Archive 2021

Conferences, lectures and workshops to present and discuss recent societal developments regarding inequality and social policy research.

Place:
online

16.12.2021
Time:
12 - 1 pm
Partic. Organization:
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

The world-wide gender gap in education depends not just on countries' economic performance, but also on cultural factors. However, world cultures are not fixed entities. Rather, culture is a characteristic of groups as well as of (world-)regions. How do global cultures moderate women's low education? Based on data of the World Value Survey, this study applies Latent Profile Analysis to generate a fuzzy-set typology of cultures in the world, but based on individuals instead of nation states. Individuals do not belong exclusively to one culture, but to several cultures simultaneously, with varying probabilities. In the second step, cross-classified logistic multilevel models test the country-time specific effects of 'female' on the risk of getting (at best) low education, controlling for various individual and country-specific factors. Cross-level interactions show that the 'female' effect on low education is indeed moderated by world cultures, but neither world cultures, economic factors nor individual characteristics completely explain the strength of the female effects.

Zoom-Link zur Veranstaltung
Kalender-Eintrag

The world-wide gender gap in education depends not just on countries' economic performance, but also on cultural factors. However, world cultures are not fixed entities. Rather, culture is a characteristic of groups as well as of (world-)regions. How do global cultures moderate women's low education? Based on data of the World Value Survey, this study applies Latent Profile Analysis to generate a fuzzy-set typology of cultures in the world, but based on individuals instead of nation states. Individuals do not belong exclusively to one culture, but to several cultures simultaneously, with varying probabilities. In the second step, cross-classified logistic multilevel models test the country-time specific effects of 'female' on the risk of getting (at best) low education, controlling for various individual and country-specific factors. Cross-level interactions show that the 'female' effect on low education is indeed moderated by world cultures, but neither world cultures, economic factors nor individual characteristics completely explain the strength of the female effects.

Zoom-Link zur Veranstaltung
Kalender-Eintrag

Place:

Forsthausweg 1
47057 Duisburg
Time:
18.11. von 10 bis 18 Uhr und 19.11. von 9 bis 17 Uhr
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

13.10.2021 - 13.10.2021Lecture

Immigration, solidarity and social class

Prof. Lea Ypi (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
Place:


BIGSSS
Time:
14:15-15:45
Contact Person:
Ertila Druga, MD & M.Sc.
Organization:
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

Progressive scepticism about immigration is rooted in the idea that there is a trade-off between openness to immigration and support for the welfare state. The response to this has so far been to take seriously the nation-state model of solidarity and to seek ways to incorporate its challenges of so as to adapt that model to the circumstances of contemporary politics. The two most prominent avenues are what one might call multicultural solidarity, on the one hand, and supranational solidarity, on the other. In this paper I want to defend a third model, what I will call class-based solidarity. I argue that class-based solidarity offers a more attractive response to the progressive dilemma, illustrate how it relates to the notions of political community we are familiar with and conclude by emphasising the relevance of social class in building bonds of solidarity.

About Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining the LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD.

She has degrees in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and has held visiting and research positions at Sciences Po, the University of Frankfurt, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Australian National University and the Italian Institute for Historical Studies.

Place:


8.10.2021
Time:
1pm - 6pm
Contact Person:
Nicole Vetter, Dr (Deutsches Institut für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung (DIFIS))
Partic. Organization:
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

Place:


Bremen
Time:
3.30 pm - 5 pm
Contact Person:
Partic. Organization:
Semester:
SoSe 2021

Related new publication:
Clemence Ledoux, Karen Shire, and Franca van Hooren (eds.), 2021: The Dynamics of Welfare Markets - Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.


Zoom Link

28.04.2021

Ansatzpunkte zur Verbesserung der medizinischen Versorgung Pflegebedürftiger

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Institut für Public Health und Pflegeforschung (IPP), Universität Bremen; SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen; Universität Bremen
Place:


28.04.2021
Time:
18.00 - 19.30 Uhr
Organization:

 

 

 

 

Place:


Online
Time:
4 pm - 5.30 pm
Contact Person:
Partic. Organization:
Semester:
SoSe 2021

Mario Azevedo is Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Jackson State University. He earned his Ph.D. in African History from Duke University and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written extensively on African history with a special focus on health politics. In his talk, he will present core findings from his two-volume book "Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa" (Cham: Springer International, 2017).

Zoom link:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/97506593878?pwd=QkwycitvOHhwZU40Ni9vaHVZRE5MQT09
Meeting-ID: 975 0659 3878
Kenncode: 118032

 

10.02.2021 - 10.02.2021

Gender, Right-Wing Populism and Family Policy Discourses in Hungary and in Poland

Dorota Szelewa, PhD. (Trinity College Dublin)
Place:


10.02.2021
Time:
14:15-16:00
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

''The main topic of this presentation is to analyse the recent reforms and discourses about gender roles as produced and activated by the right-wing populist governments in Hungary (post 2010)  and Poland (post 2015). In the context of a rapid demographic decline that took place in almost all East European Countries, women started to be predominantly perceived through their reproductive functions. In Hungary, pro-natalist policies favouring cash transfers were intensified under the slogans of ‘demographic revolution of the middle class’, with blaming women for falling fertility rates. In Poland, aligned with the Catholic Church, the new government has openly attacked the notion of gender, while limiting access to emergency contraception, IVF treatment, and allowing the repeated attempts to introduce a complete abortion ban, while at the same time investing heavily in child-related policies. Overall, such approach would place more emphasis on supply side of politics. For characterising the recent reforms in Hungary and Poland I am using the notions of maternalism and familialism (and their varieties) and then to analyse the main discourses around maternity in relation to gender roles and other accompanying discourses employed by the right-wing populist governments in the new political contexts. My argument is that the recent developments in these policies and discourses can be interpreted as re-building and strengthening national identities. Specifically, I am using Nira Yuval-Davis’s framework of gendered nationalism. As previous studies often focused on Hungarian-Polish comparison due to differences in their policy mixes, with Hungary being labelled ‘public maternalism’ or ‘comprehensive support’ and Poland – ‘private maternalism’ or ‘implicit familialism’, this paper demonstrates how the recent reforms contribute to transformation of Polish version of maternalism from ‘private’ to ‘public’.

Please join the lecture via Zoom here.
Meeting-ID: 969 2737 8979
Kenncode: 182633

20.01.2021 - 20.01.2021

"Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers"

Prof. Jennifer Pan (Stanford University)
Place:


online
Time:
17:30-19:00
Semester:
WiSe 2021/22

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result.

Her book, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford, 2020) shows how China's pursuit of political order transformed the country’s main social assistance program, Dibao, for repressive purposes. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and Science.

Zoom here.