Omvæltning og opløsning en masse - DDR statens endeligt

Abstract

It is argued that mass-activity is not determined by some universal laws of mass behavior or an expression of some attributed mass-personality. lnstead we must study and generalize how concrete mass-activities unfold and change in concrete socio-cultural contexts with regard to their contents, perspectives, directions, and goals, their internat relations, dynamics, and forms. We must consider the meaning and reasons to take part in particular ways from particular participant locations and perspectives vis a vis other participants and the overall mass-activity in context. Such a view is illustrated with phenomena from of the turn-over and disintegration of the GDR state, based mainly on materials from the author's participant observations. The changing nature of mass-activities and reactions in GRD from september 89 until the early spring of 91 are thus outlined.