Coordination Funds

社会结构的深刻变化对社会和政治方向产生了影响。社会科学家已经记录了不断上升的政治异化和两极分化，以及挑战现有资源分配和代表性系统的新分裂的出现。将这些趋势与社会结构的潜在变化联系起来是一个关键的难题。我们如何将“个性化”社会结构的解体或“政治化”社会结构的终结与人类依附于群体的倾向以及当前的社会和政治冲突协调起来？社会结构变化及其与社会和政治取向的联系比研究普遍承认的更为复杂。地位不一致和交叉的既定概念对社会结构的内化和社会凝聚力和政治稳定的前景产生了相互矛盾的预测。RISS旨在解决和解决这一矛盾。RISS研究单位将社会结构学者与政治社会学家聚集在一起，提出了一种新的观点。尽管社会结构发生了巨大的变化，但它仍保留着塑造个人生活和取向的力量。为了把握我们这个时代的社会和政治变革，我们需要更仔细地观察这些新的社会结构，并了解它们如何塑造个人的观点、信仰和偏好。这种理解的关键是将社会结构从根本上视为多维的，其中许多社会地位以复杂的方式结合在一起。学者们关注的是单一维度，包括教育、社会经济地位、性别关系以及移民和种族多样性。我们所缺乏的是对这些维度的变化是如何结合起来产生当前社会结构重构的理解。我们还需要了解个人是如何内化并理解这些重新配置的，尤其是以前不相关的社会地位的新组合。我们必须了解这些变化如何影响个人和集体的行为和结果。我们的目标是建立社会结构变化的多维概念化，并开发创新的经验策略来捕捉这种复杂性。我们的方法的前景在于能够建立更丰富的理论，说明社会结构如何塑造个人和集体的取向和结果，并最终更好地理解我们的困难时期。

Profound change in social structure has repercussions for social and political orientations. Social scientists have documented rising political alienation and polarization as well as the surfacing of new cleavages that challenge existing systems of resource allocation and representation. Relating these trends to underlying shifts in social structure poses a critical puzzle. How can we reconcile the notion of a dissolving ‘individualized’ social structure or the end of a ‘politicized’ social structure with humans’ propensity to attach themselves to groups and with current social and political conflicts?Social structural change and its connection to social and political orientations is more complex than research has commonly acknowledged. Established concepts of status inconsistency and cross-cuttingness produce contradictory predictions regarding the internalization of social structure and the prospects of social cohesion and political stability. RISS aims to resolve and settle this contradiction.The RISS research unit brings together scholars of social structure with political sociologists and proposes a fresh view. Whereas the social structure has changed dramatically, it retains its power to shape the life and orientations of individuals. In order to grasp the social and political transformation of our times, we need to take a closer look at these new social structures and understand how they shape the views, beliefs and preferences of individuals.The key to this understanding is to view social structure as fundamentally multidimensional where numerous social positions combine in intricate ways. Scholars have focused on single dimensions including education, socio-economic status, gender relations as well as migration and ethnic diversity. What we lack, is an understanding of how changes in these dimensions combine to produce reconfigurations in the current social structure. We also need to grasp how individuals internalize and make sense of these reconfigurations, especially new combinations of formerly disconnected social positions. And we must learn how these changes affect individual and collective behaviors and outcomes.We aim to establish a multidimensional conceptualization of social-structural change and develop innovative empirical strategies to capture this complexity. The promise of our approach lies in the ability to build richer theories of how the social structure shapes individual and collective orientations and outcomes and, ultimately, in a better understanding of our troubled times.