Socialisation During the Life Course

169 Pages·2017·1.25 MB·English

by  Klaus Hurrelmann, Ullrich Bauer

Socialisation
During the Life
Course
This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological,
educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human
beings as ‘subjects’ – experiencing, thinking and acting individuals – confront
the material, social and cultural ‘objects’ of their environment and sustain their
position. The authors provide an overview of the most important theories of
socialisation, then integrate these using the Productive Processing of Reality
(PPR) model. This novel approach is applied to a life course analysis, examining
developmental tasks and the challenges of productive processing of the internal
and external reality at various stages of development. The book also considers
contexts, addressing the inequalities between different socio-economic and
ethnic groups and genders, to consider how humans – with their genetic
dispositions and their individual instincts and needs – solve the task of coping
with the requirements of society, culture and economy while at the same time
safeguarding their status as unique individuals.
It is core reading for advanced students on socialisation modules in
developmental or social psychology and educational sciences and is add ition -
ally of value for the professional training of sociologists, teachers and social
workers. It is also relevant for all those interested in elementary questions of
how the interaction between the society and the individual works; how human
beings deal not only with themselves, but also with their social and physical
environment, and how they shape it in their own way.
Klaus Hurrelmann is Senior Professor of Public Health and Education at
Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He previously served as Professor of
Socialisation at Bielefeld University in Germany.
Ullrich Baueris Professor of Socialisation Research at the Faculty of Educational
Science and Head of the Center for Prevention in Childhood and Adolescence
at Bielefeld University in Germany.

Socialisation
During the Life
Course
Klaus Hurrelmann
and Ullrich Bauer
First published 2018
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Hurrelmann, Klaus, author. | Bauer, Ullrich, author.
Socialisation during the life course/Klaus Hurrelmann and Ullrich Bauer.
Other titles: Socialization during the life course
Description: New York: Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017034755| ISBN 9781138502178 (hb: alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781138502185 (pb: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315144801 (eb)
Subjects: LCSH: Socialisation. | Life cycle, Human.
Classification: LCC HM686 .H87 2018 | DDC 303.3/2–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034755
ISBN: 978-1-138-50217-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-50218-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-14480-1 (ebk)
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Contents
About the authors ix
Chapter 1 The understanding of socialisation 1
Chapter 2 Socialisation as productive processing
of reality 19
Chapter 3 Coping with developmental tasks 33
Chapter 4 Productive processing of reality during
the life course 53
Chapter 5 Socialisation in the individual life stages 75
Chapter 6 Contexts of socialisation in the life course 97
Chapter 7 Inequality of socialisation during the life
course 117
Chapter 8 Conclusion and outlook 143
Bibliography 147
Index 153
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About the
authors
Klaus Hurrelmann is Senior Professor of Public Health and
Education at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.
He studied sociology, psychology and education in Berkeley
(USA), Freiburg and Muenster (Germany). In 1975, he took on
a professorship for empirical social research at the University
of Essen. In 1980, he transferred to Bielefeld University as
Professor of Socialisation. With his colleagues, he established
the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Prevention and Inter-
vention in Childhood and Youth (SFB 227, financed by the
German Research Association) and served as its director from
1986 to 1998. He was also co-founder of the Centre for
Childhood and Youth Research in Bielefeld. In 1994, he joined
the newly established Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld
University and held the office of Founding Dean for almost
10 years. He worked in the area of prevention and health
promotion and initiated international research projects. On
behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO), he served as
the Director of the Collaborating Research Centre for Health in
Adolescence until 2007 and headed the German section of the
research project Health Behaviour in School Children (HBSC).
He was a Visiting Professor of Sociology of Education at New
York University in 1990 and of Public Health and Education at
UCLA in 1999. In 2009, Klaus Hurrelmann joined the Hertie
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