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Curr. § 5 Abs. 1 Z 9:

Die Studierenden können die wesentlichen theoretischen Ansätze der verstehenden

Soziologie wiedergeben und deren grundlegende Begrifflichkeiten erläutern. Weiter können

sie aktuelle Themenfelder und Forschungsperspektiven alltags- und kultursoziologischer

Analysen beschreiben. Sie sind insbesondere in der Lage, auf Basis soziologischer

Identitätstheorien wie auch theoretischer Impulse aus angrenzenden Feldern

Identitätskonstruktionen im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Verkennungs- und

Anerkennungsverhältnisse kritisch zu diskutieren. Sie können zentrale Thesen und

Argumentationsstränge identifizieren und unverfälscht wiedergeben. Zudem sind sie

befähigt, theoretische Konzepte forschungsleitend beispielhaft auf empirische Phänomene

anzuwenden.

The question how social inequality can be analytically reconstructed, is a central question of sociologists. In these sociological debates concepts of intersectionality received increasingly more attention. What intersectionality means and how it can be implemented in an empirical way is very controversial: Opens the concept new approaches or is it a label for this (old and) known perspectives? In which relation is the concept to institutionally-scientific and / or critical-emancipatory research interest? What are the limits and ranges of individual and institutional levels of analysis? And is intersectionality a "heuristic device", a methodological framing or at least a critical reading strategy? In the light of these open questions, we will turn to micro-sociological (see. West / Window Maker 1995) and macro-sociological approaches (see. Klinger / Knapp 2007) of social inequality and intersectionality. The starting point are texts that focus on the individual embeddedness in power and domination. The texts do refer to the importance of inequality categories and / or structures , which can lead to discrimination and exclusion (e.g. Davis, 1981; Combahe River Collective 1981). Finally, we will explore, how to apply intersectional approaches in empirical research.

This seminar is a reading course, i.e. reading pleasure is the primary requirement. In the seminar the respective topics of the reading should be discussed with interesting and critical questions. For this purpose, the texts must be very well prepared and questions must be sent in for each session. There will also be working groups that are responsible for moderating part of the sessions. Teamwork is therefore required.

Reading, reflection questions, moderation/presentation and seminar paper

Lutz, Helma; Herrera Viva, Maria Teresa; Supik, Linda (2012): Fokus. Intersektionalität. Bewegungen und Verortungen eines vielschichtigen Konzeptes. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Müller, Marion (2003): Geschlecht und Ethnie. Historische Bedeutungswandel, interaktive Konstruktion und Interferenzen. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

positive completion of the compulsory module according to Curr. § 5 Para 1 No 2.

Language of teaching is German; texts are primarily in German with occasional English texts.

Consultation by appointment by e-mail.