Young People in School and Violence - East Berlin 1991

Reasons for and dealing with violence in a time of extreme social changes. Topics: Assessment of social changes since German-German unification in the areas travel opportunities, occupational training and further education, representation of political interests, school, freedom of speech, organization of leisure time, consumer opportunities, proportion of foreigners; personal concern in view of unemployment, neofascism and right-wing radicalism, changes in school, lack of training positions, violence, drugs, AIDS, crime, danger of war, environmental problems, immigration of foreigners, political development in Eastern Europe; prerequisites for a successful life: money, external public image, knowledge, connections, principles, party membership, diligence; attitude to politically extreme expressions (scale); preferred dealing with violence; personal reaction at violence against foreigners; violence in daily life; personal enemies; possibilities of protecting oneself against violence (scale); reasons for violent demonstrations of young people (scale); acceptance of the physically handicapped, foreigners, homosexuals, lesbians, extreme political groupings, those with other views in various areas of life; means to reduce or prevent violence in daily life (scale); violence as means to maintain law and order and resolve conflict; goals in life (scale); experience as victim of violence; place and type of violence used.