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Research master's "Sociology and Social Research" at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University
by Sprecher der Methodensektion 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Research master's "Sociology and Social Research" at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University The Department of Sociology and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) at Utrecht University offer a two-year research master's program "Sociology and Social Research" that is completely taught in English. Rather than being a "track" in a broader program in the behavioral and social sciences, this is the only specialized research master's program in sociology in the Netherlands. The research master's program has a clear profile, offering structured and systematic training in theoretically and methodologically advanced research in sociology and the social sciences in general. Special features of the program include: - A problem-driven approach with a substantive focus on topics such as social networks and social capital, social integration, stratification and inequality, households, organizations. - A strong focus on the integration of social theory, empirical research, and methods of data-analysis. - In various courses, students gain extensive hands on experience in state of the art social science data analysis. - Students gain hands on experience in writing a publishable research article in English: the master's thesis that completes the program is written in the format of a publishable research article. In fact, many students do indeed submit their thesis or a revised and adapted version of their thesis to a journal and quite some of these submissions are accepted for publication. Meanwhile, research articles that have developed from master's theses of the program have appeared in or are accepted for publication in journals like Social Forces, Social Networks, Journal of Marriage and the Family, European Union Politics, and others. Students regularly present their master's thesis at international conferences outside the Netherlands. Quite some students meanwhile gained prizes and awards for their theses. The quality of the program can be inferred, among other things, from numerous and consistently very favorable external evaluations of research and teaching in Sociology at Utrecht University and the ICS. For example, sociology at Utrecht University is repeatedly ranked highest and obtains excellent scores in the authoritative comparative assessments of Dutch research programs in sociology that are carried out regularly under the auspices of the Quality Assurance Department of the Association of Dutch Universities, including the recent 2008/2009 Research Assessment Sociology. Another well-known annual ranking, widely used by incoming students, is provided by the Dutch weekly ELSEVIER and includes field-specific rankings based on a survey among all full professors and associate professors in the particular field in the Netherlands. In the most recent 2008 ELSEVIER survey, Utrecht has been chosen as the overall best Sociology Department in the Netherlands and also as the Department with the best master's program and the best teachers in Sociology. Students in the program benefit from intensive supervision. Instructors involved in teaching the program and supervising students inlude prominent researcher from the Department of Sociology and the ICS such as Vincent Buskens, Henk Flap, Tanja van der Lippe, Ineke Maas, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Anne-Rigt Poortman, Werner Raub, Rene Torenvlied, Frank van Tubergen, Beate Volker, Jeroen Weesie, and others. Students likewise benefit from much interaction and collaboration in a relatively small group of peers. Drop out rates of students from the program are very low and almost all students entering the program do complete it in due time within two years. The profile of the program ensures that the labor market position of alumni is excellent: students who have completed the program are very successful in acquiring subsequent positions as PhD students at the ICS or elsewhere in and outside the Netherlands, as researchers in institutes and organizations outside the university system, as trainees, etc. "Sociology and Social Research" is part of the integrated graduate training program of the ICS that likewise comprises research master's programs at the universities of Groningen and Nijmegen and a jointly taught PhD program. Students can thus attend selected courses in Groningen and are well-prepared, for example, for an application for a position as PhD student at the ICS after having completed "Sociology and Social Research". The target group of students consists of promising students with a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent period of at least three years of undergraduate study and qualifications that justify the expectation of successful completion of the program in due time. This includes students with a BA Sociology or Social Sciences, broadly conceived and including Economics, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Demography, and (Social) Psychology. While the program is designed for students with above-average grades, motivation of students and affinity with the program have proven to be important. Quite some students with good but clearly less than excellent grades from previous studies have entered and enjoyed the program and have completed it with very good results, due to a clearly structured curriculum, sound supervision, and interaction and collaboration with peers. Students from outside the Netherlands are explicitly encouraged to apply and can easily follow the program since it is taught in English. About 30-50% of the students are students from outside the Netherlands, up to now including students from Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, various countries in Central and Eastern Europe as well as students from, e.g., India and Taiwan. Admission to the program is selective. "Sociology and Social Research" is one of Utrecht University's Prestige master's programs and thus benefits from special funds of Utrecht University. Some teaching and research assistantships are available for talented applicants. Also, funding is available for participation in summer schools outside the Netherlands (for example, Essex, Ljubljana, and Ann Arbor). Each year, a new group of students enters the program. We are currently searching for talented candidates for the academic year 2010/2011. Courses for this group will start on September 1, 2010. The DEADLINES FOR APPLICATIONS for the academic year 2010/2011 are December 1, 2009 (early bird deadline) and March 1, 2010. The number of new students per year is limited to 15-20. Quite some students use the early bird deadline, since this may enhance chances of admission. Detailed information on the program - such as courses taught and an overview of projects for master's thesis projects - is available at www.uu.nl/sasr and www.fss.uu.nl/graduateschool as well as www.uu.nl/graduateschools/sbs Information about the Department of Sociology of Utrecht University is available at www.fss.uu.nl/sociology Please use gradschool(a)fss.uu.nl for any inquiries about the program and about admission procedures. Please don't hesitate to draw the attention of talented students to the program. Also, please don't hesitate to forward this message to other colleagues who might wish to inform students on the program. Werner Raub Coordinator research master's program "Sociology and Social Research" Werner Raub | Department of Sociology/ICS and (temporary) Department of Methodology and Statistics | Utrecht University | Heidelberglaan 2 | 3584 CS Utrecht | Netherlands | phone +31-(0)30-253 2101 (Sociology) and 4438 (Methodology and Statistics) | w.raub(a)uu.nl | www.fss.uu.nl/soc/raub | www.fss.uu.nl/sociology | www.fss.uu.nl/soc/iscore | Sociology and Social Research www.uu.nl/sasr -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christof Wolf Sprecher der Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Tel. 0621 1246-153, -197

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Neue Stellenausschreibung auf der Homepage
by Sprecher Methodensektion 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Liebe Kollegin, lieber Kollege, auf der Homepage der Methoden-Sektion finden sich wieder neue Stellenausschreibungen. http://www.soziologie.de/index.php?id=111 Beste Grüße i.A. Heike Antoni Sekretariat Christof Wolf ------------------------- Sprecher der Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung der DGS

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aktuelles Programm: Wissen - Wissenschaft -Organisation, Bonn, 19. - 21.10.2009
by Ohly, H. Peter 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Sehr geehrte Listenteilnehmende, hiermit teile ich das aktuelle Programm der bevorstehenden Dt. ISKO-Tagung mit Mit freundlichen Gruessen, With kind regards, Sincères salutations, H. Peter OHLY ------------------------------------- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Abt. Fachinformation für die Sozialwissenschaften / Lennestr. 30 / 53113 BONN / Germany / Tel.: +49-228-2281-542 / Fax.: +49-228-2281-4542 / mailto:peter.ohly@gesis.org ATTENTION: my other official business mail addresses are no longer valid! http://www.gesis.org/SocioGuide / http://www.isko.org/people.html Visitors Address: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Bereich Produkte & Marketing / Dreizehnmorgenweg 42 / 53175 BONN (Metro-Stop: Platz der Vereinten Nationen / Olof-Palme-Allee) Aktuelles Programm zur 12. Tagung der Deutschen Sektion der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Wissensorganisation "Wissen - Wissenschaft -Organisation" Tagungsort: Universitätsclub Bonn e.V. , Konviktstr.9 , 53113 Bonn (in Zusammenarbeit mit GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für die Sozialwissenschaften und dem Universitätsclub Bonn e.V.) Montag, 19.10.2009 Tutorium: Ontologiesprachen (Y. Sure) H. P. Ohly: Wissen und Organisation (Eröffnung) J. Blasius: Informationsverhalten K. Weber: Informationsnachhaltigkeit K. Weishaupt; U. Müller; U. Herb Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätsmessung - Determinanten der Akzeptanz für Open Access? (Open-Access-Zeitschriften als Schutt-Abladeplatz für minderwertige Beiträge? Die Frage ihrer Qualität und ihre Bedeutung für die Akzeptanz / Peer-Review-Verfahren / Die Bedeutung von Impact-Maßen) P. Mayr; P. Putschke; P. Schaer; Y. Sure: Mehrwertdienste für das Information Retrieval: das Projekt IRM W. Shen; M. Stempfhuber: Embedding discussion in online publications: Two roles in supporting eSocial Science in sowiport.de I. Dahlberg: Desiderate für die Wissensorganisation J. Lindenthal; E. Scheven: ISO 25964 : "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies" M. Sondermann: "Monitoring der Exzellenzinitiative: Beobachtungen zur Startphase von Graduiertenschulen und Exzellenzclustern" B. Hopp: Open Access in der Wissenschaftslandschaft W. Dees: Ansätze zur Bewertung von Publikations-Orten der Erziehungswissenschaft S. Dücker; U. Roth: Wissenslandkarte Berufsbildungsforschung Führung durch Bonn Empfang im Uni-Club Dienstag, 20.10.2009 U. Riege: Fachinformation und Forschungsevaluierung O. Bidlo; C. J. Englert: Wissen verbindet - verbindet Wissen. Der Open-Source-Gedanke als Vergemeinschaftungsimpuls H. Czap: Erkennen durch künstliche Systeme H.-J. Püttmann: Anreichern von Ontologien durch sprachlichesWissen zur Suchunterstützung in Vorschlags-Funktionen R. San Segundo: Invalidity of a General Theory on knowledge organization K. Raghavan: Emerging areas in IS and education B. Zapilko; Y. Sure: Neue Möglichkeiten für die Wissensorganisation durch die Kombination von Digital Library Verfahren mit Standards des Semantic Web K. Prätor: Logik als Organisation von Handlungen F. Boteram: Stratifizierte Typisierung semantischer Relationen in integrierten Systemen der Wissensorganisation H. Paepcke; J. Harfensteller: Building an Epistemic Community 2.0 W. Koch: Vokabularien und WebServices J. Hubrich: Vom Stringmatching zur Begriffsexploration: das Potential integrierter begrifflicher Interoperabilität S. Gradmann, M. Olensky: Semantische Kontextualisierung von Museumsbeständen in Europeana C. Biester: Der intrinsisch motivierte Professor - ein Vexierbild E. Ammann: A Conception of Knowledge and Knowledge Dynamics in an Enterprise J. Bertram: Bedarf an Enterprise - Search - Lösungen - Eine Befragung österreichischer Großunternehmen J. Sieglerschmidt: Der Zauber ubiquitaeren Wissens G. Rahmstorf: Philosophie als Wissensgebiet M. Zens: Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Modelle, Komponenten, Standardisierung M. Braschler; B. Heuwing, T. Mandl, C. Womser-Hacker; J.Herget; P. Schäuble; J. Stuker: Evaluation der Suchfunktion deutscher Unternehmens-Websites Mitgliederversammlung der Dt. ISKO Empfang im Bonner Rathaus Mittwoch, 21.10.2009 L. Bornmann: Lässt sich die Qualität von Forschung messen? Empirische Ergebnisse zur Güte des Peer Review Verfahrens und zu bibliometrischen Indikatoren S. Hofhues; M. Kamper; T. Specht: Förderung des Wissensaustauschs unter Studierenden: die Augsburger Initiative w.e.b.Square M. Stempfhuber, B. Zapilko: A layered Model for Semantic Integration of Primary Data and Publications in Digital Libraries V. Dreier: Fotografien als empirische Daten T. Sporer; P. Meyer; M. Steinle: Technisch-organisatorische Einbettung informellen Lernens in das Universitätsstudium am Beispiel des Augsburger Begleitstudiums J. Hagenah; D. Becker: Überregionale Tageszeitungen: Eine aussterbende Informationsressource? E. Horvatic: Pädagogische Wissensorganisation K. M. Janowitz: Netographie A. Kovaleva: Psychologische Konstrukte C. Swertz: Das Moment der Negativität in der Wissensvermittlung: Beiträge aktueller Lerntheorien zur Informationswissenschaft U. Adler: Feministische Wissenschaftsorganisation H. Lietz: Diagnose von Emerging Science: Die Fälle "New Science of Networks" und Szientometrie S. Netscher: Informationsgehalt und - aussagekraft von dynamischen Modellen H. P. Ohly: Wissens- und Informationssoziologie Abschlusspanel: Wissensorganisation zwischen Modellierung und Selbstorganisation Weitere Informationen: http://isko.gesis.org/isko2009 H.Peter Ohly, Bonn; Tel.:+49 (228) 2281-542 peter.ohly(a)gesis.org

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Herbsttagung
by Sprecher der Methodensektion 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich möchte Sie auf die gemeinsame Tagung der ASI und Methodensektion am 20. und 21.11.2009 in Berlin aufmerksam machen. Das Programm finden Sie anbei. Um planen zu können, ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich. Diese erfolgt unter: www.asi-ev.org Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Gleichzeitig darf ich die Mitglieder der Sektion zu unserer Mitgliederversammlung einladen. Sie wird am Samstag, den 21.11. , im Anschluss an die Tagung stattfinden. Eine Tagesordnung werde ich Ihnen noch zukommen lassen. Beste Grüße Christof Wolf -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christof Wolf Sprecher der Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Tel. 0621 1246-153, -197

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