Die Form des Kindes: Kind, Familie, Gesellschaftsstruktur - Softcover

9783958323902: Die Form des Kindes: Kind, Familie, Gesellschaftsstruktur

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ISBN 10: 3958323901 ISBN 13: 9783958323902

The shape of the child is a contribution to the sociological systems theory of the family. Starting point of the investigation are the conditions of family communication proposed by Niklas Luhmann: the family includes its members as full persons as the only system of society. Anything that concerns this beyond the family, whether as a voter, as a patient, as a consumer, as an art connoisseur, etc., can make the family their business. This makes it strikingly stand out from the inclusion conditions of other social areas, which in modern society always rely only highly selectively on its participants. Here a connection between inclusion relations of the family and society structure suggests, which forms the theoretical bracket of the investigation. She addresses the question of how the family (or their ancient European equivalent, the family household) socially considers the child, his body, his psyche and his (in the broadest sense) career. Since all three horizons are dimensioned by social conditions, the family must in turn build and maintain structures to cope with these unfolding horizons of their personnel. Accordingly, the conditions of growing up in the stratified society of the Middle Ages are hardly comparable to those of modern society.

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