A Reflection on Crucial Periods in 50 Years of Social Psychology (in Germany)

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Katja Corcoran ◽  
Michael Häfner ◽  
Mathias Kauff ◽  
Stefan Stürmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Early Development ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

Abstract. In this article, we reflect on 50 years of the journal Social Psychology. We interviewed colleagues who have witnessed the history of the journal. Based on these interviews, we identified three crucial periods in Social Psychology’s history, that are (a) the early development and further professionalization of the journal, (b) the reunification of East and West Germany, and (c) the internationalization of the journal and its transformation from the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie to Social Psychology. We end our reflection with a discussion of changes that occurred during these periods and their implication for the future of our field.

Change Regions and Changes in Normative Market Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Stephen Farrall ◽  
Susanne Karstedt
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Law ◽  
Market Cultures

This chapter explores the history of the three regions in Europe which are the focus of this work; namely, England and Wales, and the former East and West Germany. Their recent economic histories are recounted, as well as the nature of these economic and social changes, and which social groups are most likely to have been affected by them. These changes have increased the opportunities for crime in the marketplace for many citizens. The extent to which people living in these three areas report perceptions of change in their societies is examined, as well as trust in market institutions, cynicism about the law, and values related to contemporary citizenship, and how they differ between change regions and generations.

scholarly journals Reframing the Past: Justice, Guilt, and Consolidation in East and West Germany after Nazism

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-313
Author(s):  
Mary Fulbrook
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nazi Persecution ◽  
East And West

AbstractOnly a minority of Germans involved in Nazi crimes were prosecuted after the war, and the transnational history of trials is only beginning to be explored. Even less well understood are the ways in which those who were tainted by complicity reframed their personal life stories. Millions had been willing facilitators, witting beneficiaries, or passive (and perhaps unhappily helpless) witnesses of Nazi persecution; many had been actively involved in sustaining Nazi rule; perhaps a quarter of a million had personally killed Jewish civilians, and several million had direct knowledge of genocide. How did these people re-envision their own lives after Nazism? And how did they reinterpret their own former behaviors—their actions and inaction—in light of public confrontations with Nazi crimes and constructions of “perpetrators” in trials? Going beyond well-trodden debates about “overcoming the past,” this paper explores patterns of personal memory among East and West Germans after Nazism.

History of BCG Vaccination Recommendations in East and West Germany from 1951 to Date

Pneumologie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (12) ◽  
pp. 811-812
Author(s):  
B. Häcker ◽  
S. H. E. Kaufmann ◽  
T. Bauer ◽  
R. Otto-Knapp
Keyword(s):  
West Germany ◽  
Bcg Vaccination ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Vaccination Recommendations ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

From the GDR to Eastern Federal Lands of Germany: features of economic and political transformation (1989–2019)

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Larisa N. Shanshieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Federal Lands ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

This chapter discusses the main stages of social transformation in East Germany since 1989. The author explores the reasons for the peaceful revolution, the split of the political elite, the attempts to unite left-leaning parties, and movements around the idea of adopting a new constitution and rejecting the statehood of the GDR. The causes of the collapse of the GDR, the features of institutional changes in the eastern lands after 1990, and the protracted nature of the transformation are analyzed. The chapter also presents the data on the costs of economic recovery in the eastern federal states and the main socio-economic indicators of development in East and West Germany. Specific attention is paid to the mental differences between East and West Germans and the causes of nostalgic sentiments among the population of the Eastern lands. The question of the modern perception and study of the history of the GDR is also considered. Conclusions are drawn about the specific features of the model of social transformation in East Germany.

scholarly journals German-Polish scienti c cooperations in divided Germany – Janusz Korczak associations in East and West Germany since the 1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Anne Oommen-Halbach ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
Faculties Of Education ◽  
Divided Germany

The Polish-Jewish paediatrician, pedagogue and writer Janusz Korczak (1878/79–1942) has not been honoured in Germany until many years after his death in Treblinka in 1942. The German division led to the development of two separate German academic associations since the end of the 1970s, which aimed – under different political circumstances – to popularise and disseminate the memory of Korczak and his works. Both associations estab- lished personal and academic contacts and cooperations with the Polish Korczak Committee, whose history can be traced back to 1946, when contemporary witnesses of Korczak founded the Committee to honour Korczak’s memory. This paper aims to reconstruct the early scientific cooperations of both German Korczak associations with Polish scientists and the Polish Korczak Committee. While in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) major research stimuli emanated at the faculties of education at Gießen and Wuppertal, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) a first publicly perceived research focus crystallised at the only existing, state-controlled publishing house for schoolbooks (Volk und Wissen – Volkseigener Verlag) in East- Berlin. In the early 1980s, the work of the young associations was focused on biographical and bibliographical studies. Here it becomes obvious, that Korczak studies in East and West were substantially inspired and advanced by the then still living contemporary eyewitnesses of Korczak and their personal contacts to individual members of the existing Korczak associations. The history of the international Korczak bibliography is a characteristic example, that shows, how closely contemporary witnessing is linked to scientific research on Korczak.

Trends in the Prevalence of Atopic Eczema in East and West Germany

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-376
Author(s):  
Schäfer ◽  
Krämer ◽  
Vieluf ◽  
Behrendt ◽  
Ring
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Eczema ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West
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