Journal article

Publication year: 2000

Pages: 517-534

Journal: Berliner Journal für Soziologie

Volume number: 10

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0863-1808

eISSN: 1862-2593

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03204370

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
The article proposes a theoretical concept and an empirical operationalization of "political culture" responding to the conditions of the "postnational constellation", i.e. the empirical and normative devaluation of the nation state as both, an instrument of regulation and a focus of identification. The national form turns problematic, especially in post-socialist countries, since they witness an unveiling of cultural conflicts which had been supressed under socialist rule, inhibiting a primarily affirmative relation to the "nation". Thus, I conceptualize political culture from the perspective of a discourse-ethically modified model of civil society, stressing public debates over collective identity. Especially debates on the collective past are the empirical basis of this conception because they display the argumentative micro-structures underlying the proposed model of political culture. A scetchy analysis of a memory debate in contemporary Russia serves to exemplify the theses and leads to the assessment that post-Soviet Russia makes up for the processes typical for societies of high modernity, though under dilemmatic conditions.

Harvard Citation style: Langenohl, A. (2000) Politische Kultur in den Zeiten der Konfliktenttarnung: Zur postkommunistischen Modernisierung kollektiver Erinnerungspraktiken, Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 10(4), pp. 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03204370

APA Citation style: Langenohl, A. (2000). Politische Kultur in den Zeiten der Konfliktenttarnung: Zur postkommunistischen Modernisierung kollektiver Erinnerungspraktiken. Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 10(4), 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03204370