Overview

"The unification of Germany extended the economic and political system of the west to the east. The system transfer led to a ""problematic normalisation"" as East Germans have tried to adjust to uncertainties they had never known: in employment, education and training, family life, immigration. A decade on, the book examines what kind of civil society has emerged, how East Germans fared in th social transformation and how processes of transformation in the new Germany relate to European policy agendas for analysing social transformation and its two key tenants: the transformation process affecting advanced industrial societies generally, and the process of post-communist transformation pertaining to Germany. The book addresses this ""dual transformation"", firstly, by placing the developments in eastern Germany in a comparative European perspective and, subsequently, by considering in key areas of east German society and through personal responses, to what extent state-socialist legacies continue to matter."

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Author:   Chris Flockton ,  Eva Kolinsky ,  Rosalind Pritchard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780714681344

ISBN 10:   0714681342
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   30 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The new Germany in the East - an introduction, Chris Flockton et al. Part 1 The new Germany in Europe: political transition, social transformation and the welfare agenda, Steen Mangen; towards a new deal? recasting social policy in Europe, Ilona Oster; policy agendas and the economy in Germany and Europe, Chris Flockton. Part 2 Ten years on - the new Germany since unification: perceptions of GDR society and its transformation ten years after unity, Mike Dennis; employment, gender and the dual transformation in Germany, Hildegard Maria Nickel; pre-school education and childcare in East Germany, Rosalind Pritchard; unexpected newcomers - asylum seekers and other non-Germans in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky ; legacies of exclusion - the memory of terror and the creation of civil values in the new Bundeslander, Anthony Glees. Part 3 Social experiences and attitude change: mother-child interactions at the passage from childhood to youth - a comparison of East and West German families, Beate Schuster; parenting in times of social transformation, Harald Uhlendorff; investigating change in the way children deal with time, Dieter Kirchhofer; managing unemployment - experiences and strategies of women in the new Bundeslander, Vanessa Beck violence against women - sexual offences and victim support in Saxony-Anhait, Ingrid Holzler; recasting civil society in East Germany, Jonathan Grix.

Reviews

'This book is a timely, fascinating and thought provoking review of the new eastern German states some ten years after unification ... strongly recommended for all who take an interest in the process of transition generally and eastern German adjustment in particular.' - Political Studies

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Chris Flockton, Eva Kolinsky, Rosalind Pritchard

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