Sociology of Gender
Prof. Dr. Marion Müller
Sebastian Moser - Karolin Mattes - Marion Müller
Profile of the research area
Sociology of gender differentiation mainly addresses two questions: i) whether members of a society categorize between male and female, and ii) in what kind of social situation they refer to it. Further, we explore how these differentiations are accomplished and what kind of social consequences they imply. Differences of gender are assumed to be mostly independent from biological characteristics and that these attributes vary due to historical and cultural context. Respectively it is neither essential to divide people into exactly two categories of gender and/or sex nor to make a distinction by reasons of physical differences. We assume that this principle of contingency also applies to other forms of categorizing people, namely by ethnic origin, social class or disability.
Team
Doctoral Candidates
Former Researchers
Research interests
- General sociology and Sociological Theory
- Sociology of Human Differentiation (especially gender, ethnicity and disability)
- Sociology of the body and Sociology of sports
- Interaction theory
- Sociology of pregnancy and childbirth
- Globalization and World Society Theory
Teaching
Courses in the summer semester 2019
Language of instruction in all courses is German.
BA Sociology
- Theory and Empirics of World Society (Cramer) – seminar (module So-B5.1)
- Introduction to sociological theory (Müller) - lecture and tutorial (module So-B1)
- Introduction to the sociology of human differentiation (Müller) - seminar (module So-B5.1)
- Colloquium (Müller) - module So-B8/So-M7
- Ethnography (Völkle) - research methods seminar and tutorial (module So-B4.3, only for BA major students)
MA Sociology with focul on empirical social research
- Categorization, quantification and comparisons from a perspective of a sociology of knowledge (Bennani) - seminar (module So-M5.2)
- Categorical boundaries in sport. Body and disability (Müller) - Training research project II (module So-M3)
- Kolloquium (Müller) - module So-B8/So-M7