Stefan Lochner – författare

Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A, University of Dalarna, language: English, abstract: Die komplexen sozialen Verhaltnisse und Binnenstrukturen zwischen Haftlingen und Haftlingsgruppen in Konzentrationslagern waren mageblich durch die externe Stratifizierung der Haftlingsgesellschaft bestimmt. Mittels dieses perfiden Unterdruckungsinstruments - konstituiert durch das System der Kategorisierung von Haftlingen sowie der Machtdelegation an Funktionshaftlinge - wurde eine starre Sozialstruktur der extremen Ungleichheit formiert. Ziel ist es, die spezifische Ordnung des Terrors"e; (Wolfgang Sofsky) der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager als totale Institutionen absoluter Macht am Beispiel von Buchenwald in ihrer Massivitat darzustellen und Handlungs- und Interaktionsprozesse - exemplifiziert anhand der Auseinandersetzung um die Fuhrungsposition der Haftlingsgesellschaft zwischen den Roten"e; und Grunen"e;, der Ausbildung von Normen und deren Sanktionierung bei Normenbruch und den realisierten Solidaritatsmodellen - zu rekonstruieren

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: G (Good), University of Dalarna (Master Programme of European Political Sociology), language: English, abstract: The collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s was one of the most important occurrence in the 20th century. In only a few months – starting with the institutional compromises in Poland and Hungary and the non-violent revolutions in the GDR and ČSSR - the Soviet-led East European statesystem and later the Soviet Union as well, dispersed in a way and with such rapidy, nobody in the “West” and “East” believed to be possible. Real self-determination of the satellite states or indepenence of the former Soviet Republics and changes in the political and economic system were the consequences. At the highest historic level, the world´s geopolitical order changed dramatically, because the devision into two fields of interest was brought to an end and with it the Cold War. From a European perspective, after the downfall of the “Iron Curtain” the opportunity was opened to fulfill the idea of a European Community, also in a much wider sense, and for Germany the over 40 year lasting existence of two states was repealed with the reunification. In the following passage of the main part I will try to explain why in Poland an institutional compromise was achieved, whereas in East Germany a non-violent revolution broke out. With references to Poland, we can speak of an institutional compromise because the “impetus for change came from the elite, which undertook negotiations with the opposition over the shape of the new institutions”, while in East Germany a revolution took place because “the impetus for change came directly from the mobilization of a broad-based opposition engaged in non-accepted means of mass collective action; the result was systematic change in both the political and the socioeconimoc system”.

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: G, Credits 6, University of Dalarna, language: English, abstract: It is very difficult to give a proper and precise definition of the social group or milieu of intellectuals because of its heterogenity and non-unity. Which should be the criteria and structure similarities that determine the definition? Is it possible to summarize all categories and types within a definition? Many perspectives exist concerning what an intellectual is and of course what his role or function in the society already is or should be, they all depend on different contexts or thematic fields and deviating focuses. Based on this variety I would define the explanandum according to the concept of the Weberian ideal type. In this case we should find universal categories which could stand for every object we can call "e;intellectual"e; in every time and every place, without moral, ethic or functional intentions. To my opinion intellectuals are a minority who have - due to their public/private education or natural talent - an above average expert knowledge or mind and consequently further reaching and profound realizations or specific ideas which are used to produce cultural goods in the broadest way of the word's meaning. This includes for example scientists, authors, journalists, artists, composers, musicians, directors, priests and so on. So we have only three characteristic categories, by the may this makes them in comparison to other social groups - only in a quantitative point of view - a minority: An above average expert knowledge or mind, because of these realizations or ideas of a higher order which are finally transformed and materialized in speech, books, music, films, paintings or sculptures. Let us shortly closer light up these categories, for example in the social system of art, especially the modern art, as one subsystem of the cultural system. Some of the cultural products and with it the specific ideas, realizations and intentions have reached a point that they are for the average citizens, very difficult to understand or to interpret because of a lack of knowledge and mind in this special field. The cultural goods of the subsystem art as the so far final products of development and differentiation can therefore only in the first line really be understood by intellectuals with their special knowledge within this system that is separated from the outside.

"Nichts auf dieser Welt kann gerettet werden, wenn es nicht dazu bestimmt ist, gerettet zu werden." (aus "Falsche Hoffnung" von Manuela Wunderlich)Unsere Umwelt ist verschmutzt, die Luft ist verpestet, in den Gewässern schwimmt der Müll, die Wälder werden abgeholzt und immer mehr Tier- und Pflanzenarten fallen unserem Tun zum Opfer. Wird sich die Natur deshalb irgendwann rächen?Müssen wir uns einst fragen: "Was haben wir getan?" Welche Auswirkungen unser Verhalten eines Tages haben könnte, ist das zentrale Thema dieser Anthologie. Lust auf unterhaltsame Geschichten, die aber auch zum Nachdenken anregen? Dann begleitet uns doch in einehoffentlich fiktiv bleibende Zukunft.

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