Linus Westheuser, born in 1989, is a research fellow Department of Macrosociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Why do gender-netrual language and cargo bikes trigger so many people? There is more and more talk of a »split in society«. In the everyday perception of many people, too, increasingly irreconcilable camps are confronting one another. As plausible as they may sound, such diagnoses raise questions: How divergent are people’s opinions in reality? And is society actually more divided today than...