„Institutionelle Vollständigkeit“ als Dimension kultureller Sicherheit. Das Beispiel der Lausitzer Sorben

Abstract

“Institutional Completeness” as a Dimension of Cultural Security. The Example of the Lusatian Sorbs.

The notion of institutional completeness developed by French Canadian sociologist Raymond Breton is a conceptual tool devised to assess the institutional dimensions of the social integration of individuals belonging to minority ethno-linguistic groups. Using this notion as a basis, this article proposes a neo-institutional analysis of the Sorbs of Lusatia. It takes a closer look at Sorbian community-based institutions and organizations as well as formal and informal institutional constraints faced by this small Slavic people since the German unification of 1871.