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Selbstkontrolle lehren: Verkehrssicherheit und Verkehrserziehung in der frühen Bundesrepublik
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dc.contributor.authorNowak, Kaide
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-13T09:11:20Z
dc.date.available2017-04-01T10:21:49Z
dc.date.issued2016de
dc.identifier.issn0172-6404de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/46553
dc.description.abstractIn the 1950s, the Federal Republic of Germany had to cope with a situation referred to at the time as "Verkehrskrise" (traffic crisis). In a relatively short time span, the number of cars on German roads had increased rapidly, as well as the number of accidents and fatalities. Correspondingly, efforts in traffic education were heavily intensified. By examining public campaigns and expert discourse, the article explores how the notion of self-control gained more and more acceptance among road safety experts, and eventually helped to establish a paradigm change in Western German traffic education. In the course of the three decades from the 1950s to the 1970s, the focus shifted from enforcement by appealing to reason and disciplinary endeavors to the internalization of adequate behavior on the road and competence behind the wheel. Traffic education aimed to motivate road users to regulate themselves and to improve their ability to adapt to traffic situations. It tried to establish a specialized "seventh sense" as the core element of vernacular risk practices on the road. The notion of self-control, as implemented in public campaigns and other road safety activities, relied on societal models and certain notions of social and political order. These included, in particular, traditional family and gender roles, Christian religious values, and democratic freedom. Therefore, road traffic can be regarded as a cultural concept with road safety as a discursive arena. In that sense, road safety does not appear as a static state but was in a state of flux just as traffic itself was. Thus it required self-control and routinized yet flexible practices to improve the resilience of each individual road user to the risk of accidents as well as the resilience of the traffic system itself. (author's abstract)en
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dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcGeschichtede
dc.subject.ddcHistoryen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.titleTeaching self-control: road safety and traffic education in postwar Germanyde
dc.title.alternativeSelbstkontrolle lehren: Verkehrssicherheit und Verkehrserziehung in der frühen Bundesrepublikde
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalHistorical Social Research
dc.source.volume41de
dc.publisher.countryDEU
dc.source.issue1de
dc.subject.classozSociology of Trafficen
dc.subject.classozSocial History, Historical Social Researchen
dc.subject.classozSozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschungde
dc.subject.classozVerkehrssoziologiede
dc.subject.thesozVerkehrssicherheitde
dc.subject.thesozBundesrepublik Deutschlandde
dc.subject.thesoz20. Jahrhundertde
dc.subject.thesoztransportation policyen
dc.subject.thesozÖffentlichkeitde
dc.subject.thesozhistorische Entwicklungde
dc.subject.thesoztraffic behavioren
dc.subject.thesozStraßenverkehrde
dc.subject.thesozWertorientierungde
dc.subject.thesozrisken
dc.subject.thesozgender roleen
dc.subject.thesozvalue-orientationen
dc.subject.thesozFederal Republic of Germanyen
dc.subject.thesozthe publicen
dc.subject.thesozKraftfahrzeugde
dc.subject.thesozGeschlechtsrollede
dc.subject.thesozroad safety educationen
dc.subject.thesozInfrastrukturde
dc.subject.thesozhistorical developmenten
dc.subject.thesozmotor vehicleen
dc.subject.thesozVerkehrsverhaltende
dc.subject.thesozKampagnede
dc.subject.thesozTechnologiede
dc.subject.thesozcampaignen
dc.subject.thesozSelbstkontrollede
dc.subject.thesozroad trafficen
dc.subject.thesozVerkehrserziehungde
dc.subject.thesozinfrastructureen
dc.subject.thesozRisikode
dc.subject.thesozMoralde
dc.subject.thesoztraffic safetyen
dc.subject.thesozVerkehrspolitikde
dc.subject.thesozmoralityen
dc.subject.thesozself-controlen
dc.subject.thesoztwentieth centuryen
dc.subject.thesoztechnologyen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-46553-7
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0en
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dc.source.issuetopicRisk as an analytical category: selected studies in the social history of the twentieth century
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.135-153de
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