Christoph Lorke, Armut im geteilten Deutschland. Die Wahrnehmung sozialer Randlagen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR. Frankfurt am Main/New York, Campus 2015

Hoffmann, Dierk

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“…The presence of social "parasites" has also been a very important feature of the Soviet and Bulgarian media landscape since the 1960s. In press articles, social and juridical documentaries, or crime movies, hooligans Auliganstvo (hooligan¬ ism'), tunejadstwo ('social scroungers') or other forms of "antisocial" behaviour pat¬ terns allegorized ex negativo socially undesired and inacceptable conduct (Ustinov & Gledov 1973;Hofmann 2016;Miteva & Giurova 1987). While the textual descriptions of these forms of social otherness were strikingly similar, the "other side" was visually almost absent.…”

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The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980

2017

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World War I changed the optics on the Other significantly. The old social order fell; the old values supporting the network of relations lost their overtones under the new circumstances. Then, the interwar period brought a new order, based on the ruins of the older social divisions and, politically, on the ruins of old empires. A recognition of ethnic divisions still existed—they preserved their weight—but the divisions began to be perceived and interpreted from many local points of view (new nation-states). Wartime seemed to be a period during which the image of the Other was especially in focus. As our focus shifted later to World War II and much attention was paid to photography as a new medium that created the illusion of providing a faithful record of reality. There was a visible contrast between the grotesque presentations in caricatures aiming to sketch and exaggerate, and photography, which aimed to depict “neutrally.” WWII, however, triggered extreme polarizations and these were reflected in the visual representations. The horrors of war, the tragic human losses, and the almost constant mortal danger caused shock and, after the war, invited reflection. A new era began. People still described their “reality” focusing on differences and the othering of the unknown, but they did it in a new way. The period after the end of WWII brought new state boundaries and new political relations in central and eastern Europe—that is, the Cold War started and the iron curtain was lowered—which to some degree prolonged mechanisms of othering established during WWII. The Other, as we presented in the third volume in the series, was still depicted as an enemy, an invader, and an occupant.

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The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980

2017

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“…On the other hand Infratest used the typology for profiling through socio-demographic categories (gender, age, education, etc.) for the evaluation of other issues, which facilitated a relatively complex picture on special issues, such as attitudes towards the Soviet Union, or the judgements of political initiatives of the West German government towards East Germany (extracts of the annual reports were published in Holtmann and Köhler, 2015).…”

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Opinion polling behind and across the Iron Curtain

Gieseke

2016

History of the Human Sciences

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In the context of the Cold War, opinion polling as a method of observation stood for the shift from confrontation and clandestine preparations for a hot or cold civil war towards a competition between systems in the fields of political and cultural attractiveness and economic capabilities. Based on the cases of the West German polling institute Infratest and the East German Institute for Opinion Polling of the Socialist Unity Party, the article highlights the shifts in the external observation and internal self-observation of socialist society with respect to the change in epistemological approaches, research topics, patterns of construction of societal structures and the confluence between political expectations, professional self-understandings and impact on policy-making processes.

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Christoph Lorke, Armut im geteilten Deutschland. Die Wahrnehmung sozialer Randlagen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR. Frankfurt am Main/New York, Campus 2015

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The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980

The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980

Opinion polling behind and across the Iron Curtain

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