Welcome to the Institute of Sociology in Chemnitz

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Overview

• Information for prospective students
• First aid for first-year students
• We introduce ourselves
• Professorships of the institute
• Academic programmes & course structure
• Our major themes
• MethodenKompetenzZentrum

Information for prospective students: Studying sociology in Chemnitz

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First aid for first-year students

Class schedule 1. Sem. Bachelor Soziologie (PDF)

We introduce ourselfs: The Institute of Sociology in Chemnitz

Sociology has been taught at the University of Technology (TU) in Chemnitz, a city with a rich cultural and industrial tradition, since 1992. In 1996, an independent Institute of Sociology was founded that currently employs about 40 academic teaching and research staff working for seven chairs, junior professorships and workspaces: (Link to the professorships of the institute)

Academic Programmes & Course Structure

Receiving wide academic as well as public attention, the large amount of research done in a variety of fields has distinguished the Institute since its beginnings. Irrespective of all the differences concerning the focus of their theoretical and / or empirical work, the sociologists of the Institute are united by common interests:

Our major themes: Work/Technology, Health, Globalisation

In recent years, three central and strongly interconnected “pillars“ of sociological research have evolved in teaching and even more so in research, which will be further broadened in the future:

• Work, Organisation and Technology: work activities, corporate organisation, technology and media in the informatised knowledge and service society
• Health and Health Care Systems: health behaviour, the effects of social change on health structures and health technologies
• Globalisation and Social Change: changes in societal structures (networks, organisations, movements, socio-cultural structures, etc.) within an international context

Methodenkompetenzzentrum

Das MethodenKompetenzZentrum (MKZ) hat sich zur Aufgabe gemacht mit Rat und Tat bei methodischen Herausforderungen zur Seite zu stehen. Durch ein vielfältiges Angebot von Workshops, Vorträgen und methodischen Beratungen wollen wir eigene Forschungsvorhaben kompetent unterstützen.

Best wishes,
The team of the Institute of Sociology of Chemnitz