On the following subpages you will find information on sociological topics. The topics of the individual sub-pages are based on the module plan of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, North Rhine-Westphalia and reflect topics taught in the basic studies (General Sociology) and in the main studies (Urban Sociology, Police History and Sociology of Violence). All subject areas are subdivided into lessons, to which exercises are offered for learning control and consolidation of the subject area.
The sociological topics covered by SozTheo are as follows:
General Sociology
The following lessons can be found under general sociology:
- Demographic change
- Exclusion
- Globalisation and modernisation
- Migration and integration
- Norms and values
- Social roles and role conflicts
- Social inequality
- Social action
- Socialisation
- Social structure
- Sociology of the group
- Status and habitus
Urban sociology
- Security in local contexts
- Space and (in)security
- Segregation
- Video surveillance
History of the German police
- Police in the Weimar Republic
- Police under National Socialism
- Police involvement in the war of annihilation
- Rebuilding of the police after 1945
- Police and protest movements since the 1960s
- Cop Culture
- “Being different” within the police
Sociology and violence
- Violence and the police
- Violence against the police
- Police violence
