European Union's Crisis and Qualitative Methods

Abstract

The crisis now occurring in European Union has substantial implications for the continued prosperity and stability of Europe. Busch, Hermann, Hinrichs, and Schulten present three possible scenarios explaining how the EU crisis could resolve. First, EU could muddle through managing issues somehow on a day to day basis. Second, the Eurozone could collapse. Third, constitutional reform of the EU could occur allowing positive economic initiatives to resolve the recession conditions in the present crisis. The methodology used is a narrative technique involving the creation of slide shows about a television personality, Thore Scholermann. German television has recently featured Scholermann has host of a talent program, The Voice of Germany. A lifestyle news program, TAFF, has had Scholermann as a co-host. He has appeared on Ich Liebe Deutschland, a quiz program. He has competed on TV Total Diving, where personalities compete in sports. Perhaps Scholermann is most famous for his Christian Mann role in the soap opera Verbotene Leibe. Appearing on German television in these five type of programs has made Scholermann significant in educating Germans about the present EU crisis. Narrative slide show involves the researcher with a constructionism about present day Europe. The researcher is then able to upload the slide show in video format to YouTube and observe how the slide show interacts with society. Various qualitative methods techniques are involved including narrative, social action research, the narrative authority of a subaltern, the social construction of knowledge, and the deconstruction of knowledge. The results produced by qualitative analysis emphasizing data that indicates these slide show narratives have substantial global interest. The likely scenario presented explains the EU has problems resolving conflicts between regionalism and globalism. While the difficulties EU confronts are many, A politics of entschuldigen sie is suggested from the name Scholermann. The countries with the prosperous economies rise to an apology and continue helping weaker member states in EU. Gains from globalism become popularly realized to be greater when regional cooperation continues Analyzing Scholermann's television role leads to the conclusion that learning experience can allow EU to continue muddling through as regional and global gains occur.