Research Cluster

Group memberships, which on the one hand enable the individual to identify with the group, but on the other hand also make the individual identifiable in the discourse, involve new subject positions and individualization options in the structure of the regulation of socialization processes via conceptions such as security, welfare and sustainability. Learning processes that enable groups and individuals to shape and successfully regulate inclusive citizenship in different social spheres and at different levels in status and practice can be viewed analytically from three perspectives: (1) participation in the sense of equal inclusion; (2) diversity as recognized difference among group members; and (3) participation as an opportunity for involvement in goal setting and goal achievement of a group.

The various projects of the interdisciplinary research center “Inclusive Citizenship” address and empirically investigate the historical development and current patterns of inclusive and exclusive civic practices and routines in different fields of action and institutional settings. During the analysis, the normative and analytical dimensions of inclusive citizenship will be further defined and the inherent antinomies of normative concepts of inclusion and the ambivalences of the citizenship approach will be reflected. It should be noted that science itself is always moving in a field of tension between inclusion and exclusion. Science develops world views that selectively forms interests and thus gives and denies opportunities for inclusion. In this field of tension, the research center develops a common understanding of methodological approaches in the context of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary of the participating disciplines and researchers.