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Zusatztext " After the Fall of the Wall provides a masterful account of how institutional transformation has affected the life chances of the citizens of the former East Germany...The contributions in this volume document, with impressive detail, the extent of disruption in the East German economy after reunification."— American Journal of Sociology Informationen zum Autor Martin Diewald is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld,Germany. Anne Goedicke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Universityof Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Karl Ulrich Mayer is Chair of the Department ofSociology and Director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and theLife Course (CIQLE) at Yale University. Klappentext The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life course sociology. > Zusammenfassung Through careful examination of the lives of East Germans in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book details how a very sudden and very radical system change alters the interweaving of individual agency with institutions and social structures in shaping life-course trajectories.
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"One of the first, most comprehensive assessments in the English language of how two different systems and institutions have shaped the lives of East Germans and how East Germans have dealt with the transition to the new Federal Republic of Germany... Their findings should finally lay to rest the notion of the unmotivated East German and suggest rather the dominant role of massive economic restructuring and work-related position in understanding how East Germans have fared through transition."-H-Net Reviews
