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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence 10/2017

09-09-2017 | Editorial

Social Inequality, Life Course Transitions, and Adolescent Development: Introduction to the Special Issue

Auteurs: Marlis Buchmann, Annekatrin Steinhoff

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 10/2017

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Abstract

Conceptualizing adolescent development within a life course framework that links the perspectives on social inequality and early life course transitions has largely been absent from previous research. Such a conceptual model is needed, however, in order to understand how the individual development of agentic capacities and the opportunities and constraints inherent in the social contexts of growing up interact and jointly affect young people’s trajectories across the adolescent life stage. We present the corner stones of the conceptual “trident” of social inequality, life course transitions, and adolescent development and identify three major themes the eleven contributions to this special issue address within this conceptual framework: social and individual prerequisites and consequences of coping with life course transitions; intergenerational transmission belts of social inequality; socialization of agency in and outside the family home. These three themes exemplify the great analytical potential inherent in this framework.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Social Inequality, Life Course Transitions, and Adolescent Development: Introduction to the Special Issue
Auteurs
Marlis Buchmann
Annekatrin Steinhoff
Publicatiedatum
09-09-2017
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 10/2017
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0740-2

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