Subjective Attendants of Unification and Transformation in Germany

authored by

Wolfgang Glatzer, Mathias Bös

Abstract

The article is concentrated on negative aspects of quality of life, mainly anomie. Anomic attitudes have been thematized since the beginning of sociological analysis as phenomena accompanying rapid social change and economic crises. It is shown to what extent the processes of unification and transformation in Germany after 1990 are accompanied by a fragile perceived quality of life. That such a problematic has become virulent at the beginning of the nineteen-nineties indicates the fact that the unification of Germany and the transformation process of the former socialist states are undoubtedly part of the great rapid societal changes of the past decades.

External Organisation(s)

Goethe University Frankfurt
Heidelberg University

Type

Article

Journal

Social indicators research

Volume

43

Pages

171-196

No. of pages

26

ISSN

0303-8300

Publication date

02.1998

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006874710181 (Access: Closed)