B_01 - Milieu Conflicts and Social Cohesion

06/2024 – 05/2029

Within the context of the first research focus of Research Area B, this work package (WP) examines the effects of socioeconomic and cultural divisions on social cohesion using the concept of social milieus. It subjects the hypothesis of a “drifting apart of society” to a systematic…

B_03 - Family Inequalities and the Evaluation of Social Justice

This work package (WP) addresses evaluations of fundamental status and distributional orders—such as the principles of equality, need, merit, and entitlement—and thereby contributes to the first guiding question of Research Area B concerning cohesion among unequal groups, for which the…

B_10 - Qualitative Panel: Milieu-Specific Practices of Endangering and Safeguarding Social Cohesion

06/2024 – 05/2029

This work package (WP) has been conducted since June 2020 in close cooperation between the sections Bremen and Göttingen and is being continued in the second funding phase of RISC with the inclusion of the Hamburg section. Building on international research on political polarization and…

C_05 - Planning for Climate-Neutral Cities as a Factor of Social Cohesion

This work package (WP) addresses the pressing societal challenge of planning climate-neutral cities and examines the role that social cohesion plays in urban development planning, as well as the effects that the implementation of such plans has on social cohesion. In doing so, the WP also…

D_04 - Youth as a Generation of Crisis? Socialization in Conflict and Transformation

06/2024-05/2029

This work package (WP) develops both a foundational and a knowledge-transfer-oriented profile for the relationship between youth and social cohesion. Within Priority Area 2, it identifies key socialization dynamics in the youth-cultural production and reproduction of social cohesion. It…