408200 VO Contemporary Society 2

summer semester 2019 | Last update: 24.06.2019 Place course on memo list
Department of Sociology Department of Sociology
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Kristina Stoeckl, MA Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Kristina Stoeckl, MA
408200
VO Contemporary Society 2
VO 2
5
weekly
annually
German

Learnin target: In this lecture selected theoretical concepts of contemporary society and their applicability on trends and problems of contemporary society will be examined. Students acquire the ability to test and assess the heuristic and explanatory potential of the selected contemporary theories of society

This lecture deals with sociology of religion. The lecture will convey to the students the basic principles of religious sociology in the context of theoretical debates on modernization, secularization and religion. In the first part, we will discuss how the secularization thesis was first presented as a paradigm of modernization, and then rejected by scholars since the late 1970s (David Martin, Peter Berger). The question that guides the argument is: if secularization is NOT an indispensable consequence of modernization, in which situation are present-day modern societies? Various models are introduced and presented: The Religious Market (Ingelhardt), Believing Without belonging + Vicarious Religion (Grace Davie), Western Europe as a special case (Eder, Casanova), Multipe Secularisms / Multiple Secularizations (Wohlrab-Sahr), Privatization and Public Religion (Casanova), the postsaccular society (Habermas), Desecularization (Berger, Karpov).
The curriculum is devoted to the study of Western Europe / USA and Eastern Europe / Russia, and the students are encouraged to think about how social theory has been shaped since the middle of the 20th century by the experience of the Cold War the convergence of Europe after the fall of Communism. The return of religion, for example, is an empirical phenomenon in former communist countries, but at the same time these countries are, with few exceptions, more secularized than many West European countries. In Western Europe, on the other hand, we are less concerned with a return than with a pluralization of religion, which in turn encounters resistance in many countries of Eastern Europe.

Preparatory readings - presentations by the lecturer - plenary discussions

Written exam (multiple choice test)

Course-reading:

Pickel, Gert. Religionssoziologie. Eine Einführung in zentrale Themenbereiche. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011. Dieses Buch ist im Online Bestand der ULB und kann im Uni-System kostenlos heruntergeladen werden!

Additional literature for each session will be provided via OLAT. Additional literature will be in English.

positive completion of the compulsory module according to § 5 Para 1 No 7.

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