SUBJECTIVE ATTENDANTS OF UNIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN GERMANY

The article is concentrated on negative aspects of quality of life, ma inly anomie. Anemic attitudes have been thematized since the beginning of sociological analysis as phenomena accompanying rapid social chang e and economic crises. It is shown to what extent the processes of uni fication and transformation in Germany after 1990 are accompanied by a fragile perceived quality of life. That such a problematic has become virulent at the beginning of the nineteen-nineties indicates the fact that the unification of Germany and the transformation process of the former socialist states are undoubtedly part of the great rapid socie tal changes of the past decades.