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"We Are the People." Refugee-'Crisis,' and the Drag-Effects of Social Habitus in German Society
"Wir sind das Volk." Flüchtlingskrise und Nachhinkeffekte beim sozialen Habitus in der deutschen Gesellschaft
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Abstract In Germany, like in other European countries, one can observe the recent rise of right wing movements, referred to by some authors as the New Right (Bruns, Glösel and Strobel 2016). During the last years those tendencies were able to create and establish closed pictures of national identities, and p... view more
In Germany, like in other European countries, one can observe the recent rise of right wing movements, referred to by some authors as the New Right (Bruns, Glösel and Strobel 2016). During the last years those tendencies were able to create and establish closed pictures of national identities, and promote these quite successfully through populist discourses (Speit 2016, 314). Since the so called ‘Refugee-crisis,’ they gained even more approval throughout German society and established the ‘Muslim’ as contrary to German habitus. On the contrary there are also civic movements that show explicit solidarity with refugees and offer their help to the newcomers, which was labelled as ‘welcome-culture.’ Since this polarisation of attitudes towards refugees is so obvious, the question that is addressed in this article concerns the motives and structural circumstances of this division of orientations throughout German society, and hints at questions of identity and habitus.... view less
Keywords
Elias, N.; The New Right; social milieu; value-orientation; social norm; Federal Republic of Germany; habits; populism; attitude; ethnic group; political right; polarization; identification; migration; refugee; prejudice; immigration; national identity; ideology
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Free Keywords
Refugee-crisis; drag-effect of social habitus; Welcome-culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 133-154
Journal
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.4.133-154
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed