Lehrende:
Dr. Natalia Paula Besedovsky
Veranstaltungsart:
Vertiefungsseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
V-SEM
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 24
Weitere Informationen:
B.A.-Soziologie Hauptfach: VM - Spezielle Soziologien
B.A.-Soziologie Nebenfach: VM - Spezielle Soziologien
M.A.-Lehramt Sozialwissenschaften: VM - Spezielle Soziologien
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
How do we attribute value? How can value be measured? How are objects and people shaped or constructed through rating and ranking? Ratings, Rankings and other valuation tools are becoming ubiquitous. They reduce complexity, help sort society and are increasingly used to make decisions. This course will explore the role of ratings, rankings and evaluations in contemporary capitalism. The basic premise of a sociological perspective on valuation is to explore valuation not primarily as a solution but as a problem of contemporary societies. The course will explore the tensions, conflicts and politics of valuation practices as well as the inequalities these create or reproduce. In the course, we will focus on three areas: First, valuation and the economy, or the economization of valuation: is something only considered valuable if it has a price? Second, valuation of nature and climate change risks: can valuation help the climate crisis or does it more harm than good? Third, valuation of “immaterial” things: data, ideas, risks, imaginations.
Lernziel:
- Introduction to valuation studies
- Understanding and discussion of socio-scientific texts as well as the classification of texts in the context of general sociological debates
- Presentation skills
- Practicing precise, factual and respectful reasoning in the seminar situation in English
- Writing short exzerpts
- Writing a literature review or an essay
Vorgehen:
Procedure and examination performance
This seminar is a digital course over Zoom. We will also use the OpenOlat plattform to upload the exzerpts and additional literature.
The seminar is based on the discussion of the texts and thus requires thorough and critical reading as well as active participation. For each session, you are required to write a short excerpt (1 page) with 2-4 content-related or further questions, which you submit 2 days in advance. Each participant takes on the sponsorship of one seminar session and introduces the text. This introduction is not intended to be a summary of the text passages, but rather an expansion, which can be done by reading and presenting an additional appropriate text (or section of text), by referring to a current topic, but also in another creative form. In addition, you will develop discussion-guiding questions for the seminar and lead through the lesson.
Literatur:
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Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen:
Requirements:
Participate 80% of the time, prepare questions for each session, write literature review or essay (12-15 pages), due 15.03.2022.
Please hand in your literature review or essay to natalia.besedovsky@uni-hamburg.de, as well as a hard copy to Studienbüro Sozialwissenschaften.
Prüfungsart: Essay/Literature Review
Bewertungsschema: RPO (benotet)
Umfang
B.A.-Soziologie Hauptfach (6 LP): 12-15 pages
B.A.-Soziologie Nebenfach (5 LP): 12-15 pages
B.A.-Lehramt Sozialwissenschaften (5 LP): 12-15 pages
Weitere (unbenotete) Studienleistungen: Participate 80% of the time, prepare questions for each session, 4 seminar summaries (1-2 pages)
Abgabetermin: 15.03.2022
