After the Fall of the Wall - Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany

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 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Karl Ulrich Mayer is Chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martin Diewald, Martin Goedicke Diewald, Anne Goedicke, Karl U. Mayer
• Con la collaborazione di: Martin Diewald (Editore), Anne Goedicke (Editore), Karl Mayer (Editore), Karl U. Mayer (Editore), Karl Ulrich Mayer (Editore)
• Editore: Stanford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.09.2006
• EAN: 9780804752084
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5208-4
• Pagine: 408
• Serie: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia