"Social Milieus and Diversity"
Workshops, conferences 2010
- Datum: 16.03.2010
- Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 13:30
- Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
- Raum: Library Hall

For more details please contact esser(at)mmg.mpg.de.
By focusing on social milieus, the work-shop will discuss a central concept of the sociology of inequality. Social milieus describe large social groups with charac-teristic attitudes, value orientations, life goals and lifestyles. Theoretical concepts are based on the works of Emile Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu.The empirical analysis of milieu research is based on objective characteristics (social class) and on subjective characte-ristics that constitute the socio-cultural identity of a person (value orientations, life goals, recreational activities, diffe-rent aspects of lifestyles, everyday aesthetic tendencies, etc). An empirical model specially for migrants was first created in 2007 (Sinus-Migrant-Milieus).