300328 Cultural Diversity in Public Discourse of Western Democracy (BS) (WiSe 2012/2013)
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Contemporary national states turn into “mosaics” of ethnic, religious, subcultural groups with specific norms, values, interpretation patterns, symbolic systems and lifestyles. In this course, we look at the factors of the cultural pluralization of Western societies such as (1) globalization, (2) transnational migration (especially increased immigration from the Third World to Western democracies and the subsequent formation of substantial cultural, ethnic and religious minorities after WW2), (3) increased calls for independence from national minorities within larger nations (e.g. Scots, Basks, French-Canadians) and indigenous people (e.g. American Indians, Canadian Eskimos, Greenlanders), (4) the fall of the Berlin Wall and disintegration of the former communist states into nations along ethnic boundaries (e.g. USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia). We will focus on how the problem of cultural diversity is represented in the discourse of strong and weak publics (N. Fraser) and consider the discursive strategies of tackling this challenge by competing publics (such as normalization, stigmatization, the construction of social problems and moral panics). It will be also examined how the problem of cultural diversity is attempted to be solved by policies promoted and negotiated in public discourse and concentrate especially on the debate between egalitarian liberalism and multiculturalism.
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Subject assignments
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| 30-M-IAS12 Politics of Global Citizenship / Políticas de ciudadanía global | Seminar "empirisch oder "anwendungsorientiert" | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-M-Soz-M5a Politische Soziologie a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-M-Soz-M5b Politische Soziologie b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-M-Soz-M5c Politische Soziologie c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information |
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| Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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| Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | MaIAS11 | Wahlpflicht | 4/8 | |||
| Politikwissenschaft / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | 3 | individuelle Ergänzung | |||
| Sozialwissenschaften / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | 3 | individuelle Ergänzung | |||
| Soziologie / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | 3 | individuelle Ergänzung | |||
| Soziologie / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | Modul 4.3 | 3 | (bei Einzelleistung 3 LP zusätzlich) | |||
| Soziologie / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | Modul 3.2; Modul 1.2 | Wahl | 3 | (bei Einzelleistung 3 LP zusätzlich) |
To get their Schein, students (MA) are expected to master the texts from the reader (which will be inspected through small homework essays of 3-4 pages), actively participate in the in-class discussions and prepare a final research project in teams of 3-4 members for additional 3 credit points.
BA-Students are expected to master the texts from the reader and to actively participate in the in-class discussions.
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