Employment problems under socialism

Symbol and ritual under National Socialism

The relationship of symbol and ritual to the 'world-view' of National Socialism has rarely been discussed. In this article however, it is argued that for Nazism, symbol and ritual were essential forms of ideological presentation and reinforcement. The NSDAP reduced political relationships to the workings of an eschatology, constructed upon symbols relating either to the German Volksgemeinschaft...

F. Schneider (ed): Psychiatry under National Socialism – Remembrance and Responsibility

Am 26. November 2010 erhoben sich im großen Saal des Internationalen Congress Centrums in Berlin rund 3.000 Psychiaterinnen und Psychiater, um für eineMinute zu schweigen. Was sie zuvor gehört hatten, war zutiefst beeindruckend und blieb für die Anwesenden unvergesslich. Prof. Frank Schneider, der Präsident der deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), ...

Medicine under socialism. Some observations on Yugoslavia and China.

Based on fieldwork in Yugoslavia and China. we compare medicine in two societies which are attempting to construct their own unique paths to socialism. After a brief description of each country and its sociopolitical system, we sketch the broad outlines of the health care system which has evolved. We then discuss certain constraints on achieving the socialist objectives of equality of access to...

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

Self - employment after socialism : Intergenerational links , entrepreneurial values , and human capital

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development – parental role models – for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial...