How Can I Maintain My Own Identity within a Crowd? Suggestions from Totalitarian Experiences

Autor/in	Franzenburg, Geert
Titel	How Can I Maintain My Own Identity within a Crowd? Suggestions from Totalitarian Experiences
Quelle	In: Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 13 (2022) 2, S.91-107 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2255-7547
DOI	10.2478/dcse-2022-0021
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Authoritarianism; Biographies; Social Systems; Journalism; Social Change; Group Dynamics; Behavior Change; Foreign Countries; Philosophy; Group Membership; Political Attitudes; Individualism; Collectivism; Sociology; Grounded Theory; Coping; Writing (Composition); Personal Autonomy; Violence; Physical Activities; Family Relationship; Military Personnel; Public Officials; Russia (Moscow); Germany; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Autoritarismus; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Social system; Soziales System; Journalistik; Journalismus; Sozialer Wandel; Gruppendynamik; Ausland; Philosophie; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Individualismus; Soziologie; Bewältigung; Schreibübung; Individuelle Autonomie; Gewalt; Deutschland
Abstract	How can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings of the Soviet Union in the 1920s as manifested in everyday life in Moscow (journalistic-systemic view). On the other hand, on biographies of NSDAP members in Germany in the 1920s (biographical approach). The theoretical background provides philosophical treatises from this period (Elias Canetti, José Ortega y Gasset, and Karl Jaspers). Because the situations characterize starting points of totalitarian system (Sowjet-Union/Nazi-Regime), they allow transformations into current and future experiences of collective and group pressure in private and business life, where people experience similar challenges and temptations that are more elementary. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01