Teaching

Summer term 2026

Courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme

PD Dr Susanne Martin:
(covering the professorship during the summer term)

Reading the classics: Hannah Arendt (seminar)

⇒ BASOZ 22 | Wednesday 08:00 am - 10:00 am

Classism: a critical review (seminar)

⇒ BASOZ 42, 43, 44, 45 | Wednesday 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm                                                                                         

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Time for Political Engagement (educational research)

⇒ BASOZ 51 | Wednesday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Dr Laura Boemke:

City. Countryside. Sociology – Perspectives on urban and rural spaces (seminar)

⇒ BASOZ 42, 43, 44, 45 | Thursday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Courses on the Master’s programme

PD Dr Susanne Martin:                                                                                                                                                  (covering the professorship during the summer term)

Analyses of Fascism in Early Critical Theory: Foundations and Contemporary Relevance (seminar)

⇒ MASOZ 10,0 30 | Tuesday 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Nazism in film (seminar)

⇒ MASOZ 10, 30 | Thursday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, every fortnight, starting in the second week of lectures

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Body, Economy, Reproduction (reading seminar)

⇒ MASOZ 10, 31, 34, GT 5 | Tuesday 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Postgraduate Seminar (seminar)

⇒ MASOZ 60a, 60b, IPS 900 | Thursday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, every fortnight, starting in the second week of lectures

Dr Laura Boemke:

Eastern Woman I Eastern Man. The (De-)Construction of Two Social Figures (seminar)

⇒ MASOZ 34 | Thursday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Winter term 2025/2026

Courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

The sociology of social inequality (seminar)

Do we live in a polarised society? (seminar)

Lecture series: ‘Key Issues in Sociology’ (lecture)                                                                               

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Authoritarianism: Theories and Findings (lecture)

Democracy in Crisis – Experiences and Interpretations (continuation of teaching research)                                     

Courses on the Master’s programme     

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

Fake News and the Crisis of Factuality: Theoretical and Contemporary Perspectives on Truth and Lies in Politics (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Authoritarian (Neo-)Liberalism: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (reading seminar)

Postgraduate Seminar (seminar)

Summer term 2025

Courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme

PD Dr Susanne Martin:
(covering the professorship during the summer term)

The Culture of Remembrance: Historical and Contemporary Debates (seminar)

Forms of poverty (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Democracy in Crisis: Experiences and Interpretations (educational research)

Dr Laura Boemke:

Power relations, crises, criticism: An introduction to the sociology of the welfare state (seminar)                         

Courses on the Master’s programme  

PD Dr Susanne Martin:                                                                                                                                                    (covering the professorship during the summer term)

Affekte und Affektpolitiken der Gegenwart (seminar)

Class and classism in autofictional works (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Postgraduate Seminar (seminar) 

Winter term 2024/2025

Courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

An Introduction to the Sociology of Social Inequality (seminar)

Sociology and National Socialism (seminar)

Lecture series: ‘Key Issues in Sociology’ (lecture)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Social engagement in times of crisis (continued: teaching research)

From (Post-)Fordism to the Multi-faceted Crisis (lecture)

Dr Laura Boemke:

An Introduction to the Sociology of Poverty: Perspectives, Developments, Controversies (seminar)

Courses on the Master’s programme  

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

Beyond private property? Readings on the structural transformation of property (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Emancipation: The history and current state of intersectional struggles for equality (seminar)

Graduate Seminar (seminar)

Summer term 2024

Courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

New divisions in an ageing society? An introduction to problem-centred interviewing, using intergenerational relations as an example (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Social engagement in times of crisis (educational research)

Courses on the Master’s programme  

Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk:

A threat to democracy (seminar)

Rethinking solidarity and participation (seminar)

PD Dr Stefanie Graefe:

Body Economies: On the Intersectionality of Reproductive Markets (seminar)

Graduate Seminar (seminar)