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Curr. § 5 (2) 3: Students get to know the subjects, questions and current research issues of a special sociology (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 essential theoretical perspectives and relationship to sociological tradition of knowledge. Students can evaluate and discuss the relevance and importance of sociological perspectives and interpretative-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 develop individual research issues. 

This lecture deals with issues of consumption and everyday provision. It considers historical, political and macro-economic conditions for present consumption regimes as well as the social structural dimensions of consumer cultures in Europe. The lecture also provides an introduction to theoretical perspectives of socio-economics, economic and cultural sociology and the sociology of consumption. Special attention will be given to housing and consumption in the urban context, ecological transformation and the variety and change of modes of provision.

Lecture

Written exam

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