Kursinformation

Urban Sociology

The emphasis of sociology of disaster  focuses on the precipitating event to the social structure of critical mass within community that leads to the changing routine of social structure.  The past decade alone has seen multiple disasters around the world, the historical lesson also shows that after the end of Second World War in Europe, few studies have been available on how to reconstruct the cities. Historical attempts to define and interpret disaster in sociological terms are thus necessary in order to raise questions about the social order and resilience after disaster. Recent research on social networks  and organisational forms of association related to disasters from European and International cases are highlighted.

Training of different aspects of project management; skills in discussion, communication and documentation of project; development of skills to define work breakdown structures, to structurize a complex project into work packages and of time schedules; students learn special demands and procedures in situations of disaster prevention and be able to develop appropriate organizational measures in disaster management; students learn basic assumptions on the social behaviour with main focus on the urban dimension on social actions.