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How can racism be researched? Lines of research critical of racism and social psychology provide different methodological answers to this question.
Prejudice research in social psychology examines general psychological processes that contribute to categorization, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. It focuses on interactions between context and individual and thus provides explanatory approaches for the individual psychological mechanisms that contribute to the emergence and (re-)production of racism in society.
The interdisciplinary tradition of racism research focuses on discursive, institutional and structural levels, as well as on intersections of different racisms, which it explains as historical and current social processes. Many manifestations and interrelationships between racisms can only be uncovered with the expertise of the communities concerned. She wants to answer the question of how anti-racist attitudes emerge as a deviation from social normality.
In this lecture, we want to get to know two different research approaches and put them in relation to each other. In doing so, we want to work out and discuss the points of contact and differences in theory and methods. We will explore the questions of how the two traditions complement each other and how (supposed) contradictions can contribute to the discourse and gain knowledge. We would also like to shed light on the ethical challenges in the research process.
Prof. Dr. Juliane Degner, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Hamburg, conducts research primarily on automatic processes of social perception and impression formation and the influence of social categorization processes, stereotypes and prejudices on them. She has published numerous articles in international journals and anthologies, including on categorization processes and their effects and the measurement of stereotypes and prejudices using (social) psychological and cognitive methods. She recently published her book on"Vorurteile: Haben immer nur die anderen", in which she explains psychological processes that contribute to the emergence and maintenance of stereotypes, prejudice and social discrimination.
Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, professor at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, conducts research primarily on various aspects of anti-Muslim racism, in relation to other forms of racism and in intersection with other social power relations. She also works with academically, politically and socially engaged individuals and communities to develop remembrance policies from the perspectives of racialized and diasporic movements, e.g. www.verwobenegeschichten.de. Latest book publications: "Muslimischsein im Sicherheitsdiskurs" (with Keskinkilic and Okcu, 2021 with Transcript) and "Unter Verdacht - Rassismuserfahrungen von Rom:nja und Sinti:zze in Deutschland" (with Randjelović, Gerstenberger, Fernández Ortega and Kostič, 2022 with Springer-VS).
Moderation: Dr. Cihan Sinanoglu is head of the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa). His research focuses on migration sociology, ethnicity research, political representation and participation, and racism research.
Moderation: Dr. Stefanie Hechler is a research associate in the Experiments module of the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor. She studied psychology and sociology and previously worked as a social psychologist at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Her research focuses on conflicts within and between groups, including social influence, prejudice and discrimination
To read in
- Degner, J., Floether, J.-C., Essien, I. (2021). Do members of disadvantaged groups explain group status with group stereotypes? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 750606. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750606
- Attia, Iman/Keskinkilic, Ozan Zakariya/Okcu, Büsra (2021): Being Muslim in the security discourse. A reconstructive study on dealing with the threat scenario. Bielefeld: Transcript.