In their preparation and follow-up, students in teams receive constructive counsel and feedback, as well as support by examples, checklists, literature etc.

No, perfect English is not mandatory! The seminar uses English as a lingua franca – coping with effects of the intercultural setting is an insightful part of the reflection within the course. Students are supported to express themselves, didactically and by the lecturer, and will improve their Eng-lish by the way.

This seminar is part of a series. Each part can be studied separately. To many, it makes sense to train workshop facilitation for some semesters on different subject matters…and is really fun!

Explicitly open for 1st semester students and above, recommended for 3rd semester Bachelor students before their internship and thesis, as well open for Master and international Erasmus students, and to students from other faculties. This course is limited to 20 participants.

2 SWS: Fortnightly, starting in the 2nd week of the term, Tuesdays 4-7 pm; 3 hours (s.t.). Please register reliable via Stud.IP for your participation.

Einführende Literatur
International Labour Organisation ILO (2019). Universal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development. Access: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/-ed_norm/-relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_673680.pdf.
Meyerhuber, Sylke 2019. Theme-Centered Interaction for Educating Future Leaders Applied Social Psy-chology for Teaching Academics to Act Socially Sustainably in Organisations. In Sylke Meyerhu-ber, Helmut Reiser, Matthias Scharer (Eds.), Theme-centered Interaction in Higher Education. London, New York: Springer Nature, 3-56

Performance requirements / Credit Points (ECTS)
Preparation of an interactive workshop part, and exposition in a small groups (3 CP / 6 CP).

Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber