Generations in Protest. Civil society engagement from an intergenerational and biographical perspective.

• Applicant: Dr. Martina Schiebel
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 539511620

The aim of the proposed research project is to close a research gap by designing it as a figuration-sociological, biographical-analytical study in which the (family) biographical genesis of current protest-oriented commitment is reconstructed, questions of generational membership and processes of intergenerational transmission of political orientations or Differentiation from this should be pursued and the meaning of media discourses should be worked out. The study aims to take a multi-generational perspective in order to reconstruct possible connections between (family) biographical constellations and experiences for civil society, civic and, above all, protest-oriented engagement, in order to examine both the relevance of generational affiliations and community-building processes in organizations, protest-movements and networks, which also include communication processes and civil society discourses. Finally the research goal is, from a longue durée perspective of figuration, to draw conclusions about processes of change in political commitment and transformations of political orientations that have a shaping effect on the political culture of German society and its democracy.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants