22 research outputs found
Innovations in land-use as response to rural change — a case report from Brandenburg, Germany
No full textSuperfrogs in the city: 150 year impact of urbanization and agriculture on the European Common Frog
No full textUnderstanding the mechanisms of ethnic discrimination: a field experiment on discrimination against Turks, Syrians and Americans in the Berlin shared housing market
No full textProducing the German Civic Nation: Immigrant Patriotism in Berlin's World Cup Flag Fight
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Fragile Fabric: Illegality Knowledge, Social Capital and Health-seeking of Undocumented Latin American Migrants in Berlin
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Religion, Religiosity, and the Attitudes Toward Homosexuality—A Multilevel Analysis of 79 Countries
No full textAlthough the attitudes towards homosexuality have become more liberal, particularly in industrialized Western countries, there is still a great deal of variance in terms of the worldwide levels of homonegativity. Using data from the two most recent waves of the World Values Survey (1999-2004, 2005-2009) this article seeks to explain this variance by means of a multi-level analysis of 79 countries. We include characteristics on the individual level, as age or gender, as well as aggregate variables linked to specificities of the nation-states. In particular, we focus on the religious denomination of a person and her religiosity in order to explain her attitude towards homosexuality. We find clear differences in levels of homonegativity among the followers of the individual religion
