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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
[journal article]

Rommel, Inken

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

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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