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SoSe 22: Global Inequality

Lukas Hakelberg

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Rising inequality is a defining feature of our age. Scholars have traditionally studied inequality between countries, asking why some polities have grown rich while others remained poor, and inequality between people, asking why income and wealth is more or less concentrated among certain social groups within a given polity. Most recently, scholars have sought to integrate between and within country inequality to study global inequality. They want to understand better, how and why people’s position in the global income and wealth distribution has changed over time. For instance, why have East Asian middle classes improved their position over the past decades at the expense of the European working class? In this seminar we study the puzzles of between- and within-country inequality from a political economy perspective. The main goals are to familiarize you with the main explanations of global inequality and to enable you to come up with your own research designs for the study of inequality towards the end of the seminar. To this end, the seminar is divided into three main parts. In the first part, we familiarize ourselves with the seminar’s motivating puzzle (global inequality) and the main elements of research design in the social sciences. In the second part, we study some of the dominant explanations for between- and within-country inequality, systematically analyzing the research designs applied in the required readings. In the third part, we reverse the research design process. In a first step, you will put yourselves in the position of the author of an important work on inequality, developing the grant proposal that could have stood at the beginning of her research endeavor. In a second step, you will systematically help each other in getting from a research topic to a puzzle and research question that you can then use as a basis for a term paper or bachelor thesis. Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 14:00 - 16:00 13 Termine

Do, 21.04.2022 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Lukas Hakelberg