The Autonomous Child: Theorizing Socialization: 0 (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research) - Softcover

Frønes, Ivar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319250981 ISBN 13: 9783319250984

Publisher: Springer, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319250981
• ISBN 13: 9783319250984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128