LFU:online

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Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to explain the theories and history of sociology as the science that analysis social action multidimensional, i.e. not limited to one section of human coexistence. They are able to recognize main social issues and subjects and to describe them from a sociological perspective. They know how to analyse contemporary social, cultural, economic and political developments in terms of science, i.e. theory-driven, and to critically evaluate institutions and processes with current examples.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to understand sociological issues, to limit research questions, to construct hypotheses, to find the necessary literature and to quote it correctly. Moreover, they understand to apply these skills in a written work, to reproduce the discussion of the research subject and to develop an individual argumentation.

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Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to deal with fundamentals of empirical studies. They understand to allocate the most important qualitative and quantitative survey methods to the respective scientific-theoretical and methodological background and chose the necessary methods for each research question. They are able to deal with current empirical studies and to apply the first steps of a research process (formulation of a research issue, data collection, method reflection) autonomously in terms of quality and/or quantity or method.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the logics of the current statistical procedures and approaches in empirical research of social sciences and they understand their logics and procedures in Terms of empirical research. They acquire basic knowledge of the statistical methods used in empirical data analyses.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to distinguish and characterize the most important paradigms of sociological basic theories in their historical development. They know how to apply these theories to current sociological issues. They are able to systematically analyse power and power relationships. They know how to classify and explain the development of political thinking in the course of the centuries as well as to illustrate different definitions of power. Students understand to identify different theories of state and to explain different theories of democracy.

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Learning Outcome: 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.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 2

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to reproduce the essential theoretical approaches of interpretative sociology and to explain their basic terminology. Moreover, they know how to describe current topic areas and research perspectives of cultural social analyses. They are able to critically discuss constructions of identity in the context of social relationships of misjudgement and recognition based on sociological identity theories and theoretical impulses from related fields. They know how to identify and authentically reproduce central theses and lines of reasoning. Moreover, they are able to apply theoretical concepts to empirical phenomena.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 2

Learning Outcome: Students acquire basic knowledge of the theories and processes of regional development, town and country relations as well as rural and development sociology (in Austria, Europe and Southern countries). Students acquire knowledge of the practical relevance and the use of theoretical models - e.g. of rural sociology.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 3

Learning Outcome: Students acquire advanced knowledge of the methods of the social sciences and deepen these with the help of concrete examples.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 4

Learning Outcome: Students acquire advanced knowledge of statistical methods of empirical data analysis.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 3, 4 and 11

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to individually plan (research and study design, research hypotheses or heuristics, survey and evaluation procedure) and implement (data collection and evaluation as well as result presentation) an empirical sociological research project as well as to relate theory, methodology and empirical research.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the module according to § 5 Para 1 No 1 to 6 and one compulsory module according to § 5 Para 1 No 7 to 10

Learning Outcome: Students proof their ability to individually apply theoretical and methodical tools of sociology to a specific topic within the bachelor's thesis.