Stefan Ruppert

This unique volume presents the results of a study of 200 German families over a period of 16 years from 1976 to 1992. This study--the findings of which yield a host of new insights into the dynamics of cross-generational personality and family development--is based on an ecopsychological framework comprising four levels of developmental analyses: * individual level--personality development, critical life events, and corresponding coping strategies; * dyadic relationships level--changes in parent-child relationships across time and development of marital relationships; * family relationship level--development of family climate and its impact on current dyadic relationships; and * contextual/ecological level--perceived changes in societal conditions, corresponding patterns of personality and coping strategies. The authors focus on the important ideas and keep methodological details to a minimum in the text. Technical issues having to do with data analysis, etc., are discussed in an appendix.

Stefan Ruppert untersucht den Kulturkampf, die vehementeste Auseinandersetzung zwischen Kirche und Staat im 19. Jahrhundert. Er geht dabei von der These aus, daß die religiösen Milieus in ihrer Bedeutung für die Rechtsgeschichte des 'modernen' neunzehnten Jahrhunderts unterschätzt werden. Hinter der vordergründigen Reaktion des Staates auf das vatikanische Konzil stand die Auseinandersetzung um den unbedingten Vorrang des Rechts. Der staatskirchenrechtliche Kompromiß bei der Beilegung des Kulturkampfs wurde dann in der Weimarer Verfassung bis heute geltendes Verfassungsrecht, blieb also, nicht zuletzt in Erinnerung an die Heftigkeit dieser Auseinandersetzung, auch bei der Formulierung des Grundgesetzes 1948/49 unberührt. Diese Untersuchung wurde mit der Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ausgezeichnet.

This unique volume presents the results of a study of 200 German families over a period of 16 years from 1976 to 1992. This study--the findings of which yield a host of new insights into the dynamics of cross-generational personality and family development--is based on an ecopsychological framework comprising four levels of developmental analyses: * individual level--personality development, critical life events, and corresponding coping strategies; * dyadic relationships level--changes in parent-child relationships across time and development of marital relationships; * family relationship level--development of family climate and its impact on current dyadic relationships; and * contextual/ecological level--perceived changes in societal conditions, corresponding patterns of personality and coping strategies. The authors focus on the important ideas and keep methodological details to a minimum in the text. Technical issues having to do with data analysis, etc., are discussed in an appendix.