Keynote Speech | Claudia Diehl “High school students’ perceptions of inequality and fairness – insights from the Cluster’s Perfair project”

The co-speaker of the cluster is head of the research project: Students ́ Perception of Inequality and Fairness – PerFair. The project aims to describe and explain how perceptions of inequality and fairness develop among children and adolescents and to analyze their consequences for educational as well as political attitudes and behaviour. To do so, the researchers bring together expertise from political science, sociology, linguistics, education science, and psychology. They pay particular attention to the interplay of different explanatory factors: individual characteristics like adolescents’ socio-economic backgrounds and their cognitive and language skills; the social influence of parents, teachers and peers; and the role of the institutional and regional context, e.g. characteristics of the school and neighborhood. Claudia Diehl will present the project and empirical findings from the first wave of data collection in her presentation