Diversity Assent in Urban Germany

How do people living in contemporary Germany react to diversification in their every-
day life? What undergirds pro-diversity perspectives among those who live in rapidly
diversifying cities? Conversely, what are their limits, and what groups are excluded? The
Diversity Assent (DivA) project was designed to understand the foundations and mechanisms underlying the acceptance of socio-demographic heterogeneity on multiple dimensions in cities located both in West and East Germany. Two core motivations underlie
the project. So far, we insufficiently understand what motivates those who oppose right-
wing positions – usually a majority among inhabitants of cities in Germany and other
Western European countries. Second, this project builds on a previous large-scale project
of the Socio-Cultural Diversity department at MPI-MMG, “Diversity and Contact”. In
particular, it explores to what extent attitudes and patterns of interaction have changed, or
remained constant, in the decade from 2010 to 2020, which was a time of major ruptures
and political polarization. We designed a large telephone survey of 2,917 respondents
asking a set of interrelated questions on dispositions towards diversity, everyday experiences and diversification dynamics. This includes a set of survey experiments designed to
tap and measure social norms of tolerance.

当代德国民众如何应对日常生活中的多元化？在快速走向多元化的城市中，支持多元化的观点背后依托着何种逻辑？反之，这类观点存在哪些局限，又将哪些群体排除在外？多元认同（Diversity Assent, DivA）项目旨在探究德国东西部城市中，民众对多维度社会人口异质性的接纳基础与作用机制。本项目有两大核心动因：其一，迄今为止我们仍未能充分理解，那些反对右翼立场的群体——他们在德国及其他西欧国家的城市居民中通常占据多数——的行为动机；其二，本项目依托马克斯·普朗克移民与多元文化研究所（MPI-MMG）下属社会文化多样性研究部此前的大型项目《多样性与接触》（Diversity and Contact）展开。具体而言，本项目旨在探究2010至2020这十年间——一段充满重大社会变局与政治极化的时期——民众的态度与互动模式发生了何种变化，或是保持了何种延续性。我们设计了一项涵盖2917名受访者的大型电话调查，设置了一系列与多元化倾向、日常经历及多元化动态相关的关联问题，其中还包含一组旨在挖掘并测量宽容社会规范的调查实验。