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Das Buch beleuchtet die aktuellen gesellschaftlichen
Entwicklungsbedingungen in der EU in vergleichender Perspektive.
Auf der Basis theoretischer Ansatze und umfassender empirischer
Befunde werden die Ursachen des weitreichenden gesellschaftlichen
Unbehagens der BurgerInnen, zentrale Charakteristika der aktuellen
Stimmungslagen in Europa und potentielle
Solidaritatseinschrankungen im Zuge der Krise analysiert. Die
vorliegende Monographie wurde als Habilitationsschrift an der
Universitat Salzburg approbiert. Auszuge aus den Gutachten: "Ich
wunsche der Arbeit, dass sie die breite Leserschaft erreicht, die
sie verdient." (Nina Baur, TU Berlin) "Unverkennbar stellt die
Arbeit den Versuch eines grossen Wurfs dar, analytisch auf der
Hoehe der Theoriediskussion, methodisch elaboriert und empirisch
gehaltvoll." (Georg Vobruba, Universitat Leipzig) "I am impressed
by Aschauers knowledge and good use of so many statistical
techniques." (Eldad Davidov, Universitat Zurich)
Interkulturelle und landervergleichende Umfrageforschung ist
aktuell wohl die groesste Herausforderung der standardisierten
internationalen Meinungserhebungen. Sie weist nicht nur
organisatorische, sondern auch eine Vielzahl methodischer und
wissenschaftstheoretischer Problemlagen auf. In einem umfassenden
Ansatz differenzieren die Autoren diese methodischen
Problembereiche weiter aus. Sie diskutieren Loesungsansatze fur das
Problem der funktionalen AEquivalenz und eroeffnen Perspektiven fur
eine Methodologie interkultureller und landervergleichender
Sozialforschung. Dabei erweitern sie die bisherige
AEquivalenzforschung wesentlich.
Die Umfrageforschung zahlt nach wie vor zu den am meisten
eingesetzten - tenerfassungsmethoden in den Sozialwissenschaften,
aus denen ein Wissens- winn und Erkenntnisfortschritt erwartet
wird. Wenngleich sich die Methoden heute stark ausdifferenzieren
und die Modi diversifizieren, fehlt es immer noch an
Grundlagenforschung in diesem Bereich. Das vorliegende Buch soll
einen weiteren Ansatz darstellen, die grundleg- den Elemente der
Befragung sowie ihre Einbettung im prozessorientierten - lauf der
Umfrage zu strukturieren. Dabei interessieren vor allem Raum-, Ze-
und Befindlichkeitsaspekte und ihre jeweiligen Effekte. Es wird
wohl noch intensiver weiterer Forschung, aber auch Uberzeugu-
arbeit bedurfen, um die Umfrageforschung von ihrem eingespielten
und ang- lich so sicheren Weg zu neuen methodischen Perspektiven zu
bringen, die eine weitere Annaherung an Wahrheits- und
Wirklichkeitsvorstellungen in Aussicht stellen. Reinhard
Bachleitner Martin Weichbold Wolfgang Aschauer Salzburg, Janner
2010 1 Einleitung: Problemstellung und Zielperspektiven Die
Befragung ist hinsichtlich der Haufigkeit ihrer Anwendung mehr denn
je die bedeutendste Methode der empirischen Sozialforschung. Die
von Rene Konig (1952: 27) gewagte Prophezeiung, dass das Interview
in seinen verschiedenen Formen doch immer der Konigsweg der
praktischen Sozialforschung bleiben" werde, hat auch nach uber
einem halben Jahrhundert nichts von ihrer Gultigkeit verloren. Mehr
denn je fullt auch die Literatur uber die Befragung unzahlige
Druckseiten. Dies gilt zum einen fur Lehrbucher."
The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried
out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations
has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there
has been growing public interest in how children experience
military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war
and its aftermath. In light of the many brutal post-colonialist
civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child
soldiers have in particular gained increased attention.
Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and
World War II has also increasingly been written from the
perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their
memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. A similar
generational change has also taken place in the societies of the
perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as
children took over the role of war witnesses from the soldiers of
the German Wehrmacht. Moreover, intensified focus on children's
experiences and their strategies for dealing with what they went
through is evident in Eastern Europe as well. In Children and War:
Past and Present Volume II scholars from different academic
disciplines, practitioners in the field, and representatives of
government and non-governmental institutions present a further
selection of studies in this sensitive subject from different
angles and in various methodological ways. A number of studies
investigate the difficult areas of recovery and reintegration both
of child soldiers specifically, and children affected by armed
conflict. Further sections examine Victims and Witnesses, Public
Discourse and Education and World War II and the Second Generation.
The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried
out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations
has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there
has been growing public interest in how children experience
military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war
and its aftermath. In light of the many brutal post-colonialist
civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child
soldiers have in particular gained increased attention.
Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and
World War II has also increasingly been written from the
perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their
memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. A similar
generational change has also taken place in the societies of the
perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as
children took over the role of war witnesses from the soldiers of
the German Wehrmacht. Moreover, intensified focus on children's
experiences and their strategies for dealing with what they went
through is evident in Eastern Europe as well. In Children and War:
Past and Present scholars from different academic disciplines,
practitioners in the field, and representatives of government and
non-governmental institutions approach this sensitive subject from
different angles and in various methodological ways. The book shows
how children expressed their experiences in letters, memoirs and
diaries during and after World War I and World War II and how
children remembered those wars. Many of the authors also deal with
various long-term psychological effects. Using the example of
children's literature in World War I and the representation of
child survivors in the postwar cinema, another focus of the book is
on the representation of children in different wars. Based on
post-colonial and contemporary wars in Africa, images of girl and
boy soldiers created by the media, NGOs and governments as well as
trends in how they are represented in contemporary research are
also discussed. The last section of the book concentrates on
various institutions such as welfare organisations and NGOs dealing
with children in different wars. How have institutions supported
children? And concerning contemporary conflicts, how does the
international community face the question of international justice
and adapt to children's needs?
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