Advanced Knowledge, Organization and Politics

The aim of the course is for students to acquire and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and competencies forming the basics of the MA specialization in Knowledge, organization and politics.

The demonstration of the fulfilment of the learning goals is done through the project work.

As such, the project work should demonstrate that students have acquired the ability to independently identify and analyze cases and settings where knowledge, politics and organization interact.

The project should hence demonstrate:

 Knowledge:

• An overview of the core sociological research literature within the thematic field of knowledge, organization and politics provided through readings of a variety of exemplary cases.
• Knowledge of central analytical approaches to the thematic field of knowledge, organization and politics 

Skills:

• To identify and analyze one or more empirical case(s) or settings which exemplifies how

• To state a relevant research problem which relates to the course aims and course content.

• To choose, motivate and apply central concepts from the literature to the analysis of the selected empirical cases and situations.

• To generate adequate empirical data, perform a structured analysis of these data through the lens of relevant analytical perspectives and to reflect methodologically on their own knowledge production during the project work.

Competencies:

• To thoroughly compare and contrast key analytical perspectives

• To assess practical consequences of their analysis for key actors, issues, and problems within and across organizational fields where relations between knowledge and politics is important.