Social Structure and Personality Development: The Individual as a Productive Processor of RealitySocialisation is here understood as the process of the emergence, formation and development of personality in dependence on and interaction with the human organism on the one hand and the social and material environment on the other hand. In this thoughtful book, Klaus Hurrelmann analyses the concepts of human development underlying the different sociological and psychological theories of personality development that he presents and compares. He then proposes his own concept of socialisation: the individual as a productive processor of internal and external reality. He goes on to discuss the organised societal contexts of socialisation (such as schools) and the family and other informal settings; and to review research on the relation between living conditions, risk factors in stress, psychosocial disorders and strategies for prevention and intervention. A wide readership will welcome this comprehensive view of the relationship between social structure and personality. |
Contents
systems theory action theory | 23 |
The individual as a productive processor | 37 |
Societal contexts of personality development | 93 |
Successful and unsuccessful socialization | 104 |
147 | |
159 | |
162 | |
Other editions - View all
Social Structure and Personality Development: The Individual as a Productive ... Klaus Hurrelmann No preview available - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
abilities according action competences activity actual adolescence adults analysis approaches areas assumptions attempt basic become changes chapter child cognitive communication complex concept construction contexts continuity coping course cultural demands determine developmental deviant differentiated direct educational effects environment example expectations experiences external reality factors fields findings formation forms function future given goal groups hand historical human ideas identity important increasing individual influence institutions interaction internal interpretation intervention lead learning living conditions means measures ment methodological methods necessary needs object occupational occur organism orientations parents particular personality development phases position possible potential prevention problem behavior procedures productive Proposition psychological reality recent reciprocal regarded relations relationships relevant requires result role self-concept significance situations social and material social structure socialization theory society sociological specific stages status strategies stress studies term theoretical tion understood various vocational