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Three Generations of Mobility via Education
A Longitudinal Analysis in East and West Germany
in Three Post-War Decades
Duration: Nov. 2010 - Oct. 2013. Project leader: Prof. Ingrid Miethe. Funded by: DFG
Historical Perspective:
Sociological Perspective:
1950
1st Thesis
2nd Thesis
Different political systems provide different educational opportunities for people from non-academic family backgrounds. Gaining
an academic degree therefore depends not only on a person’s
social background, but also on political decisions. From a historical
point of view, three decades can be distinguished in relation to
political reforms in East and West Germany.
We conceptualize the following decades using the theoretical
concept of ‘political opportunity structures’ (POS):
1970
The relation between social background and education persists in
spite of political reforms. Nevertheless, some people from nonacademic family backgrounds gain academic degrees.
To explain the difficulties of their educational advancement,
scientific discourse to date has concentrated on the barriers and
the missing resources.
1990
1950s: GDR: good POS; FRG: adverse POS
1970s: GDR: adverse POS; FRG: good POS
1990s: adverse POS after reunification
Rather than such a social deficit perspective, we are interested in
the criteria for success.
Question:
How do family background, political opportunity structure and educational policy interact
in relation to the educational careers of first generation academics?
Theoretical Concept:
Int’l political and economical development, labor market,
change of generations and elites, polit. interests of ruling parties, framing
Forms of schools and universities, transitions and access criteria,
2nd and 3rd chance education, scholarships, curricula
Family Background and Milieu
Cultural and social capital, intergenerational transmission,
behavior, habitus, values and dispositions
Concept of Capital
(Bourdieu)
Educational System
Macroscopic
level
Mesoscopic
level
BIOGRAPHY
Political Process Approach
Political Opportunity Structure
Microscopic
level
Analytical Method: Theory-Oriented Case Studies
Global Analysis
GA 1
Case Study 1
Hypothesis A
Consequential
Hypotheses
GA 2
Type A
GA 3
Type B
Hypothesis B
Address:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft
Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21B
35394 Giessen
TEAM:
Prof. Ingrid Miethe
Dr. Maja Suderland
Dr. Heike Dierckx
Regina Soremski, M.A.
Our approach combines the method of
hermeneutical case study (Rosenthal)
with comparative analysis (Bohnsack).
Global analyses are necessary to
differentiate the hypotheses generated on
the basis of the empirical data and include
more cases.
CONTACT:
E-mail: [email protected]
Further information:
www.uni-giessen.de