LFU:online

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Learning Outcome: Students learn to take up the sociological perspective. They acquire the ability to explain the theories and history of sociology as the science that analyses social action multidimensional, i.e. not limited to one section of human coexistence such as economy, politics or science. They can scientifically, i.e. theoretically, analyse current social, cultural, economic and political developments and evaluate them critically using current examples of social actors, institutions and processes.

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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 characterise fundamentals of empirical studies. They can assign the most important qualitative and quantitative survey methods to the respective scientific-theoretical and methodological background and decide which research questions require which methods. They are able to critically evaluate existing empirical studies and independently carry out the first phases of a research process (formulation of a research question, data collection, method reflection) qualitatively and/or quantitatively or using method triangulation.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 3

Learning Outcome: The students master the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics and can use this knowledge to answer sociological questions. They are able to carry out descriptive, univariate and bivariate data analyses independently with statistical software, to interpret the results in a sociologically meaningful way and to present them clearly with tables and graphics in research reports and presentations. To test hypotheses, students can perform parametric and non-parametric tests and calculate association measures. Successful completion of the module also enables the critical reception and use of official statistics and social science data in data archives.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 4

Learning Outcome: The students are able to investigate a research question theoretically with quantitative data and to apply structure-checking procedures to test hypotheses. The students can independently carry out the most common multivariate analysis methods with statistical software, interpret the results in a sociologically meaningful way and present them clearly with tables and graphics in research reports and presentations. The positive completion of the module enables the critical reception of quantitative-oriented contributions in the social science literature. Furthermore, the participants get their first insights into the possible uses of "big data" for the social sciences.

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Learning Outcome: The students are able to critically reflect on gender codes in Western intellectual and cultural history as well as in (socially) scientific discourses of modernity, and are able to independently judge political strategies of gender politics at national, European and international level.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 2

Learning Outcome: The students can name the most important theoretical models of modern society and can describe structures and changes in the light of the various social models. They recognise the possibilities and limits of knowledge opened up by social-theoretical models, and have a grasp of the dependence of the social models on their respective social context.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 2

Learning Outcome: The students can explain theories and analyses of the emergence and transformation of social institutions - in particular, institutions in terms of politics, the market and civil society. They can analyse the modes of operation and interactions of these institutions in societies. Students know central social scientific debates, terms and methods for analysing the market, state and social institutions and organizations.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 2

Learning Outcome: The students can reflect the current status of the debates on the dynamics of social change in agriculture and rural areas and describe their interactions with social developments (in Austria, Europe and in countries in the south). They will be able to reflect on and analyse processes of urban-rural relationships as well as the fundamentals of regional development processes using social science theories.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 4 and 5

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 compulsory modules 3 to 6 and 9 to 12

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

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Learning Outcome: This module serves to gain in-depth knowledge in selected subject areas of sociology. The students specialise in one or more subject(s) and acquire in-depth knowledge in them.