The Impact of Two Reunification-Era Debates on the East German Sense of Identity

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores L. Augustine
Keyword(s):  
East German ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Impact

The Impact of Immigration on Competing Natives' Wages: Evidence from German Reunification

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Prantl ◽  
Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
German Reunification ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
East German ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Direct Measures

After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, a sudden, unexpected, and massive influx of East German migrants hit the entire West German labor market. The context is well suited for investigating whether immigration influences natives' wages and how the effects depend on product and labor market conditions. We propose direct measures of potential migration with exogenous variation, compare migrants to natives with similar capabilities, and segment the labor market along predetermined margins. We find that immigration can have negative effects on the wages of natives. These effects surface when product and labor markets are competitive but not under regulations that restrict the entry of firms and provide workers with a strong influence on firms' decision making.

Globalization, Reterritorialization, and Marketing

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 150-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir H. Kale ◽  
Natalina Zlatevska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Impact

Accelerated globalization has dramatically altered the ways in which people consume, work, gather information, play and define their identity. Most extant discourse on globalization, particularly in the business discipline, ignores the impact of globalization on the identity of those affected. One of the key characteristics of globalization is deterritorialization; the severance of social, political, and cultural practices from their native places. Deterritorialization potentially destabilizes people‘s identity. In response, individuals will undertake activities and behaviors which help them “reterritorialize” and restore their sense of identity. This phenomenon has interesting implications for researchers as well as practitioners.

The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Big Mac, and Coke in the Land of the Gauls

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Kuisel
Keyword(s):  
American Business ◽  
General Issue ◽  
Mickey Mouse ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on major American business enterprises in France. It addresses three issues. First, did Coca-Cola and the others directly export their products, techniques, and strategies to France, or did they modify their ways to suit the locals? Did they impose or adapt? A second issue is an assessment of the impact of these American multinationals: What kind of reception did they get from French consumers, and what effects did they have on their French competitors? These questions lead toward a third and more general issue—the importance of culture and identity in determining French reaction. Were the perils of these outsiders caused by American managers' misunderstanding or disregard of French values, traditions, and sense of identity? Did culture hamper American business or did it prove so supple that it was of little consequence?

Cohort Changes in the Level and Dispersion of Gender Ideology after German Reunification: Results from a Natural Experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 814-828
Author(s):  
Christian Ebner ◽  
Michael Kühhirt ◽  
Philipp Lersch
Keyword(s):  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
German Reunification ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
East German ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Modernization theorists’ ‘rising tide hypothesis’ predicted the continuous spread of egalitarian gender ideologies across the globe. We revisit this assumption by studying reunified Germany, a country that did not follow a strict modernization pathway. The socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) actively fostered female employment and systematically promoted egalitarian ideologies before reunification with West Germany and the resulting incorporation into a conservative welfare state and market economy. Based on nationally representative, pooled cross-sectional data from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) from 1991 to 2016, we apply variance function regression to examine the impact of German reunification—akin to a natural experiment—on the average levels and dispersion of gender ideology. The results show: (i) East German cohorts socialized after reunification hold less egalitarian ideologies than cohorts socialized in the GDR, disrupting the rising tide. (ii) East German cohorts hold more egalitarian ideologies than West German cohorts, but the East-West gap is less pronounced for post-reunification cohorts. (iii) Cohorts in East Germany show higher conformity with gender ideology than their counterparts in West Germany; yet conformity did not change after reunification. (iv) Younger cohorts in West Germany show higher conformity with gender ideology than older cohorts.

The Workhouse Dresden-Leuben After 1945: A Microstudy of Local Continuities in Postwar East Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-144
Author(s):  
Markus Wahl
Keyword(s):  
East Germany ◽  
State Level ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
German State ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
East German ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact

By using the workhouse of Dresden as a microstudy, this article explores local continuities in postwar East Germany. It argues that this example not only illustrates the persistence of mentalities towards ‘sexual and social deviance’, not least as a legacy of the Third Reich, but also questions the assumption of a strictly centralized state and 1945 as a caesura. In a first step, the article shows the continuity of personnel at the state level, who decided that the workhouse as an institution should have a future in the new East German state after 1945, before revealing that local authorities were also unable to dissociate themselves with the views towards this institution of the past. In the end, the article enters this institution with help of archival sources, architectural plans, and photographs, exploring the impact of this state and local continuity on the everyday lives of inmates in this workhouse in Dresden. In doing so, it contributes to the historiography of East Germany by revealing the agency of different individuals, even if confined to a ‘total institution’.

Video games and young children’s evolving sense of identity: a qualitative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina H. Bassiouni ◽  
Chris Hackley
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to investigate children’s experience as consumers of video games and associated digital communication technology, and the role this experience may play in their evolving senses of identity. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative depth interviews and discussions were conducted in a convenience sample consisting of 22 children of both genders aged 6-12 years, parents and video games company executives in the southwest of the UK. The fully transcribed data sets amounting to some 27,000 words were analysed using discourse analysis. Findings The findings revealed the heightened importance that the knowledge of video games plays in children’s strategies for negotiating their nascent sense of identity with regard to peer groups, family relationships and gender identity. Video games were not only a leisure activity but also a shared cultural resource that mediated personal and family relationships. Research limitations/implications The study is based on an interpretive analysis of data sets from a small convenience sample, and is therefore not statistically generalisable. Practical implications This study has suggested that there may be positive benefits to children’s video game playing related to aspects of socialisation, emotional development and economic decision-making. An important caveat is that these benefits arise in the context of games as part of a loving and ordered family life with a balance of activities. Social implications The study hints at the extent to which access to video games and associated digital communications technology has changed children’s experience of childhood and integrated them into the adult world in both positive and negative ways that were not available to previous generations. Originality/value This research addresses a gap in the field and adds to an understanding of the impact of video games on children’s development by drawing on children’s own expression of their subjective experience of games to engage with wider issues of relationships and self-identity.

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