| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)keine (die Zulassung zum Studium vorausgesetzt)
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| Original study plan |
Master's programme Social Economics 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
- Students are able to critically reflect on social science comparisons and analyse their functions as well as methodological challenges.
- They can assess the application of comparative methods to social science research questions.
- They can develop suitable comparative research designs for their own research questions.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Identify different types of qualitative and quantitative comparative approaches and analyse their suitability for specific research contexts (k4).
- Conduct diachronic comparisons and methodologically reflect on temporal developments (k4).
- Examine interdependencies between political and societal systems and recognise their challenges for comparative analysis (k5).
- Develop policy typologies and apply them to the analysis and evaluation of political processes (k6).
- Apply and critically evaluate research techniques used in comparative analysis (k5).
- Design and implement their own comparative research projects (k6).
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- Functions and theoretical foundations of comparisons in social science and societal contexts.
- Methodological foundations of comparative analysis, particularly classical small-N comparative designs (Mill’s Methods).
- Principles of periodisation and temporal structuring in comparative research.
- Research perspectives from historical social science and their relevance for societal comparisons.
- Global interdependencies as both a challenge and opportunity for comparative analysis.
- Tools and techniques for applied research in comparative studies (e.g. benchmarking, spider maps, scatter plots, etc.).
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| Criteria for evaluation |
(*)Mündliche Präsentation und Moderation der Seminardiskussion zu einer inhaltlichen Einheit der LVA. Schriftliche Ausarbeitung oder Dokumentation dieser inhaltlichen Diskussion, Abschlussklausur, mündliche Beiträge zur Seminardiskussion.
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| Methods |
(*)Kurze Präsentationen von der LVA-Leitung, gemeinsame Erarbeitung der Funktionsweise des Vergleichs in Beispielen verschiedener Erscheinungsformen vergleichender Analyse, Diskussion von Methodentexten zur Rolle des Vergleichs
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| Language |
German or English |
| Study material |
(*)Die Literatur wird von den Lehrenden zu Beginn der LVA bekanntgegeben.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
(*)Ist gemeinsam mit
905FSUEDSGK15: VU Forschungsdesigns einschließlich Evaluationsforschung (3 ECTS)
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905FSUESRVK15: VU Surveyforschung (3 ECTS)
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905QUQUQALK15: VU Qualitative Datenauswertung (3 ECTS) äquivalent zu:
928MRSMMRMK10: KS Methodologie - Reflexion der sozialwissenschaftlichen Methoden (6 ECTS)
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