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10:00-10:45  Paolo Bellucci—What Drives Electoral Behavior?

11:00-11:45  Pedro Magalhães—Explaining Electoral Turnout

11:45-12:30  Paul Beck—Global Patterns of Political Intermediation

2:00-2:45     Robert Mattes—Attitudes Toward Democracy and the Meanings of Democracy

2:45-3:30     Gerardo Maldonado—The Attitudinal Consequences of Interpersonal and Media  Communication

4:00-4:45     Richard Gunther —Intermediation and Electoral Change:  The Case of Spain

4:45-5:30     General discussion of principal findings and theoretical implications

Constructing Global Forms and Comparisons

Globalization has complicated the wisdom of comparative research. It has produced an acute awareness of transnational connections, made the assumption of independent cases less tenable, and reinforced our tendency to compare across contexts in a temporally and spatially compressed world which provides us with a wide array of readily available theoretical tools but shortens the time span of decision-making and reflection associated with writing and conceptual transfer. The talk speculates about the global, the urban and a renewed commitment to comparisons in a discussion of planned residential developments, commonly known as gated communities, which emerged almost simultaneously in various parts of the world and constitute a global form.

Do we experience a new century of protest and violent unrest? This panel discussion will inquire why people take to the streets and why they engage in riots or political violence. We will discuss differences in national settings, the role of the Internet and the new media and the question how mobilization and political violence can spread over a country.

Panelists

• Randall Collins, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and former president of the American Sociological Association
• Debra Minkoff, Professor and Chair of Barnard College, Department of Sociology, ColumbiaUniversity and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
• Dieter Rucht, Head of the completed Research Group Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization at the Social Science Center (WZB) Berlin and former Honorary Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin

Moderator

• Klaus Eder, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin, former director of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)

The panel discussion is followed by a reception. The event is organized by the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). For more information please contact: anne.nassauer@staff.hu-berlin.de

Please register with Anne Nassauer via anne.nassauer@staff.hu-berlin.de until Thursday,
January 31st.

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Neue Vortragsreihe im Lehrbereich Diversity and Social Conflict:

„Umstrittene Lektüren – Wissenszirkulation zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis“

In der Veranstaltungsreihe wollen wir provokative oder umstrittene Bücher aus unserem Themenbereich Diversity and Social Conflict kommentieren und mit den Studierenden und MitarbeiterInnen des Sowi-Instituts sowie allen anderen Interessierten diskutieren. Dabei wollen wir insbesondere Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter von Berliner NGOs oder anderen zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, Gruppen oder auch den Gewerkschaften einladen, wissenschaftliche Bücher aus ihrer Sicht zu kommentieren. Zum anderen sollen auch Publikationen und Studien, die in einem eher praktischen Kontext entstanden sind, von WissenschaftlerInnen kommentiert werden. Wir wollen damit als Lehrbereich auf die Vielzahl von Neuerscheinungen zu den Themen Migration, Rassismus, Diversität, Intersektionalität, Citizenship und deren Zusammenhänge mit städtischen Räumen, Arbeitsverhältnissen und Prekarität eingehen und diese auch außerhalb der Lehrveranstaltungen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zur Diskussion stellen.

Wir laden herzlich ein zur ersten Veranstaltung unserer Reihe am:

Mittwoch, den 25.04.2012, 18-20 Uhr, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, HU-Berlin

Die Parallelklasse – Berliner Schulen und der Mythos von der Chancengleichheit

Lektüre: Patrick Bauer: Die Parallelklasse. Achmed, ich und die anderen – Die Lüge von der Chancengleichheit, München: Luchterhand, 2011

Vorgestellt und Kommentiert von Nurten Karakaş (ASH Berlin), Mitautorin der Studie Vielfalt im Lehrerzimmer

Relational sociology is a relatively new approach in (mainly North-American) sociology. It springs from sociological network research, but incorporates a systematic concern for culture and meaning. Starting with the publication of Harrison White’s Identity and Control (1992), relational sociology views networks as dynamic socio-cultural constructs of identities linked in stories. In theoretical treatises and empirical applications, it studies the interplay of networks with categories, roles, narratives, institutions, collective identities, artistic and academic creativity, and stratification.

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Civil-military relations in Russia - why shifting to an all-volunteer force continues to be
problematic

May 14 | Nadja Douglas (2011)

May 28 | Frederike Esche (2010)

June 4 | Evin Deniz, Autonomous University of Madrid (Guest)

A struggle against displacement as a politicization process of the dwellers of Dikmen Valley/Ankara/Turkey

July 9 | Jan Ullrich (2011)

The workshop will start with an introductory lecture and Q&A session. After that, students are encouraged to present their own projects and highlight methodological issues arising from their research design, which we will then jointly discuss.