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Schlagwörter:
diversity, Germany, cities, prodiversity attitudes, survey, migration
Zusammenfassung:
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 mecha-
nisms underlying the acceptance of socio-demographic heterogeneity on multiple dimen-
sions 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 experi-
ences and diversification dynamics. This includes a set of survey experiments designed to
tap and measure social norms of tolerance. This report presents technical aspects of the
survey relevant to interested users of the DivA Dataset.
