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Author Gessner, Dieter, 1940- author.

Title People's community 1933-1945 : on the emergence and meaning of a political buzzword / Dieter Gessner
Published Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (x, 201 pages)
Contents Ideology and science -- Updating/modernization of völkisch ideology -- Hans Freyer's sociology of völkisch society -- "German folk and cultural soil" -- Kulturraumforschung -- Völkische Rassenforschung - dismissible or undeniable (Volk and/or Rasse) -- Völkische Wissenschaften -- Volk/Volksgemeinschaft - political buzzword for an ideologically based knowledge construct
Summary The author of this volume examines the historical development and popularization of the ideological concept of the Volksgemeinschaft. This is a process of scientification, which the author describes using the examples of sociology, history, economics, demography, psychology, and geography. Its result is an ideologically based construct of knowledge determined by völkisch questions: the Volksgemeinschaft. The Content Ideology and science Updating/modernization of the völkisch ideology Hans Freyer's sociology of the völkisch society "German folk and cultural soil" - cultural space research Völkische race research - dismissible or undeniable (people and/or race) Völkische sciences Volk/Volksgemeinschaft - political catchword for an ideologically based knowledge construct The Target groups Lecturers, students and practitioners from the fields of Sociology Political science History Cultural studies Psychology, human medicine, population science Cultural studies Law Economics Journalism The Author Dr. Dieter Gessner is a journalist and historian. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation
Bibliography Incldues bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 5, 2024)
Subject Volksgemeinschaft (The German word)
German language -- Etymology.
German language -- Terms and phrases
Nazis -- Language
Jargon (Terminology) -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Germany -- Languages -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783658426705
3658426705
Other Titles Volksgemeinschaft 1933 - 1945. English