Defense and Recognition in the Climate Crisis: How to Communicate about Truths, Facts and Opinions
Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- What Do You Think About Climate Change? -- What Does a Look into Social Reality Show? -- What Guides the View into Social Reality? -- How New Perspectives are Opened Up by Informative Results -- What Goals are Pursued with This Book -- How This Book is Structured -- Part I The Psychological and Socially Conditioned Defence -- 2 Dynamics, Forms, and Consequences of Defense. An Overview -- Why it Makes Sense to Differentiate Between the Psychological and the Social Defense -- Not Wanting to Perceive as Protection and Escape from Crises -- Why Climate Change Hurts -- How Injuries Arise-The Biographical Reasons and the Psychological Consequences -- How Injuries Steer Defense -- How Disparagement Arises Through Defense -- Offense, Devaluation and Psychological Defense as a Value Problem -- Forms of Defence and Internal Contradictions -- Defense Against Suspicion of Malformations or Unwelcome Demands -- Defense Due to Non-Understanding and the Expectation of Security -- 3 Researching Social Reality. An Empirical Study -- The Basic Concept and the Four Phases -- The Objective -- The Occasion and the Background -- The Selection of Interviewees -- Trust and the Feedback of the Interview Partners -- The Scientific Approach and its Requirements -- The Methods Used and Ethical Attitudes in the Theory-Practice Process -- The Evaluation of the Data Under the Aspect of the Psychically and Socially Conditioned Defense -- "Skepticism" as an Attitude and a Rational Motive for Defense -- Trends That Can be Read from the Evaluation in Terms of Psychological and Social Defense -- Values, Images of Humanity and Ideas of the Future -- To the Values -- To the Future Plans -- Assessment of Science, Politics, Industry, Journalism and Social Media.