SFB 580: Social Developments after Structural Change - Discontinuity, Tradition, Structural Formation

对东德国转型的第一阶段研究是以这样一种期望为指导的：通过快速现代化的进程，东方将迅速适应西方的地位。在第二阶段，这种方法已经改变：起点不再假设东德国仅仅受到现代化滞后的阻碍，这种滞后可以随着时间的推移而减少，而是在东部有该地区特有的发展。这种假设，社会发展和危机管理的特定逻辑存在于东方是这个合作研究中心的中心焦点。因此，一般的研究问题是：在什么条件下，在哪些领域，我们可以预期东方进一步走向与西方更大的相似性，以及我们可以预期在哪里稳定差异？社会学习的过程和社会制度的根本转变是否会导致新的永久性安排，或者在东德国是否会出现强烈的紧张局势和不稳定，从而导致反复的破坏？东德的社会结构如何与整个德国和整个欧洲的新发展相融合？对社会发展和危机管理的中期逻辑的研究为分析东欧和中欧后社会主义社会的进一步转型以及讨论西方社会的现代化危机创造了重要的比较基础。因此，计划在第二个赠款期内，加强研究重点，与西欧和东欧社会的发展进行比较。

The first phase of research into the transformation of East Germany was guided by the expectation that the East would quickly adapt to the status of the West by a proc-ess of rapid modernisation. In the second phase this approach has been changed: The starting point no longer assumes that East Germany is simply hampered by a modernisation lag that can be reduced over time but rather that in the East there are developments particular to that region. This assumption that a specific logic of societal development and crisis management exists in the East is the central focus of this col-laborative research centre. The general research questions therefore are: Under which conditions and in which areas can we expect further moves in the East towards a greater similarity with the West, and where might we expect a stabilisation of differences? Do processes of social learning and the underlying transformation of societal institutions result in new permanent arrangements or will there be strong tensions and instabilities in East Germany that will lead to repeated disruptions? How do the East German social structures blend with new developments in Germany as a whole and across Europe? The research into the mid-term logic of societal developments and crisis management creates an important basis for comparisons both for the analysis of further transformations of East and mid-European post-socialist societies and for the discussion of modernisation crises in western societies. In a second grant period a stronger research focus on comparisons with developments in western and eastern European societies is there-fore planned.