The students

• Can analyse concepts such as individualisation and secularisation, social structure, milieu and lifestyle research, growth and welfare
• Know structures and processes, patterns and models in social change in the spheres of geopolitics, demography, culture, social affairs, space, economy and digitalisation

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The following topics/contents will be covered in the course:

• Digital sphere
• Economic Sphere II: Growth and Welfare
• Economic sphere I: Work
• Spatial Sphere II: City and Countryside
• Spatial Sphere I: Ecology and Resources
• Social sphere III: Social structure, milieu, lifestyle
• Social sphere II: Violence, crime, death
• Social sphere I: Feminisation
• Cultural sphere: individualisation and secularisation
• Demographic sphere
• Geopolitical sphere: world politics and Europe
• Structures and processes, patterns and models in social change

Bacher, J./Grausgruber, A. et al. (2019): Sozialstruktur und Wertewandel in Österreich. Trends 1986-2016. Heidelberg: Springer VS.
Breit, G./Massing, P. (2017): Demokratietheorien. Schwalbach am Taunus: Wochenschau Verlag.
Marschall, S. (2013): Demokratie. Stuttgart: UTB.
Niedermaier, H. (2017): Wozu Demokratie. Politische Philosophie im Spiegel ihrer Zeit. Stuttgart: UTB.
Polak, R. (2011): Zukunft. Werte. Europa: Die Europäische Wertestudie 1990-2010: Österreich im Vergleich. Wien: Böhlau
Schmidt, M. (2019): Demokratietheorien. Eine Einführung. Heidelberg: Springer VS.

Interactive technical and application-oriented lecture and discussion, group work

Cumulative module examination
The module grade is calculated weighted by the ECTS credits of the individual courses (ILV - integrated lecture) of the module and results as follows:
ILV "Society in Change" - 3 ECTS

• Assessment type: Continuous assessment
• Assessment method/s: Participation in class, presentation, written final examination