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.

  1. Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    The Asian Values Thesis Revisited: Evidence from the World Values Surveys

    Welzel, C., 04.2011, In: Japanese Journal of Political Science. 12, 1, p. 1-31 31 p.

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  3. Published

    The Availability of Things: A Short Genealogy of Consumption

    Schrage, D., 2012, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 1, p. 5-19 15 p.

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  4. Published

    The Cabinet: A Viable Definition and its Composition in View of a Comparative Analysis

    Barbieri, C. & Vercesi, M., 10.2013, In: Government and Opposition. 48, 4, p. 526-547 22 p.

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  5. Published

    The centre of government in West Germany: Changing patterns under 14 legislatures (1949-1987)

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.03.1988, In: European Journal of Political Research. 16, 2, p. 171-190 20 p.

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  6. Published

    The Curator as Arts Administrator ? Comments on Harald Szeemann and the Exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form"

    Behnke, C., 01.03.2010, In: The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. 40, 1, p. 27-42 16 p.

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  7. E-pub ahead of print

    The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies

    Scheel, S., 21.06.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geopolitics. 23 p.

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  8. Published

    The Diffusion of Values among Democracies and Autocracies

    Deutsch, F. & Welzel, C., 01.11.2016, In: Global Policy. 7, 4, p. 563-570 8 p.

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  9. Published

    The display makes a difference: A mobile eye tracking study on the perception of art before and after a museum's rearrangement

    Reitstätter, L., Brinkmann, H., Santini, T., Specker, E., Dare, Z., Bakondi, F., Miscená, A., Kasneci, E., Leder, H. & Rosenberg, R., 19.06.2020, In: Journal of Eye Movement Research. 13, 2, 29 p., 6.

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  10. Published

    The “distinctiveness of cities” and distinctions in cities: Boundaries of belonging in comparative perspective

    Barbehön, M. & Münch, S., 02.01.2016, In: Urban Research and Practice. 9, 1, p. 37-55 19 p.

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    The Domestication of Luxury in Social Theory

    Schrage, D., 01.12.2012, In: Social Change Review. 10, 2, p. 177-193 17 p.

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