| Termin/e |
Mi, 17.09.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 3.B47
Mi, 24.09.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 01.10.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 08.10.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 15.10.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 22.10.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 29.10.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 05.11.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 12.11.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 19.11.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 26.11.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 03.12.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 10.12.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220
Mi, 17.12.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Inseliquai 10 INE 220 |
| Inhalt |
This is a two-semester course (the second semester is optional). The first semester provides an overview of the research and literature on the topic; in the second semester, you will conduct your own practical research project.
People make terrible mistakes all the time. We marry the wrong person, governments take misguided military actions, corporations invest enormous resources in inferior or undesirable products, we incur excessive debt to acquire consumer goods and services, we underestimate risks, and we miscalculate probabilities—and often pay a high price for doing so. Human well-being has suffered greatly as a result of poor decision-making; and differences in the overall ability to judge and decide can stratify societies and lead to economic and social inequality.
Judgment is defined as the ability to make evaluations, discern connections, and draw conclusions about the world. Throughout life, humans must be able to make sound judgments on a wide variety of issues to function as social beings. Decision-making is the process by which someone chooses between several alternative courses of action. These two aspects are closely related: Poor judgment often leads to poor decisions, which in turn can lead to unfavorable outcomes.
The ability to make good judgments and sound decisions has been the focus of psychology and economics for some time. Over the past decades, researchers in the field of "Judgment and Decision Making" (JDM) have compiled a wealth of findings, theories, and recommendations for action that describe how ordinary people shape their choice processes.
However, this field of study has left little trace in sociology—and conversely, sociology has so far exerted little influence on JDM research more broadly. Sociological research on choice emphasizes how features of the social environment shape individual outcomes, but typically not people’s underlying choices or decision processes that may lead to those outcomes. In this course, we will examine the sociological and cultural aspects of JDM, as well as understand the emerging discipline of choice architecture and “nudging” from a sociological perspective. |