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Students get to know the subjects, questions and current research issues of a special sociolo-gy (consumption, town, body or knowledge and technical sociology). They know how to describe the development lines of the respective research field and to determine their essen-tial theoretical perspectives and relationship to sociological tradition of knowledge. Students can evaluate and discuss the relevance and importance of sociological perspectives and inter-pretative-qualitative culture-sociological research approaches in the context of empirical and interdisciplinary research fields. They are able to compare, link and evaluate positions within research discussions. Students know how to transfer their skills to new contexts and to devel-op individual research issues.

This lecture will introduce fundamental research topics, questions and findings of media theory and media sociology. It will give an introduction to classical works of media sociology and media theory. Further, it aims to provide means for a critical reflection and analysis of media.

Lecture

Written examination

Jäckel, Michael (Hrsg.) Mediensoziologie, Grundfragen und Forschungsfelder, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005

Luhmann, Niklas, Die Realität der Massenmedien, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 4. Auflage 2009.

Wagner, Elke, Einführung in die Mediensoziologie, UVK 2014.

positive completion of the compulsory module according to § 5 Para 1 No 9