Department IV: Regimes of the Social Sphere

Head of Department: Dr. Jutta Braun und Priv,.-Doz. Dr. Winfried Süß

The research projects of Department IV investigate the question of how social processes were contained and regulated by the political systems of the twentieth century. How did social inequalities develop? Which processes of mobilization and rationalization are evident? And how were normative orders subjectively appropriated? Current projects are investigating the relationship between social inequality and the welfare state, social mobilization during the Second World War, Fordism as a signature characteristic of the twentieth century, and the paradigm of resocialization.

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The Ministry of Health of the GDR - Change of the Political in National Socialist ‘Mecklenburg’ - Commercial Sex in West Germany - German Solidarity Movements in Nicaragua - Muslime world - Exhibition project on the GDR border regime in Potsdam - Poverty policy -Cconsumer behavior - West German...

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Bonn Large Two Forms (2006)

The sculpture Large Two Forms by Henry Moore in front of the former Federal Chancellery (today Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) in Bonn. It is exhibited there since September 19, 1979. Photo: Hans Weingartz, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

The research focus examines the contemporary history of art and the art business in its democratic-historical, socio-historical and socio-political contexts. The research program analyzes artists, the art trade and art recipients as social and economic actors in the field of tension between...

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President Horst Köhler also welcomed the Monday demonstrators on his visit to the Diplomatic Corps in Bremen on 10 September 2007. Photo: Frank Kleinschmidt, so:leb Sozialer Lebensbund e.V. Bremen, 2007-09-10 Horst Koehler Montagsdemo Bremen, public domain, details on Wikimedia Commons

The research area focuses on the public regulation of market-induced and life situation-related inequalities and the associated conflicts. Our research programme understands social security as a core element of political culture and investigates welfare state regimes as central social norming...

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Members of the Reich Labor Service on the way to a rally of the NSDAP, 1933. Photo: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P021658 / Frankl, A. / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P021658, Reichsarbeitsdienst, Marsch zu einer Kundgebung, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE

Department IV’s researchers investigate concepts, instruments and practices of societal control and mobilisation, the interrelation between mobilisation and society’s self-interests as well as processes of ‘self-mobilisation’.

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Nationalismuspolitik

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