Westernization

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The term Westernization ( English Westernization ) refers to the transfer of ideas and values, especially from the United States in the post-war societies in West Germany, France and Italy from 1945 to 1970, making it an element of Westernization .

Westernization is tightly coupled and also delineate the concept of Americanization , of the acquisition of elements of the lifestyle of the United States as the " Coca-Colisierung " the " McDonaldization " or wearing jeans in the Western European societies after the end of World War II referred .

According to Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, the expression of western values ​​did not take place simply as an adoption of American ideas, but as a reciprocal process, a “cycle of political, socio-economic and cultural concepts of order”.

The transatlantic binding of values ​​particularly affected the Federal Republic of Germany , often due to remigrants, the press and journalism , trade unions and educational institutions, sciences such as sociology and many other areas of public life. This gradually led to a western orientation, which of course was often questioned by social forces, especially in the context of the student movement of 1968 . After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the western orientation of values ​​and norms gave rise to internal social debates.

The term “Westernization” is also used for the adoption of Western customs (for example musical practices) in other, mainly communist or Islamic cultures (outside the “West”, but also within Western societies).

literature

  • Julia Angster: Consensus Capitalism and Social Democracy. The westernization of the SPD and DGB. Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56676-8
  • Anselm Doering-Manteuffel : How western are the Germans? Americanization and Westernization in the 20th Century. Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-525-340176
  • Manfred Görtemaker : History of the Federal Republic of Germany. From the foundation to the present. Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-596-16043X
  • Michael J. Hogan: The Marshall Plan. America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Europe. 1947-1952. Cambridge 1987.
  • Ulrich Herbert (Hrsg.): Change processes in West Germany. Burden , integration, liberalization, 1945 to 1980. Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3-892-446091
  • Bruno Nettl : The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine Issues and Concepts (= Syncretism, Westernization, Modernization ). University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1983, ISBN 0-252-01039-6 , pp. 353 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anselm Doering-Manteuffel : Americanization and Westernization , Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , January 18, 2011.
  2. ^ Bruno Nettl: The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. 1983, p. 190 f. (on Westernization of musical life ).
  3. ^ Bruno Nettl: The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. 1983, pp. 347-349.