• Workshop "Theoriebildung und Theorieprüfung in der analytisch-empirischen Soziologie"

  The Academy for Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie) has set up a working group on “Methodology of the Social Sciences” to discuss the methodological foundations of theory building and empirical research. The kick-off workshop will take place on September 6th and 7th, 2023 at JGU Mainz and will deal with theory building and theory testing in analytical-empirical sociology. Basic methodological principles and current challenges will be discussed. In addition to other specialist lectures, there are two roundtables on the relevance of replicative research for the testing and further development of theories and on teaching analytical-empirical sociological theory and social science methodology in the course. Registration deadline is July 31, 2023 and you can find more information here.

• Methods workshop of the Reconstructive Social Work Network

  The 17th nationwide method workshop of the Reconstructive Social Work Network (Netzwerk Rekonstruktive Soziale Arbeit) will take place this year at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. It is organized by the Reconstructive Social Work Network, the DGSA Research Section, the DGSA Doctoral Funding Specialist Group, the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and the RheinMain Research Institute for Social Work. In 10 parallel research workshops, the participants work on different empirical materials.
  Importantly, they offer free childcare by qualified staff at all workshop times. The workshop will take place on 14 - 19 September 2023 and you can register and find more information here. Registration deadline is 15.07.2023.

• Qualitative-methodical research workshop: AQUA e.V.

  AQUA-Netzwerkstatt e.V. stands for "Working group with a qualitative approach". The AQUAs were founded in July 2003 at an offline meeting in Berlin. They are a mixed group and all work with qualitative approaches, but with a wide variety of methods. They meet every 14 days on Zoom to work on the individual concerns of a group member together. This can be the coding of a transcript, the processing of methodological questions, reflecting on the status of your own research project, the structure of the dissertation, the relationship with the supervisor, etc. Currently there are 7 people on a waitinglist and therefore a second group will be founded. They look forward to further interested parties so that the continuity of the cooperation can be ensured.
  You can read more information here.

• Online series on the methods and analytical perspectives of historical sociology

  This summersemester, there is an online lecture series about methods and analytical perspectives in the historical sociology. It always takes place on a Wednesday between 18 and 19:30. Attendance is for free.
  You can find more information here.

• GESIS Training

  Yearwide, GESIS offers several trainings on research methods, both quantitative and qualitative. These trainings take place in Cologne, Mannheim, or online and there is a varied offer concerning language and time investment.
  Examples of topics are Grounded Theory, Questionnaire Design, or Computational Social Science with R. More information is available here.

Due to holidays there will be no newsletter in August