Overview
- Examines and brings together the various disciplines and perspectives on socialization in the life course approach
- Presents an analysis of socialization that advance our understanding of the process
- Includes and analysis of socialization in the post-industrial knowledge-based societies
- Gives references to literature, as well as Internet sources, to make further reading easy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Socialization in the Social Sciences
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Front Matter
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The Knowledge Societies and the Structuring of Socialization and the Life Course
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Keywords
- SOCIALIZATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Socialization and life course analyses
- Socialization as biological-social interaction
- Socialization in anthropological perspectives
- Socialization in psychological perspectives
- THE STRUCTURING OF SOCIALIZATION
- The knowledge society and life phase dynamics
- Understanding socialization
- Understanding socialization; some concluding reflections
- childhood studies
About this book
The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. This book looks at the theorizing of socialization in sociology, anthropology, psychology, in the life course approach, and as the interplay of genetics and environmental factors. It analyses the dominant perspectives and viewpoints within each discipline and field, and shows how the various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. It argues that socialization does not represent a fixed trajectory into a static social order, and that different disciplines meet the challenges of complex developmental processes and changing environments in different ways. Socialization is a fundamental concept in sociology, but sociology has only to a limited degree sought to produce a coherent understanding of the processes of socialization, which has to encompass the interplay of societal, psychological and genetic factors. This book draws the threads together and, by doing so, offers a general framework for our understanding of the socialization process. At the centre of this process is the child as a subject, in an interplay with the patterns and significant others of the micro environment as well as with the macro-conditions of the modern knowledge based economies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ivar Frønes is a Norwegian sociologist.
He graduated with a mag.art. degree (PhD equivalent) in 1975, and took the dr.philos. degree in 1995. He was hired at the University of Oslo in 1986 and is now professor.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Autonomous Child
Book Subtitle: Theorizing Socialization
Authors: Ivar Frønes
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25100-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25098-4Published: 23 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25100-4Published: 14 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 119
Topics: Child Well-being, Developmental Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Childhood, Adolescence and Society