School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

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    Rechtskonformität: Eine kultursoziologische Perspektive

    Kretschmann, A., 2021, Sozialwissenschaftliche Aufklärung der Rechtspolitik und -praxis als Berufung: Festschrift für Arno Pilgram zum 75. Geburtstag. Hofinger, V., Mayrhofer, H., Pelikan, C., Fuchs, W., Hammerschick, W. & Walter, R. (eds.). Wien: LIT Verlag, p. 91-107 17 p. (Schriften zur Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie; vol. 11).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    The Importance of Expertise: Political Careers, Personnel Turnover, and Throughput Legitimacy in the European Parliament

    Salvati, E. & Vercesi, M., 2021, Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU. Scherpereel, J. A. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 137-165 29 p. (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Looking at workers, working with workers: Struggles and Experiments in Collaboration in West German Arbeiterfilm in the 1970s

    Jordan, U., 2021, IDENTITY IS THE CRISIS. Fischer, J. H. (ed.). 4 ed. Other Forms, Vol. 2021. p. 38-57 20 p. (Countersignals; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

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    Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects

    Conrad, L. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.), Beverungen, A. (ed.), Pias, C. (ed.), Denny, S. (ed.) & Steinbrügge, B. (ed.), 2021, Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg. 196 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsTransfer

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    Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy

    Welzel, C., 04.07.2021, In: Democratization. 28, 5, p. 992-1016 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Why the future is democratic

    Welzel, C., 04.2021, In: Journal of Democracy. 32, 2, p. 132-144 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    How important is culture to understand political protest?

    Li Donni, P., Marino, M. & Welzel, C., 01.12.2021, In: World Development. 148, 15 p., 105661.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Bekenntnis zum unfreiwilligen Zölibat: Rezension zu „Incels. Geschichte, Sprache und Ideologie eines Online-Kults“ von Veronika Kracher

    Fink, F., 12.05.2021, Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

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    A(l)gora: the Mindscape

    von Xylander, C., 12.2020, In: Technology and Language. 1, 1, p. 115-125 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch