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How does society enter the subject and how does
the subject, despite all external influences, develop into a
self-determined and distinct individual? How do social integration and
individual development in democratic societies interrelate? How are
sociocultural orders created, stabilized, transformed in practice? How
do collective horizons of significance grow to become a matter of
course?
As members of this research unit, our joint interest is the
analysis of the microfoundations and psychosocial effects of sociation.
At the focus are social situations, interaction orders and institutional
practices as well as subjectification, individuation and socialization
processes. Concentrating on these levels of the social, we do not reduce
social reproduction to intentional, rational or calculated action.
However, we see a whole spectrum of experience, knowledge forms and
involvements, which equally includes the unconscious as well as implicit
or embodied knowledge.
Microsociology, socialization research and
social psychology unite conceptual, theoretical and methodological
foundations which include interpretative, praxeological and structural
approaches as well as post-colonial analysis which also examines
critically culture and ideology.
Our goal, in research as in
teaching, is to relate the many and varied dimensions of an observable
and experiencable sociality to social conditions and processes of
change. We are aimed at exploring them in a concrete and empirical
manner by means of interpretative approaches, whereby the focus of the
investigation may be on gender relations, generational orders, intimate
groups, such as families, or vulnerable groups.
Courses
The research unit is responsible in
teaching for the modules on “Culture, Subject, Identity” in the
re-accredited Bachelor programme in Sociology and “Microsociology,
Social Psychology, and Culture” in the re-accredited Masters programme
in Sociology.
Aspects of social psychology, socialization theory and
microsociology are also addressed in the basic science and educational
science modules in the teaching degree programmes, (e.g. Module C “Education“
– areas of specialization 2 “Social, Cultural and Gender-specific
Living and Learning Conditions” and 3 “Communication and Conflict”).
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterlüty
Institute of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe University Frankfurt
Westend Campus - PEG Building
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Postal address:
60629 Frankfurt am Main
P.O. Box 10 (PEG Building)
Germany
Executive Director
Prof. Dr. Lars Meier
Contact: soziologie@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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