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COURSES IN ENGLISH
This booklet gives a review of courses that are taught in English in the
sociological programmes at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe-University
Frankfurt.
WINTER
SEMESTER
2016/17
Institute of
Sociology
INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY – COURSES IN ENGLISCH – WINTER SEMESTER 2016/17
CONTENT
1. Preliminary remarks ............................................................................................ 1
1.1 Aim............................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
1.2 How to use this booklet ..................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Further Information ............................................................................................................................................................ 1
1.4 Online selection of English seminars ............................................................................................................................. 2
2. Course descriptions ............................................................................................. 3
3. Program Integration .......................................................................................... 11
3.1 BA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2010 .................................................................... 11
3.2 BA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2015 .................................................................... 12
3.3 MA Program Sociology – study and examination regulations 2010 ................................................................ 13
3.4 MA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2015 ................................................................... 14
3.5 MA Program Economic and financial Sociology – Modules ................................................................................ 15
4. Academic Staff .................................................................................................. 16
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1. Preliminary remarks
1.1 Aim
The institute of sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt is aimed at strenghtening its international profile in teaching
and extending its English-taught courses in the BA and MA programs. This booklet provides a review of English-taught
courses that take place in the winter semester 2016/17.
We hope that this overview can help foreign and German students that like to enhance their English skills in making
their course.
1.2 How to use this booklet
The booklet includes the core information about the courses that are taught in English in the BA and MA programs in
sociology. It is advisable, hoewever, to check the details in the online university calender (LSF) since dates, times, and
rooms might have been changed. The LSF is accessible at URL https://qis.server.uni-frankfurt.de.
Please note:
1.) While the majority of courses will take place on the Campus Westend, some courses will be on the Campus
Bockenheim.
2.) At German universities courses usually begin 15 minutes later (c.t. = cum tempore) and end 15 minutes earlier
than stated in the course description. For example, a course that is scheduled for 2-4 PM will probably start at
2.15 PM and end at 3.45 PM. There are exceptions to this custom of course; if you are not sure about it, ask your
teacher or fellow students about the time arrangements for the certain course.
1.3 Further Information
Lecture period: 17 October 2016 – 10 February 2017.
Website of the Faculty of Social Sciences: http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de.
Study Information can be found here: http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/39791657/studium
International Office: PEG Building 1/2nd floor, Campus Westend.
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1.4 Online selection of English seminars
1. Go to https://qis.server.uni-frankfurt.de, take the links to “Courses” and “Search for Lectures”
2. For English-taught courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences please select the following characteristics:
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2. Course descriptions
Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, Interna-
tional Politics and Military Interventions
Helma Lutz
Link to seminar
Courses description
Appropriation has recently become a buzzword to describe a variety of problematic incorporations of social move-
ments originally seeking progressive change into hegemonic projects. The appropriation of feminist ideas and practic-
es by conservative or right-wing parties, elective affinities between feminism and neo-liberalism as well the use of
feminism as justification in international politics and military interventions represent some examples of contemporary
entanglements of feminism with hegemonic projects, that have recently become a topic of international feminist
concern. From a feminist research perspective, this course will reflect on the many but fragmented debates on appro-
priation and cooptation of feminism in the various contexts and examine how some of the feminist ideas and practices
have been appropriated by or incorporated into various actors’ hegemonic projects.
In the course we will explore three topics: a) feminism and neoliberalism; b) feminism and racism/neo-liberalism; c)
feminism, international politics and military interventions.
Tuesday 4-6 pm; PEG building 1st floor, room 165
Master level: SOZ10-MA-2, SOZ-MA-2, SOZ10-MA-3, SOZ-MA-3, SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
Contemporary Racisms
Kira Kosnick
Link to seminar
Courses description
This seminar will investigate contemporary forms of racism, particularly as they relate to the so-called refugee crisis
and questions of migrant integration in Europe. We will examine the links between postcoloniality and racism, be-
tween ‘cultural’ racism and Islamophobia, and between neoliberal capitalism and the regulation of migra-
tion/integration. Students need to be willing to work through and engage with mostly English texts with different,
sometimes high levels of theoretical complexity, and to participate actively in oral discussions in the classroom. The
aim is to both better understand the workings of racism beyond the phenomenon of self-avowedly racist right-wing
extremism, and to think about strategies of anti-racist intervention.
Wednesday noon-2 pm, seminar building SH ground floor, room 104
Master level: SOZ10-MA-2, SOZ-MA-2, SOZ10-MA-5, SOZ-MA-5, SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8, SOZ-BA-SP, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ10-BA-S2
Elections and referendums
Sergiu Gherghina
Link to seminar
Course description:
Elections are at the core of most political systems in the world. Almost every country, irrespective of its size or regime
type, holds elections (for various reasons) that are organized by specific rules. Referendums are a particular type of
election in which citizens are asked to choose between policies instead of candidates. They are a form of direct de-
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mocracy in which citizens have the opportunity to influence decision-making in a non-mediated way. This course aims
to provide students a basic understanding of these two fundamental processes in contemporary politics: what elec-
tions and referendums are, how they function, and with what consequences for the broader political system. In this
respect, the readings are selected to familiarize students with the particular concepts, while the course lectures are
designed to complement the information received from texts and to delve into issues related to the components,
types, rational, and functioning of elections and referendums. Several class exercises are thought as hands-on ap-
proach by 1) providing illustrative examples for the theoretical instances discussed during the course and 2) by en-
couraging active participation from students. At the end of this course it is expected that students will have learned a
detailed understanding of how elections and referendums function and what the most common consequences of
these processes are.
Monday 2-4 pm; seminar building SH 5th floor, room 106
Bachelor level: SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
Equality and Justice
Eszter Kollar
Link to seminar
Course description: Ideas of equality and justice are at the core of some of the most influential debates in contemporary political theory. While most people subscribe to some idea of equality and justice, philosophical and political discussions are fraught with disagreement over their precise meaning, what kind of equality is of value, how it relates to the problem of (dis-tributive) justice, and which inequalities should be seen as unjust. The course begins with an introduction to the method of political theorizing followed by a discussion on why and when equality matters. Then, the course proceeds through a series of seminal debates in theories of justice and equality, including, Rawls vs. Nozick; equality vs. suffi-ciency; “the equality of what”; luck egalitarianism vs. social-relational egalitarianism. In second part of the course, focusing on applied normative theories, we examine some ideas concerning the requirements of justice and equality in the context of disability, racial discrimination and the gendered division of labor. The course combines lectures, seminars, and debate sessions with active student participation.
Tuesday noon-2 pm, seminar building SH 5th floor, room 105
Master level: SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8
Einführung in die Quantitative Empirische Datenanalyse: Einstellungen zur Elternschaft in
Europa -
Sandra Buchler
Link to seminar
Course description:
The learning goals of this seminar are twofold. First, the seminar will focus on (the social construction of) parenthood,
attitudes toward parenthood and the division of paid and unpaid work, with a particular focus on how to design and
empirically examine sociologically relevant research questions. Second, the students will learn how to conduct quanti-
tative empirical data analysis using (cross-national) survey data. Using STATA, students will be guided through the
initial stages of data setup, data cleaning, variable construction and producing basic multi-variate statistical models
(for example, linear and bi-variate regression). Overall, the goal of the seminar is to provide students will the skills
required to conduct empirical, quantitative data analysis within the frame of theory and research questions relevant
for sociology and the social sciences. It is a prerequisite that students have completed “Modul 4 / SOZ-BA-F1 Statistik”
and “Modul 3 / SOZ-BA-GF Grundlagen der empirischen Sozialforschung” or have completed equivalent course-
work/seminars/courses.
Possibly add a note about using ESS, or whatever data set will be used. Think about to what degree it will be possible
to do cross-national research (probably not possible at BA level, but can still do country-specific data analysis).
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Language: Depending of the preferences and capacities of the participating students the seminar can be carried out in
German or English (the course guide, readings and handouts, however, will be provided in English).
Wednesday 2-6 pm, PEG building 2nd floor, room 116
Bachelor level (advanced): SOZ10-BA-F2, SOZ-BA-S5; SOZ10-BA-SP
Ethnography in practice and in theory - Part 2
Endre Dányi
Link to seminar
Course description
Over the past couple of decades, ethnography has become a popular method of social inquiry. As such, it has often
been used to produce raw material for new theories and test the applicability of already existing ones. At the same
time, it has been rather uncommon to think of it as a mode of theorising on its own right. The central purpose of the
second part of this course is to problematise the boundary between theory and practice by reviewing some of the
most exciting developments in ethnographic research as distinct ways of doing theory, including Paul Rabinow’s an-
thropology of the contemporary, Bruno Latour’s anthropology of the moderns, and various storytelling experiments
inspired by the scholarship of Walter Benjamin.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, seminar building SH 3rd floor, room 107
Master level: SOZ10-MA-7, SOZ10-MA-8, SOZ-MA-9, SOZ-MA-10, WF-MA-7
Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective
Marija Grujic
Link to seminar
Course description
„Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective” is a BA course that is designed to provide stu-
dents with a critical introduction - primarily from a gender studies sociological perspective - to flight and refugee mi-
gration as multifaceted social phenomena that are entangled with discourses on exclusion/inclusion from ‘nation’ and
‘state’. This seminar aims to introduce complexities around the following topics: subject formation and nation, ind i-
vidual and collective identities, power relations and politics of difference. The ‘flight’ and ‘refugee’ will be, therefore,
mainly discussed in the intersection with the ‘gendered nationalism’ and politics of individual and collective belonging
to her/his ‘homeland’.
In order to achieve this, in the framework of this seminar, on the one side, we will discuss different questions and links
between ‘gender’ and ‘nation’ as social categories. On the other side, ‘nationalism’ as an ideology and a discourse on
‘others’ will be framed within questions such as: How (national) ‘borders’ and ‘boundaries’ co-construct refugeeness
and displacements as political and social reality? How notions of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ are intersected in the migra-
tory experiences and the social status of people in ‘flight’ and ‘refuge’? In order to answer these questions, we will
read a variety of studies on the post-conflict and the post-colonial societies that provide us a critical material for stud-
ying politics of belonging and constructions of stereotypes on ‘other’, in particular, in regards to nationalism, racism
and sexisms.
The course will mostly be focused on the European context, however global and transnational perspectives will be
thematized. Most of the specialized literature will represent micro-sociological studies and socio-anthropological work
on refugees and displacement in the context of post-conflict or post-socialist societies such as former Yugoslavia and
Soviet Union.
Tuesday 6-8 pm, seminar building SH 2nd floor, room 104
Bachelor level (advanced): SOZ10-BA-S2, SOZ-BA-S2, SOZ10-BA-S3, SOZ-BA-S4, SOZ10-BA-SP
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Leviathan's Shadow: Statehood and Sovereignty in International Relation
Ben Kamis
Link to seminar
Courses description
This course engages with one of the most central and yet most challenged and elusive concepts of International Rela-
tions (IR): the state. In conventional IR perspectives, the state system is taken for granted as an institutional landscape
in which international political interaction plays out. Yet if states are the building blocks of the international, how did
they emerge in the first place and how are they challenged or reconstituted by various developments in contemporary
world politics, from state failure to global constitutionalization? This course familiarizes students with debates on the
historical emergence of the state and state system, from Neo-Weberian and Marxist accounts to legal approaches,
thus revisiting key understandings of how today’s international order was constituted and what makes it hold togeth-
er. It then turns to discussing contemporary issues of statehood in international politics, including state-building, (non-
)intervention, and the role of international law in the creation, recognition, and regulation of new states. The course
thereby introduces students to a central category of IR and world politics and at the same time offers critical perspec-
tives on the stakes involved in performing, challenging, and reconstituting the state and state system.
Wednesday noon-2 pm, seminar building SH 1st floor, room 105
Bachelor level (advanced): SOZ10-BA-S1, SOZ10-BA-S2 SOZ-BA-S2
Migrants and the City, part 2
Anna Amelina
Link to seminar
Courses description
Frankfurt is a superdiverse city that has become home to people from all over the world and that integrates a contra-
dictory dynamics brought about by neoliberal pressures on one side and cosmopolitan, ethnic and cross-ethnic net-
works on the other. Frankfurt has become a place both for cosmopolitan elites and for members of the global precari-
at.
The primary objective of this seminar is to study a variety of social domains of Frankfurt’s urban life in relation to in-
ternational migration, mobile individuals’ settlement and Frankfurt’s transnational embeddedness, in particular in
relation to fundamental structures of social inequality in terms of gender, class, ethnicity/race and age. Participants
will be inspired to conduct original research on the impacts of international migration on Frankfurt, the life trajecto-
ries and experiences of mobile individuals, and city policies on migration and internationalization. The course consists
of two parts.
Part I (summer term 2016) will provide the theoretic and methodological basis for the participants’ empirical studies;
Part II (winter term 2016/17) will be organized around the participants’ empirical studies, which will involve the re-
search itself, a brief presentation of the results and the preparation of research reports.
Monday 4-6 pm, PEG building 1st floor, room 111
Master Level: SOZ10-MA-2, SOZ-MA-2, SOZ10-MA-7, SOZ10-MA-8, SOZ-MA-9, SOZ-MA-10, SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8 SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP,
Practice turn in the social sciences
Endre Dányi
Link to seminar
Courses description
This is an introductory course centred around the concept of practice.
It aims to offer a general overview of the so-called practice turn in the social sciences, compare and contrast the most
important theories of practice in sociology, and examine a series of case studies in practice research informed by re-
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cent developments in cultural anthropology, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, and science and technology stud-
ies.
After an introductory session we proceed by identifying various components of practice theory as possible focus
points. Each component – ‘bodies’, ‘texts’, ‘materialities’, ‘temporalities’, ‘spatialities’ – is discussed in two consecu-
tive sessions with the help of (a) classical social scientific texts and (b) specific case studies. The main requirements for
taking the course are the submission of comments on the weekly readings (25%), active participation in the seminars
(25%), and the writing of a final essay of 3000 words (50%).
Wednesday 4-6 pm, seminar building SH 5th floor, room 104
Bachelor level (advanced): SOZ10-BA-3, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
Propädeutikum Introduction to Sociology and Scientific Work
Heather Hofmeister
Link to seminar
Courses description
In this course we want to lay the foundation for a successful and rewarding sociological study for all our incoming
students! How do sociologists see the world? What do they do? Which themes do they focus on? How is sociology
different from other subjects? What professions do sociologists work in? We’re going to look at core concepts, theo-
ries, and terms in the field of sociology. At the end of the semester, we expect that students understand core tradi-
tions in sociology and how sociologists work and see the world. Our long term goal is that graduates of Sociology from
the Goethe-University in Frankfurt can apply various perspectives to understand, analyze, explain, and create solu-
tions for complex social and interpersonal issues.
Requirements for the Introductory Lecture (Propädeutikum) are an interest in sociology and the willingness to attend
and participate actively and constructively, having read the texts and completed the assignments on time. The English
language is important in Germany, Europe and internationally in science and sociology, as well as in business, politics,
and arts. Therefore we are going to use this training and have English and German as core languages in the course.
Tuesday 4-6 pm and Thursday 6-8 pm, lecture auditorium HZ 1
Bachelor level: SOZ10-BA-SE, SOZ-BA-SE
Public Opinion in New and Established Democracies
Sergiu Gherghina
Link to seminar
Courses description
This course examines the sources, development and consequences of public opinion in new and established democra-
cies over the last four decades. it will discuss how to define and conceptualize public opinion (what it is) in different
settings, what are its origins (where do people’s attitudes and opinions come from), how public opinion changes over
time and how it varies across countries or levels (national vs. local), and whether public opinion influences policy-
making and representatives’ behavior. The course combines theoretical and empirical approaches with an emphasis of
active participation of students. At the end of this course it is expected that students will: 1) learn how to apply politi-
cal science theories to the formation of public opinion, 2) understand what public opinion is and how to analyze its
developments and 3) explain the extent to which public opinion has consequences for political systems and societies.
Monday noon-2 pm, seminar building SH 1St floor, room 105
Bachelor level: SOZ10-BA-S1, SOZ-BA-S1
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets
Claudius Wagemann
Link to seminar
Courses description Please register by 05.10.2016 with an e-mail to: [email protected], including a tenlines moti-
vation statement (attached as a separate file) in which you give reasons why you would like to attend the course.
Note that the maximum number of participants is 40.
Please, send in your e-mail also following information: first name - surname - matriculation number - course of studies
- semester, as subject: the name of the course
Over the last decades, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) has become always more diffused in political science
and sociology applications. QCA belongs to the group of case study methods and can be seen as the most systematic
form of case comparison. It is based on principles from set theory and allows to identify in how far causal conditions
can count as sufficient and / or necessary for given outcomes.
The objectives of this course are
a. to render the participants familiar with basic and advanced knowledge about QCA as a research technique;
b. to discuss QCA as a research design within the realm of comparative methods; and
c. to illustrate the major principles and logics of comparative thinking in general. Furthermore, since QCA is an
important element of the instructor’s and his team’s work, this course also prepares for eventual subsequent
collaboration opportunities.
The course starts with a general overview of QCA and set theory and its basic notions of sufficiency and necessity.
Subsequently, two problems will be discussed which usually occur when neat formal logic encounters the complex
social world to be analyzed, namely causal inconsistency and limited diversity. After this, we will concentrate on po-
tential pitfalls in QCA analyses and learn about possible extensions of the original concept. During a software work-
shop, participants will be trained in the use of the software package R (freeware) and its application to QCA questions.
The course will be based on the textbook: Schneider, Carsten Q. and Claudius Wagemann (2012). Set-Theoretic Meth-
ods for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The textbook just serves as a reference in case
something has not been properly understood.
The course will be held in English. For the software workshop, participants are asked to install R on their laptop com-
puters. Note that the software part will not be held in a computer lab so that every participant has to bring her/his
laptop.
Tuesday noon-2 pm, seminar building SH 4th floor, room 105
Master level: SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8, SOZ-MA-7, WF-MA-6, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
Research Design
Claudius Wagemann
Link to seminar
Courses description The success of a research project also depends on its design. Often, the preparatory decisions already define which
purposes a research project can fulfil. Therefore, design considerations are an important step of every research pro-
ject.
The objectives of this course are to introduce the participants to the social science literature on research design topics
and, therefore, to also give an overview of contemporary methodological debates. Indeed, both political science and
sociology consider methodology to be an important sub-discipline. This course is empirically oriented, with a strong
focus on (comparative) case study research. Due to the instructor’s substantial competence, most empirical examples
will be taken from political science. Nevertheless, all empirical researchers (no matter whether qualitatively or quanti-
tatively oriented) can benefit from the course. Note that interpretative or mainly normatively or theoretically inter-
ested research designs will not be taught.
After placing the discussion on research designs in the disciplines of political science and sociology, the course first
concentrates on the three design options of a (small-N) case study, comparative research designs, and quantitative
approaches. Subsequently, some phases of the research cycles which seem to be of special importance will be intro-
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duced. A final session will draw the argument together and discuss what a good research design can be, and how to
integrate various approaches.
The course program indicates various readings which will be provided online; students who are registered for this
course will receive an e-mail with indications at the beginning of the semester It is indispensable that the texts are
read before the respective session. Note that there are also readings for the first session.
This course ends before the Christmas break and is therefore three hours per week
Tuesday 8-12 am, seminar building SH 4th floor, room 107
Master level: SOZ-MA-7, WF-MA-6
The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives
Matthias Thiemann
Link to seminar
Courses description The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives
This class approaches financial markets from an explicitly social constructivist perspective. After briefly reviewing the
literature on the role of the state and conventions in these markets (Pistor 2013, Ingham 2004, 2008), the class seeks
to address three issues:
1. How can we understood the strong growth of financial markets that we witness since the breakdown of Bretton
Woods and which role do states play in this re-emergence of finance? In this segment, we will review work on fi-
nancialization (e.g. Krippner 2011) and the international political economy literature on the re-emergence of fi-
nance, starting with Helleiner (1994).
2. How can the pace of financial innovation since the 1970s be explained by on the one hand the introduction of
new financial models and techniques and on the other hand by international competitiveness considerations of
states? In this segment we will review the literature on performativity of models, on the capacity of the regulated
to circumvent regulation and its impact on regulators.
3. How did the crisis change the dynamics or do we observe a continuation of trends pre-crisis driven by competi-
tiveness considerations of states? Is there a paradigm shift in the regulation of financial markets? And which are
the actors to impose it?
Monday 10-12 am, seminar building SH 5th floor, room 106
Master level: SOZ10-BA-S1, SOZ10-MA-4, SOZ-MA-4, SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8, WF-MA-4, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
Work and Occupations: Science Careers
Heather Hofmeister
Link to seminar
Courses description We examine science as a workplace and scientists as employees, entrepreneurs, and professionals. We look at work-
place structures, gatekeeping mechanisms, reward systems, and work assumptions to understand the biases and so-
cial constructions of science careers.
Wednesday noon-2 pm, PEG building 1St floor, room 111
Master level: SOZ10-MA-2, SOZ-MA-2, SOZ10-MA-4, SOZ-MA-4, SOZ10-MA-6, SOZ-MA-8, WF-MA-2, SOZ10-BA-SP, SOZ-BA-SP
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Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Anne Kronberg
Link to seminar
Courses description In past decades the nature of work has changed dramatically in Germany and around the globe. This seminar will take
a closer look at three trends in particular: the rise of a-typical work, decline of firm-internal job opportunities and
changing organization of work itself. We will discuss different theoretical perspectives on why these changes occurred
and examine potential consequences on today’s workforce.
Language:
English is the official language of all instructions and discussions. Written work or individual meetings can be in Ger-
man or English.
Tuesday 10-12 am, seminar building SH ground floor, room 105
Bachelor level (advanced): SOZ10-BA-S1, SOZ-BA-S1, SOZ10-BA-S3, SOZ-BA-S3, SOZ10-BA-SP
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3. Program Integration
3.1 BA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2010
Propaedeutics (SOZ10-BA-SE) Propädeutikum Introduction to Sociology and Scientific Work
Sociological Theories (SOZ10-BA-ST) n/a
Nation, Space, Social Inequality (SOZ10-BA-S1) Leviathan's Shadow: Statehood and Sovereignty in International Relation Public Opinion in New and Established Democracies The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Culture, Communication, Subject Constitution (SOZ10-BA-S2) Contemporary Racisms Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective Leviathan's Shadow: Statehood and Sovereignty in International Relation
Work, Organization, Gender (SOZ10-BA-S3) Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective Practice turn in the social sciences Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Foundations of Social Sciences (SOZ10-BA-T) n/a
Research Competencies 1 (SOZ10-BA-F1) n/a
Research Competencies 2 (SOZ10-BA-F2) Einführung in die Quantitative Empirische Datenanalyse: Einstellungen zur Elternschaft in Europa
Specialization (SOZ10-BA-SP) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Elections and referendums Einführung in die Quantitative Empirische Datenanalyse: Einstellungen zur Elternschaft in Europa Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective Migrants and the City, part 2 Practice turn in the social sciences Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occuations: Science Careers Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Supervision of BA Thesis (SOZ10-BA-KO) n/a
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3.2 BA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2015
Introductory course (SOZ-BA-SE) Propädeutikum Introduction to Sociology and Scientific Work
Sociological Theories (SOZ-BA-ST) n/a
Social Structure and Social Inequality (SOZ-BA-S1) Public Opinion in New and Established Democracies Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Culture, Subject, Identity (SOZ-BA-S2) Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective Leviathan's Shadow: Statehood and Sovereignty in International Relation
Economy and Technology – Word and Organization (SOZ-BA-S3) Work and occupations in the 21st Century
Gender, Migration, Production of Knowledge (SOZ-BA-S4) Gender, Flight and Refugee Migration in Intersectional Perspective
Concentration in Methods and Research (SOZ-BA-S5) Einführung in die Quantitative Empirische Datenanalyse: Einstellungen zur Elternschaft in Europa
Foundations of Social Sciences (SOZ-BA-T) n/a
Indroduction of Statistics (SOZ-BA-F1) n/a
Fundamentals of Empiricial Social Research (SOZ-BA-GF) n/a
Specialization (SOZ-BA-SP) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Elections and referendums Migrants and the City, part 2 Practice turn in the social sciences Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occuations: Science Careers
Research Design (SOZ-BA-KO) n/a
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3.3 MA Program Sociology – study and examination regulations 2010
Sociological Theories and Methodologies (SOZ10-MA-1) n/a
Gender Relations (SOZ10-MA-2) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Migrants and the City, part 2 Work and Occuations: Science Careers
Social Psychology and Elementary Forms of Life (SOZ10-MA-3) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions
Society and Economy (SOZ10-MA-4) The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occuations: Science Careers
Social Inequality and Political Sociology (SOZ10-MA-5) Contemporary Racisms
Specialization (SOZ10-MA-6) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Equality and Justice Migrants and the City, part 2 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occupations: Science Careers
Research Practice 1 (SOZ10-MA-7) Ethnografic Theories, part 2 Migrants and the City, part 2
Research Practice 2 (SOZ10-MA-8) Ethnografic Theories, part 2 Migrants and the City, part 2
Supervision of MA Thesis (SOZ10-MA-9) n/a
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3.4 MA Program Sociology; study and examination regulations 2015
Sociological Theory, History of Sociology and Philosophy of Science (SOZ-MA-1) n/a
Gender, Migration and Diversity (SOZ-MA-2) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Migrants and the City, part 2 Work and Occuations: Science Careers
Micro-Sociology, Social Psychology and Culture (SOZ-MA-3) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions
Economy, Work and Organization (SOZ-MA-4) The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occuations: Science Careers
Social Structure and Social Inequality (SOZ-MA-5) Contemporary Racisms
Knowledge, Technology, Environment (SOZ-MA-6) n/a
Advanced Methods in Empirical Social Research (SOZ-MA-7) Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets Research Design
Specialization (SOZ-MA-8) Appropriating Feminism? Feminist Entanglements with Neoliberalism, Racism, International Politics and
Military Interventions Contemporary Racisms Equality and Justice Migrants and the City, part 2 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives Work and Occupations: Science Careers
Research Training I (SOZ-MA-9) Ethnografic Theories, part 2 Migrants and the City, part 2
Research Training II (SOZ-MA-10) Ethnografic Theories, part 2 Migrants and the City, part 2
Supervision of MA Thesis (SOZ10-MA-11) n/a
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3.5 MA Program Economic and financial Sociology – Modules
Basics and theories of economic sociology (WF-MA-1)
n/a
Labor and organization (WF-MA-2)
Work and Occupations: Science Careers
Economic markets and cultures (WF-MA-3)
n/a
Money, banks and financial markets (WF-MA-4)
The regulation of financial markets: sociological and political economy perspectives
Political governance and institutional embedding (WF-MA-5)
n/a
Logic the social research (WF-MA-6)
Research Design (Claudius Wagemann)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets (Claudius Wagemann)
Elective part (WF-MA-7)
Ethnografic Theories, part 2 (Endre Danyi) Migrants and the City, part 2 (Anna Amelina)
Research Practice WF-MA-9b
n/a
Final module (WF-MA-10)
n/a
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4. Academic Staff
Anna Amelina, Junior Prof. Dr. – Sociology of Migration
Sandra Buchler, Dr. Research Associate – Quantitative Analyses of Social Change
Endre Danyi, Dr. Research Associate – Methods of Qualitative Interpretive Social Research
Sergiu Gherghina, Dr. Research Associate – State and Politics in Germany in a European Context
Marija Grujic, Sc. Research Associate – Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies
Heather Hofmeister, Prof., Ph.D. – Sociology of Work
Ben Kamis, MSc.I.R. Research Associate – International Relations and Theories of Global Orders
Eszter Kollar, Dr. Research Associate – International Political Theory
Kira Kosnick, Prof. Dr. – Sociology of Culture and Migration
Anne-Kathrin Kronberg, Ph.D. Research Associate – Sociology of Work
Helma Lutz, Prof. Dr. – Sociology of Women’s and Gender Studies
Matthias Thiemann, Junior Prof. Dr. – Sociology of the Financial Market, Banks and Money
Claudius Wagemann, Prof. Dr. - Methods Qualitative Empirical Social Research
For further information about office hours, email contact, research interests and more please check the LSF
or the academic websites that can be acceesed via the faculty’s website.