Veranstaltungsverzeichnis

Lehrveranstaltungen SoSe 2023

Soziologie und Sozialforschung, M.A.

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Wahlbereich - General Studies

Der Wahlbereich umfasst drei Bereiche: General Studies Angebot des Faches Soziologie, General Studies Angebot aus dem Fachbereich 8 Sozialwissenschaften, General Studies Angebot anderer Fächer. Die Angebote können fei gewählt werden.

General Studies Angebot des Faches Soziologie

Ergänzung und Vertiefung Spezieller Soziologien

VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
08-29-GS-22Gender, Work and Welfare (in englischer Sprache)
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Seminar
ECTS: 3/6

Termine:
wöchentlich Do 12:00 - 14:00 UNICOM 3.0230 Seminarraum 3 (2 SWS)

The course investigates the different ways how normative ideas about gender relations and family models, including a gendered division of labour, are incorporated into welfare states and how these influence patterns of gender (in-)equality. The first part of the course focuses on seminal texts that systematically included gender relations into welfare state research and criticised well-established comparative approaches for their gender-blindness. The second part concentrates on different policy areas of the welfare state from a comparative perspective and asks on what family model and gender arrangement they are based. In particular, family, labour market, pension and long-term care policies and its effects will be investigated to understand national particularities but also commonalities of welfare states with respect to gender relations. The third part aims at assessing recent transnational influences on gender relations in European welfare states, such as Europeanisation and migration.

Dr. Ruth Abramowski
08-29-GS-23Children in Politics (in englischer Sprache)
[Kinder und Politik]

Seminar
ECTS: 3/6

Termine:
wöchentlich Do 10:00 - 12:00 UNICOM 3.0230 Seminarraum 3 (2 SWS)

Today, we typically see childhood and politics as incompatible. Childhood is associated with innocence, while politics is considered to be something ‘dirty.’ Children are portrayed as not yet fully developed and so dependent on others, while participation in contemporary political systems is cast as requiring the cognitive abilities to express ‘independent’ opinions. Our cultural beliefs are embedded in our legal systems: the right to vote (as well as many other rights) is granted to people only after they legally reach adulthood. However, with more and more minors starting to participate in protest politics across the world (e.g., youth climate strikes), our cultural beliefs about the incompatibility of childhood and political experience, as well as the way we measure political maturity are put into question. The course will turn to literature in sociology, social history, political science, political theory, etc. in order to problematize our conventional view about incompatibility of childhood and politics. Politics is understood broadly in this course and refers not only to minors’ conventional and protest political participation but also to their access to the public sphere in general and their ability to be political subjects and not the objects of adult care. During the course, the following topics will be considered: how our perception of childhood changed throughout history; specificity of political socialization and political participation of minors compared to adults; ageism in politics; children in wars; should children have a right to vote, and what is political maturity.

Svetlana Erpyleva
08-29-GS-24Long-term care in international comparison – Trends and theoretical perspectives / DIE VERANSTALTUNG ENTFÄLLT!!!!!! (in englischer Sprache)
[Langzeitpflege im internationalen Vergleich - Trends und theoretische Perspektiven]

Seminar
ECTS: 3/6

Against the backdrop of demographic ageing and increasing labour market participation of women, the organization of care for older persons has become a key challenge for developed welfare states in recent decades. Since the 1990s, many of them have introduced or extended social rights in relation to publicly funded support and provision of social services in the field of long-term care (LTC). However, developed welfare states show significant differences in relation to the design of their LTC policy and cultural ideas related to ideal forms of care provision. In the first part of the course, we will focus on theoretical background for analyzing the historical development and cross-national differences in LTC policy. Different analytical concepts like the gendered division of care work, care arrangements and care regimes and varieties of familialization will be introduced. The second part will address cross-national differences in LTC policy and provision and look at some contrasting country cases from in- and outside Europe. In the third part, we will examine current trends in the development of LTC such as marketization, care migration or active aging in order to critically reflect on potentials and social risks associated with these developments.

Dr. Christopher Grages-Karabiner

Praxisrelevanz und Berufsorientierung

VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
08-29-GS-41Sociology Meets Psychology: Intercultural Psychology for Social Sustainability in Organisations (in englischer Sprache)
[Soziologie trifft Psychologie: Interkulturelle Psychologie für sozial nachhaltiges Handeln in Organisationen]

Seminar
ECTS: 2

Termine:
zweiwöchentlich (Startwoche: 2) Di 18:00 - 21:00 SFG 0140 (2 SWS)

Einzeltermine:
Fr 05.05.23 09:00 - 11:00

“Understanding is the journey into the land of the other.”(Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca, poet)

To be understood stems from understanding, an ability to change perspective, and of reflection. In order to act socially sustainably in organisations, people are obliged to deal with a growingly complex role set in competent ways. Key competences and social skills play a vital role in dealing with the complexity of human diversity. Is it enough to travel, to attend a training, to read a book for “intercultural competence”? Probably not. In this training seminar, approaches of intercultural understanding are examined in 7 workshops of 3 full hours: Theoretical frameworks are laid out; exercises and levels of reflection are experienced. Enlightenment and practical value from different approaches are examined. Participants explore the issue interactively with theory, in exchange of thoughts, and by exercises, in the light of entering a probably intercultural work life in the near future.

Framework: Social sustainability is one of three global goals noted in the Rio Convention 1992 by the UN World Commission of Environment and Development. While economic sustainability is a booster of change in modern organisations, ecological sustainability remains a acknowledged task (political pressure), while social sustainability is often neglected (burnout, early retirement). Therefore, it is important to understand how organisational structures, groups, and the individual’s processing and coping are interlinked. This General Studies series, based on sociological and psychological knowledge, is focussing on theories and praxis concepts that allow participants to gather an understanding on how organisations and their role actors can shape a workplace “socially sustainably”. All parts of the training seminar series can be studied separately, or as a row.

The seminar uses English as a lingua franca. Coping with the effects of this setting is part of the reflection within the course. Students are supported expressing themselves. The interactive training setting combines theoretical and practical parts, including reflection of own experiences. Students should be willing to participate in this manner. A field exploration for research-based learning will be part of this term’s requirements, besides an interactive workshop and its documentation.

Open for 1st semester students and above, recommended for Bachelor students before their internship and thesis, as well as for Master students. Open to Erasmus students and to students of other faculties. Please note: this course is limited to 20 participants.

2 SWS: Fortnightly, starting in the 2nd week of the term, Tuesdays 6 – 9 pm; 3 full hours (s.t.!). Please register reliable via Stud.IP for your participation; all material see there.

References
Hall, E. (1959). The Silent Language. Garden City. https://monoskop.org/images/5/57/Hall_Edward_T_The_Silent_Language.pdf
Hofstede, G. (1980). Cultures Consequences. International differences in work-related values. Sage.
Crisp, R. (ed.)(2010). The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity. Wiley-Blackwell.
Meyerhuber, S. (2020). Deconstructing impoliteness in professional discourse: The social psychology of workplace mobbing. A cross-disciplinary contribution with conclusions for the intercultural workplace. In Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, Special Issue on (in)tolerance and (in)civility in public discourse from interdisciplinary perspectives. 16/2, pp. 235-264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2020-0011 Download bei DeGruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LPP/16/2/html

Performance requirement for ECTS points
Preparation of an interactive lecture, field exploration and exposition in small groups (6 CP / 3 CP).

Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber

General Studies Angebot aus dem Fachbereich 8 / Sozialwissenschaften

VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
08-350-M4b-3Research design in practice: Representation in school textbooks (in englischer Sprache)
Concepts of an ecologically sustainable welfare state

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Do 12:00 - 14:00 UNICOM 7.2210 (InIIS - Mary-Somerville-Str. 7) UNICOM 7.1020 (2 SWS)
Helen Seitzer