Private landlords in Germany: Positions, attitudes and strategies in a privileged class

德国私人房东：特权阶层的立场、态度和策略

• 批准号: 524963742
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Nicole Burzan
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrgebiet für Soziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/524963742?language=en
• 关键词: Private; landlords; Germany; Positions; attitudes

Private landlords and landladies are the largest group of housing providers in the German rental housing market. In no other western country housing is that often provided by private individuals. Nevertheless, very little is known about private landlords, even in times of heating public debates about rising rents and energy prices and their social consequences. The project addresses this research gap. The guiding principle is a Bourdieusian perspective: we understand landlords as members of privileged classes and ask about their objective situations and subjective positioning. Beyond clichés (e.g., landlords as ‚rent sharks‘), we are interested in: 1. How is the usually privileged economic capital of landlords related to their cultural and social capital in terms of class situation? 2) How is the social class and the genesis of the landlord's role related to habitual attitudes (e.g., social positioning) as well as told behaviors (e.g., towards tenants, investment behavior, participation in landlord associations)? Which constellations of conditions are characteristic? With that said, we fill a research gap on a main actor in the housing market. We explore, from a sociological perspective on inequality, habitual demarcations at the interface between middle and upper classes (fractions). In the sense of Bourdieu, we furthermore investigate the relationship between high-income groups and more privileged classes. With rentable real estate as an important component of wealth, we also aim to link the sociology of housing and the sociology of inequality. Empirically we shed light on the research topic using mixed methods. After a preparatory quantitative secondary data analysis, we conduct qualitative guided interviews based on grounded theory.

私人房东和女房东是德国租房市场上最大的住房提供者群体。在其他任何一个西方国家，住房都不是经常由私人提供的。然而，人们对私人房东知之甚少，即使在公众对房租和能源价格上涨及其社会后果进行激烈辩论的时候也是如此。该项目旨在填补这一研究空白。指导原则是布尔迪厄的观点：我们将地主理解为特权阶级的成员，并询问他们的客观情况和主观定位。超越陈词滥调（例如，房东作为“租鲨鱼”），我们感兴趣的是：1。地主通常享有特权的经济资本与他们的文化和社会资本在阶级地位方面有什么关系？2)社会阶级和地主角色的起源与习惯性态度（例如，社会定位）以及被告知的行为（例如，对租户，投资行为，参与房东协会）？哪些状况是典型的？话虽如此，我们填补了对房地产市场主要参与者的研究空白。我们探索，从社会学的角度对不平等，在中产阶级和上层阶级（分数）之间的界面习惯性分界线。在布迪厄的意义上，我们进一步研究了高收入群体和特权阶层之间的关系。由于可出租的真实的房地产是财富的一个重要组成部分，我们还旨在将住房社会学和不平等社会学联系起来。从经验上讲，我们阐明了研究主题使用混合方法。在预备性的定量二级数据分析之后，我们进行了基于扎根理论的定性指导访谈。