Project Details
Projekt
GRK 884: Group Focused Enmity: Causes, Phenomenology, Consequences
Subject Area
Psychology
Term
from 2004 to 2012
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273603
The Research Training Group examines the prevalence, manifestations, causes and consequences of "Group-focused enmity (GFE)". GFE is targeted against "alien" groups such as immigrants and Jews as well as "norm-violating" groups such as homosexuals, handicapped or homeless. GFE manifests itself in discrimination, rejection and possibly violent behaviour directed against members of these groups.
Toward that aim, the Research Training Group is connected to an extensive interdisciplinary research project led by Wilhelm Heitmeyer at the University of Bielefeld with cooperation partners at the Universities of Gießen, Göttingen and Marburg. The project is funded for a duration of ten years (2002-2012) by a consortium presided by the Volkswagen-Stiftung. As part of the project, cross-sectional and longitudinal general population surveys are conducted every year on the topic of GFE. The focus here is on quantitative attitude research, and the Research Training Groups aim is to extend this perspective with regard to methods, theories, contents and applications.
Thus, students are encouraged to use the datasets of the ongoing research project on GFE for their own analyses and to develop original extensions in methods, theory or contents. The study programme is designed in an interdisciplinary fashion so as to make students familiar with different theoretical and methodological approaches, their advantages and disadvantages, and ways of integrating them.
Toward that aim, the Research Training Group is connected to an extensive interdisciplinary research project led by Wilhelm Heitmeyer at the University of Bielefeld with cooperation partners at the Universities of Gießen, Göttingen and Marburg. The project is funded for a duration of ten years (2002-2012) by a consortium presided by the Volkswagen-Stiftung. As part of the project, cross-sectional and longitudinal general population surveys are conducted every year on the topic of GFE. The focus here is on quantitative attitude research, and the Research Training Groups aim is to extend this perspective with regard to methods, theories, contents and applications.
Thus, students are encouraged to use the datasets of the ongoing research project on GFE for their own analyses and to develop original extensions in methods, theory or contents. The study programme is designed in an interdisciplinary fashion so as to make students familiar with different theoretical and methodological approaches, their advantages and disadvantages, and ways of integrating them.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg; Universität Bielefeld
Co-Applicant Institution
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Spokespersons
Professor Dr. Ulrich Wagner; Professor Dr. Andreas Zick
