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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792936203321

Autore

Bergerson Andrew Stuart

Titolo

Ruptures in the everyday : views of modern Germany from the ground / / editors, Andrew Bergerson, Leonard Schmieding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

ISBN

1-78533-533-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; ; 15

Classificazione

NQ 1069

Disciplina

943.087

Soggetti

Social change - Germany - Psychological aspects

Adjustment (Psychology) - Germany

Identity (Psychology) - Germany

Life change events - Germany - Psychological aspects

Microsociology

Germans - Attitudes

National characteristics, German

Germany Social conditions 1990-

Germany History Social aspects 20th century

Germany History Social aspects 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wende -- Self -- Interpersonal relationships -- Families -- Objects -- Institutions -- Antisemitism -- Violent worlds -- Taking place -- Telling stories.

Sommario/riassunto

"During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories--and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self,



society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work "on the ground." "--Provided by publisher.