Socialist and post-socialist functional elites in East Germany

Abstract: "This paper provides a brief overview of elite change and continuity in East Germany as a post-socialist society. To do so, at first, some peculiarities of the former cadre system and elites in socialist East Germany, i.e. the late German Democratic Republic, are addressed with regard to social structure development and the arrangement of generations. Selected empirical evidence is based on cross-sectoral, longitudinal and cohort analyses and the inspection of prosopographic elite data compiled until the end of the 1980s which deconstruct the myth of a levelled egalitarian socialist society. In the second part of the paper, elite change and continuity after the political change of 1989/90 is discussed in the context of the transformation of institutions. Inspired by Bourdieu's analytic paradigm, one central thesis on the career survivals, take-offs, and breakdowns of East German elites is the continued validity and efficacy of social and cultural capital obtained before the fall of

Weitere Titel
Sozialistische und postsozialistische Eliten in Ostdeutschland
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Socialist and post-socialist functional elites in East Germany ; volume:37 ; number:2 ; year:2012 ; pages:123-138
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Historical social research ; 37, Heft 2 (2012), 123-138

Klassifikation
Politik
Geschichte

Urheber
Salheiser, Axel

DOI
10.12759/hsr.37.2012.2.123-138
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-372864
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