Club dairy

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People are pejoratively referred to as clubmen for whom membership and participation in one or more clubs is extremely important. Derived from this, club dairy denotes an attitude in which exaggerated value is attached to the activity in a club and the work of clubs. Often, bureaucracy within an association is criticized if too much emphasis is placed on formalities instead of the association's work in accordance with the association's statutes (CH: statutes ).

origin

Physiological mechanisms of social conditioning for success can be seen as the reason for club dairy farming. The club dairy in the broader sense, d. H. The involvement in groups and associations and the classification in hierarchical group structures has an influence on the social status . For example, a person who is not highly regarded in professional life could experience social success in a sports club that he or she does not achieve in everyday working life. A social success here also has an impact on the ranking position in all other groups. Vereinsmeier are considered "typically German".

GDR

The political leadership in the Soviet Zone and GDR was suspicious of private associations . The tasks of the associations should be covered by government agencies and mass organizations . With the slogan Vereinsmeierei were the part of the SED ones occupied, nevertheless organized in the form of private clubs.

See also

Wiktionary: Vereinsmeier  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

literature

  • Ilia Faye: Club dairy ... and other filth. Heimdall-Verlag, Rheine 2009, ISBN 978-3-939935-26-1 . (About group dynamics and the disintegration of basic social elements of our society)
  • Ursula Sprecher & Andi Cortellini: Hobby Buddies - Freizeitfreunde , Kehrer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86828-433-1 (photo book with 60 staged pictures of Swiss clubs)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Club dairy, the. In: DWDS.
  2. ↑ Bernhart Ruso, Klaus Atzwanger: Motives for hierarchical social behavior - club dairy as an evolutionary psychological relic. In: H. Heller (Ed.): Hierarchies. Vehling Verlag, Graz 2005. (online ; PDF; 358 kB)
  3. ^ Hermann Bausinger: Typically German: How German are the Germans? Issue 5, 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59978-1 , p. 71. (online)
  4. ^ Isolde Dietrich: hammer, circle, garden fence: The policy of the SED towards the allotment gardeners. 2003, ISBN 3-8311-4660-8 , p. 49 .