Seismograf statt Pflanze. Jugendumfragen in den 50er Jahren und ihr Beitrag zur Konstruktion neuer Jugendbilder.

Autor/in	Janssen, Philip Jost
Titel	Seismograf statt Pflanze. Jugendumfragen in den 50er Jahren und ihr Beitrag zur Konstruktion neuer Jugendbilder.
Quelle	In: Bildung und Erziehung, 64 (2011) 2, S. 173-189Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	deutsch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0006-2456; 2194-3834
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Umfrage; Sozialforschung; Jugendforschung; Massenmedien; Geschichte (Histor); Öffentliche Meinung; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Nachkriegszeit; Biografie; Jugendlicher; Deutschland-BRD
Abstract	"Youth" is a key category for the self-image of the early FRG. However, the public and scientific discourses are not only about youth. Youth stands as an object of projection, on which society discusses its own future as a modern mass, consumption and media society "after the disaster" in 1945. The interdisciplinary youth research in that phase faced the challenge by sociology and transformed through quantification in a fundamental way. With new survey methods, with the new "countability" of youth, concepts and images of youth also changed. This article outlines some scientific-historical aspects of that particular situation in the 1950's and tries to point out, how closely methodical controversies were connected with Americanization and democratization discourses. Furthermore, convergences are shown between youth analysis and research programs, biographical background as well as maxims of West German politics. Those connections become clearer, when a closer look is taken on the influential sociologist Helmut Schelsky and his findings about the "Skeptische Generation". (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2011/4