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SPORT INVOLVEMENT AND SELF-CONCEPT IN GERMAN AND AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS: A Cross-Cultural Study
In: International review for the sociology of sport: irss ; a quarterly edited on behalf of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), Band 32, Heft 4, S. 357-371
ISSN: 1461-7218
In contrast to the tendency to globalization in the world of sport, the scientific research into sport is largely restricted by national boundaries. The present study tries to break out of the parochial isolation characteristic of social sport studies. To do this, we identify self-concept and development tasks as central features of identity development in adolescence. After briefly discussing the theoretical and methodological problems of cross-cultural research, we empirically investigate the self-concept of selected groups of German and American adolescents. Furthermore, the relationship between involvement in sport and self-concept among adolescents in Germany and the USA will be examined. With regard to the pecularities of cross-cultural research the results are twofold. On the one hand, we found significantly higher self-concept scores for the American adolescents than for their German counterparts. On the other hand, there are more similarities than differences between the groups when age and gender effects on self-concept are under scrutiny. As far as the relationship between involvement in sport and self-concept is concerned, the empirical analysis reveals a positive trend valid across cultures, with those adolescents scoring highest on the self-concept measurement for whom sport plays an important role in their everyday life.
Neo‐Nazi view of U.S.A.: A survey of German and American journals
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 1, Heft 6, S. 24-26
ISSN: 1461-7331
Penny, H. Glenn: Kindred by Choice. Germans and American Indians since 1800
In: Anthropos: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde : international review of anthropology and linguistics : revue internationale d'ethnologie et de linguistique, Band 109, Heft 2, S. 729-730
ISSN: 2942-3139
The Managers: a new examination fo the English, German, and American Executive
In: A Mentor Book
Contributions of German and American jesuits to economics: The last 100 years
In: Forum for social economics, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 25-43
ISSN: 1874-6381
Coincidence or Commonality of Interests? German and American Views on NATO Enlargement
In: International studies review, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 103-111
ISSN: 1468-2486
BOOK REVIEWS - The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America
In: The journal of military history, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 554
ISSN: 0899-3718
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BOOK REVIEWS - Anticipating Total Wan The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914
In: The journal of military history, Band 64, Heft 1, S. 217-218
ISSN: 0899-3718
Gendered Time Allocation and Divorce: A Longitudinal Analysis of German and American Couples
In: Family relations, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 207-226
ISSN: 1741-3729
ObjectiveTo examine the association between divorce and partners' allocation of paid and unpaid work, and change over a few key decades in both West Germany and the United States.BackgroundPast research has indicated that partner similarity in time spent on both paid and unpaid work is associated with a higher risk of marital dissolution. We explore whether the association between paid work disparities and divorce or between unpaid work disparities and divorce changed across time or differed between two cultures.MethodUsing data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the United States and the German Socio‐Economic Panel for West Germany from the mid‐1980s until the end of the 2000s, we conducted event history analyses.ResultsOver time, the risk of divorce declined among couples with a more similar division of labor. In parallel, the relative stability of marriages adhering to a dissimilar pattern of unpaid work decreased in Western Germany.ConclusionThese results contrast with the predictions of a static normative perspective, but they are consistent with the multiple equilibrium theory, which predicts that divorce risks will decline in tandem with the embrace of more gender similarity in couple arrangements. Thus, evidence suggests that as societies evolve toward greater gender similarity in the division of paid and unpaid work, marital stability will likely improve.ImplicationsPreventive intervention approaches promoting new forms of organization in the division of work between partners may be useful in the quest for improved marital relations and well‐being.
Varieties of Economization in Competition Policy : Institutional Change in German and American Antitrust, 1960–2000
This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its permissiveness toward economic concentration in the last few decades. While the German political economy had moved to a stronger antitrust regime after 1945 and stuck to it even after the economic governance shifts of the 1980s, the traditional antitrust champion, the United States, has shed considerable parts of its basic governance toolkit against anticompetitive conduct since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of institutional change driven by bureaucratic and professional elites, the paper claims that different pathways of professional ideas in competition policy can account for the cross-country differences. In the 1960s and early 1970s, movements to strengthen competition policy enforcement emerged in both countries. While German as well as American professionals reacted to the seemingly increasing encroachment of societal concerns into antitrust with economized notions of the policies' goals, they did so in fundamentally different ways. Whereas US professionals proposed an effect-based approach in which consumer welfare and gains in efficiency may justify less competition, the more strongly law-based profession in Germany to a degree strengthened a form-based approach aiming at the preservation of competitive market structures. Such extrapolitical pathways of ideas, we argue, provide important guidelines for the implementation of competition policy by administrations and courts, whose decisions can have a far-reaching impact on industries and political economies as a whole.
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Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Prairie as a Land of Hope; 2. From the Irish Island; 3. Auswanderers; 4. Needed: Laborers; 5. Saving ""This Dark Valley""; 6. A Land without a Sabbath; 7. Whiskey and Lager Bier; 8. The Politicians; Epilogue; Sources; Index; Back Cover
Japanese, German, and American Global Business Leadership: Perceptions of Saudi and Expatriate Executives
In: Journal of transnational management development, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 37-57
ISSN: 1528-7009