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Curr. § 5 Para 1 No 6:

Students acquire the ability to explain the structures and cultures of the Austrian society and to theoretically locate compared to other European societies in terms of relevant models of society. They are able to name the most important stages of their present development and understand to update their knowledge of literary and statistical sources.

Moreover, they know how to state historical genesis and cultural variability of social order. They are able to critically reflect gender coding in western intellectual and cultural history as well as in (social)scientific discourses of modern age and to autonomously evaluate political strategies of gender politics on a national, European and international level.

European countries differ widely in structural, social, economic, institutional, and cultural traits. This course tries to understand these differences from a sociological perspective, that is it describes and classifies these differences, it explains these differences, and above all it learns students how the country context impacts on individual behavior and on the two main sociological phenomena of social inequality and social cohesion. To this purpose, both classical and more modern theories will be used and critically reviewed. Also, it will be treated how macro phenomena may influence other macro phenomena (including social change) via individual behavior (Coleman’s boat). At the end of the course examples from the literature on contextual effects will be treated.

Lectures

Mutliple choice exam (written)

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Consultation hours: Thu 1-2 p.m.