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Seminar
SoSe 20: (METH) The Politics of Social Inequalities
Swen Hutter, Christoph Nguyen
Information for students
Important: This course will take place as an Online-Course. It will be taught using both synchronous and asynchronous teaching formats.
Detailed information will be made available by the lecturer via Blackboard after the enrollment on Campus Management.
If you don’t have access to Campus Management or Blackboard but want to partake in the course, please write an e-mail to the lecturer.
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Detailed information will be made available by the lecturer via Blackboard after the enrollment on Campus Management.
If you don’t have access to Campus Management or Blackboard but want to partake in the course, please write an e-mail to the lecturer.
Current Information about changes related to COVID-19 can be viewed at the Institute’s Website. close
Comments
The seminar focuses on the link between social inequalities (most importantly, in terms of social class, education, and gender) and political mobilization in contemporary European societies. Specifically, the students will get to know scholarly work on long-term trends in social inequalities, perceptions of inequalities and their structuring effects on political participation. To what extent and why are social inequalities perceived as unfair? To what extent and why are they ‘translated’ into unequal rates of participation and what modes of participation (ranging from electoral participation via protest to political consumerism) are related to what kind of inequalities?Apart from discussing the relevant literature, the students will also study the analytical tools needed to study these questions. Focusing on R and key datasets, students will be able to develop basic quantitative research skills and use them to explore course-relevant questions. No prior experience with statistical methodology is expected or required. close
Suggested reading
Armingeon K. & Schädel L. (2015). Social Inequality in Political Participation: The Dark Sides of Individualisation. West European Politics 38(1): 1–27.
Lijphart A. (1997). Unequal Participation: Democracy’s Unresolved Dilemma. American Political Science Review 91(1): 1–14.
Oesch D. (2008b). The Changing Shape of Class Voting. European Societies 10(3): 329–355 close
12 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2020-04-20 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-04-27 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-05-04 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-05-11 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-05-18 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-05-25 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-06-08 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-06-15 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-06-22 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-06-29 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-07-06 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2020-07-13 16:00 - 18:00