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Loneliness, unhappiness, consumerism and its political consequences: observations and predictions of Robert E. Lane
Twenty years ago, the American political psychologist Robert E. Lane (1917 – 2017) published The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (2000)...
Opportunists in Political Education for Democracy, Freedom and Respect: The Long Road of Democratization.
In 2020, Germany has been celebrating 30 years of German unification and 30 years of democracy, pluralism and respect in...
Deliberating Discrimination, Antisemitism, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia in Volatile Schools in Hamburg: Why was there a
In 2019 Social Science Works enjoyed a close cooperation with a district-school in Hamburg. We formed two groups of about 12 pupils each...
Was will eine Frau eigentlich? On discussing Gender Equality in Germany.
Gender equality is a pivotal topic in many of the deliberative workshops we have implemented in the last couple of...
Angry, but not bad people on the Brandenburg countryside
We are in a small town in rural Brandenburg and talk for two days with 32 long-term unemployed people. Most...
Talking straight to youngsters in Hamburg
We are in a less affluent part from Hamburg for a two-day Workshop. About 70% of our 32 participants have...
“People have to work!” A Deliberation at a Secondary School in Brandenburg
This “Schule mit Courage” in a town East of Berlin has in total 330 pupils. About a third are first...
A Deliberative Workshop with Chechen
Since 2016 Social Science Works has implemented more than forty rows of workshops with refugees and natives in which we discuss, among...
Deliberating Homosexuality: Empirical Observations and Analyses
Like many other western countries, Germany still has medical doctors, therapists and priests that believe that homosexuality is an illness...
The Rewards from Deliberation: Researching the Feedback of our Workshops
by Hans Blokland and Raíssa Silveira Since 2016 Social Science Works has organized and implemented almost forty rows of deliberative workshops with...
Robert A. Dahl on Pluralism, Democracy and Deliberation
Robert Dahl (1915 – 2014) is one of the most influential political scholars of the last century. His ideas on...
Countering Radicalization: What the Research on Deliberation and Radicalization Teaches us
Could radicalization be prevented or reversed by bringing together those that have seemingly entered this path, with other not (yet)...