30209

Action and handling of the crisis in society

Rolf-Dieter Hepp

Location: Garystr.55/302b Seminarraum (Garystr. 55)

Schedule: Mo, 12-14

Class starts on: 2023-10-16

Course language: English

Contact hours: 2

Number of participants: 21

Limited attendance: Yes

Attendance required: Yes

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Comments

Two years ago, the Corona crisis dominated the political-media, scientific and everyday discourse. Before Corona, the climate crisis was the media-dominating phenomenon. In the past two decades, we have been confronted with the so-called refugee and migration crisis, the banking, financial and economic crisis, the sovereign debt and euro crisis, the crisis of democracy, (popular) parties and representation, the crisis of the welfare state, the media crisis, the education crisis and the demographic crisis. In addition, there are humanitarian crises as well as intra-societal or inter-state conflicts and wars, which are perceived as crises. Not to forget, finally, relationship, marriage or family crises and individual crises such as depression, burnout or midlife crisis. Individual economic sectors or companies are constantly in crisis. In medicine, a critical turning point in the course of a disease is defined as a crisis.

In addition to the periodically recurring economic crises, the profound transformation of societies in the 19th century contributed to the growing importance of the concept of crisis for the description of social conditions and forced the further scientific examination of the concept of crisis. It seemed particularly suitable for characterizing the uncertain, dynamic and open social development that resulted from the capitalist penetration of the economy and society and manifested itself, among other things, in the economic-social consequences of industrialization, urbanization, the founding of political associations, parties and trade unions, or in the progressive democratization of state and society and the first beginnings of welfare state services.