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Student gain insights into the research of inequality with current project presentations by doctoral students and faculty of the research area "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts" and of the doctoral program "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalisation".

The lecture "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts" represents the cross-over of research and teaching. We will have introductory lectures and presentations of current projects by faculty of the research area "Cultural Encounters - Cultual Conflicts" and by PhD students of the doctoral program "Dynamcs of Inequality and Difference in the age of globalisation".

Inequality and difference are social realities in all societies, however shaping coexistence to varying degrees. Inequality and difference, so the general assumption, are the results of social processes of negotiation through which access to and the right of disposal over material and immaterial resources are distributed. Vertical and horizontal disparities here intersect: Vertical inequality encompasses economic differences in income and wealth, and access to the means of production, the labor market, capital, credit, and welfare state services (such as education and healthcare). Horizontal inequality includes diverging possibilities for social belonging and participation arising from nationality, gender, skin color, religion, age, or language. The two forms overlap and strengthen (or weaken) each other intersectionally in the axes of global mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion such as the presented areas of racism, gender, and class relations, as well as linguicism.

Lectures, prepatory and follow-up reading.

Minutes of five individual lectures or final exam

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Some texts will be in English, the willingness to read in English is a prerequisite.