300292 Regional Development Dynamics and their Social, Economic, and Political Consequences (TC: Soziologische Methoden - quantitativ) (S) (SoSe 2025)

Living conditions in Germany today show evidence of increasing and rapidly changing regional disparities in structural, demographic and economic domains. These disparities often take the form of an adverse access to health care facilities, childcare provision, education and other public services as well as regional labour market opportunities, business climate, housing and transportation infrastructures.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP-RegioHub “Regional Development Dynamics and their Social, Economic, and Political Consequences” investigates how these regional social and economic opportunities influence social cohesion, expectations, political attitudes, preferences and behavior and thereby exacerbate or mitigate social inequality, social cohesion, political conflicts and radicalization. More infos on the campus: https://lsc-soep-regiohub.com/

The theory class will provide an extensive overview about different theoretical perspectives on regional development dynamics and their political consequences in Germany. This includes health science, economics, sociology and psychology. In addition, the different research projects of the ScienceCampus SOEP-RegioHub will introduces themselves.

The class will be held online via Zoom from 12:15 to 13:45 on the following dates:

14.04 Odile Sauzet and Anna Zaharieva

28.04 Herbert Dawid and Simon Kühne

19.05 Martin Kroh

26.05 Jan Goebel and Carsten Schröder

16.06 Theresa Entringer and Owen Callahan

23.06 Leon Gawenda, Mario Wolf and Nico Ullrich

07.07 Andreas Zick, Francesca Verga