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The Vicious circle of the Identity of the East German Masses - the Dilemma of the Construction of the German Common National Identity
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Abstract After the World War II, Germany was divided into two parts, the East and the West carried out social economy and national construction for half a century under the guidance of planned economy and market economy separately. The longer the division of Germany, the greater the gap between east and west... view more
After the World War II, Germany was divided into two parts, the East and the West carried out social economy and national construction for half a century under the guidance of planned economy and market economy separately. The longer the division of Germany, the greater the gap between east and west in terms of economic system, political culture and so on. Now, Germany has been unified for more than 30 years, and the economic integration between the East and the West has achieved remarkable results. However, in terms of identity, there are still barriers between east and west that hinder the construction of a common German identity. In order to figure out what factors hinder the German identity forming, through reviewing history of the process of German economic integration, unequal economic developing structure was found that it could be origin of the barriers.... view less
Keywords
ALLBUS; Federal Republic of Germany; New Federal States; reunification; economic change; socioeconomic development; socioeconomic position; identity; national identity; identity formation; intra-German relations; economic integration; economic impact; inequality
Classification
Sociology of Economics
Free Keywords
German General Social Survey - ALLBUS 2018 (ZA5272 v1.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 235-241
Journal
Highlights in Business, Economics and Management, 2 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.54097/hbem.v2i.2368
ISSN
2957-952X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed