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• Title:
  Transformation Research and the Longue Durée of 1989: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data
• Creator:
  Brückweh, Kerstin;
  Zöller, Kathrin
• Contributor:
  Centre for Contemporary History, Am Neuen Markt 1, 14467 Potsdam, Germany;
  Kerstin Brückweh directs a research group called The Longue Durée of 1989: Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany. She is a lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the University of Tübingen, and currently a fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt). Kerstin Brückweh is the author of two books: Mordlust 2006 and Menschen zählen 2015.;
  Kathrin Zöller is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany. As a member of the research project The Longue Durée of 1989: Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany her work focusses on East German Schools in Upheaval between 1979 and 2000. Her main interests are the social history of upheaval, education history and secondary analysis of social science data.;
  kerstin.brueckweh@uni-tuebingen.de;
  zoeller@zzf-potsdam.de
• Description:
  In recent years, historians have increasingly looked at social science data in their search for sources to study the transformation period. Researchers hope that a secondary analysis of this data will expand the existing sources. This expansion promises new perspectives, while simultaneously bringing new methodological challenges to the discipline. This article deals with both: 1. It uses a history of knowledge approach to evaluate the topics and tools of transformation research. It also argues that social scientists were not only producers of knowledge but historical actors in the restructuring of the institutions of social sciences in East Germany after 1989/90. 2. With the German Socio-Economic Panel and especially the Saxonian Longitudinal Study as an example, the article refers to the content of the studies itself – in this case, the East German school as a site of life-worlds in upheaval. It concludes that the encounter of social scientists and historians is very fruitful for historians interested in the interaction of system change and everyday life. That is, the secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative social science data compliments ‘classical’ sources of historical research by providing insights into memories and experiences at different times in the historical process.;
  Publikacja współfinansowana w ramach programu Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego pod nazwą „Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki” – projekt nr 11H 12 0305 81 (umowa nr 0027/NPRH2/H11/81/2012) pt. „Archiwum Danych Jakościowych przy IFiS PAN”, realizowany w latach 2012–2018 w Instytucie Filozofii i Socjologii PAN.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.05.24;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Relation:
  Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej; 1;
  15
• Subject:
  transformation;
  contemporary history;
  secondary analysis;
  history of knowledge;
  East Germany;
  school/education;
  panel studies
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28631 ;
  1733-8069;
  10.18778/1733-8069.15.1.05
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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