Contemporary German youth and their elders : a generational comparison
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Contemporary German youth and their elders : a generational comparison
（Contributions to the study of childhood and youth, no. 5）
Greenwood Press, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Systematic research on the changing experience and social and political characteristics of German youth has been carried out in the Federal Republic of Germany on an ongoing basis since the early 1950s. Until now, however, the results of these long-term studies have not been made available in English. Six volumes of this research--including new analyses prepared especially for this book--are distilled in the present work, which offers a comprehensive and focused portrait of German youth of succeeding postwar generations from 1953 to the present.
Following an introductory survey of the scope and themes addressed in the study, the authors highlight the contrasting experiences of youth of the 1980s and those who came of age soon after the end of World War II. They examine the fundamental constituents of youth as a developmental period, with particular reference to changes in the recent era. Attitudinal scales are developed and applied to assessments of variations in social and political orientation among generations and between distinct subgroups of contemporary youth. Differences between young women in the early postwar period and the alternative era of the 1970s and 1980s are explored. Focusing on views of the future, the final chapter looks at the diversity of lifestyles that has become characteristic of youth over the last decade and at the increasing differentiation between generations. Providng a wealth of new material on an important body of research, this book makes a substantial contribution to the study of youth in advanced industrialized nations. An appropriate resource for courses or studies in various disciplines in sociology, geography, political science, and social history.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The War and After: Autobiographical Attempts to Deal with the Past
Youth as a Biographical Phase
Models of Social Orientation: Images of the Self in the Social World
Youth Centrism and Relationships between the Generations
Changes in German Youth in the Postwar Period
Political Differences between Postwar and Alternative-Era Women
How Young People Feel about the Future: Politics of Optimism and Pessimism
References and Bibliography
Index
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