Inequality of Opportunities

In numerous research projects, we deal with various aspects of social inequality: meritocracy, education, social mobility and the promise of advancement. In particular, we analyse educational inequalities from various perspectives: How are their extent and causes perceived? What consequences do they have for the acceptance of the education system and the willingness to change something? What role does educational inequality play in political attitudes and participation? The following will give you an initial insight. 

Explanatory video of the project "Students' Perceptions of Inequality and Fairness (PerFair)" in German. 

"When Research Questions Emerge from Your Own Life"

Christina Felfe de Ormeño explains in an interview how the challenging situation of being a mother of three children and a full-time professor led her to conduct a research project where the results were widely discussed, even outside academia.

“The System Is Stupid.”
Arthouse Cinema Meets Social Science

At our second "Film & Talk" event, where we make our findings from inequality research accessible to a wider audience, we showed the documentary "KALLE KOSMONAUT". Over the course of 10 years, directors Tine Kugler and Günther Kurth followed the initially 10-year-old Kalle as he grew up in a Berlin neighbourhood and show how social inequality can determine a biography. We interviewed Tine Kugler about her long-term project for the In_equality magazine. The sociologist and research associate at our Cluster of Excellence, Katja Pomianowicz, complements the interview with a sociological categorisation of the topic. 

Further articles in In_equality magazine no. 6