Winners and losers: transformation processes and their consequences for adolescents

Transformation processes (e.g. transition to plurality, diversification of lifestyles, individualization, changing values, exponential increase of new options and new constraints on selecting and deciding) lead to changing developmental contexts for adolescents. This article considers individual con...

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Published inSocial Science Information Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 131 - 154
Main Author Steinke, Ines
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, etc SAGE Publications 01.03.2000
Sage Publications, etc
Subjects
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Ambition
Anxiety
Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
Child development
Coping
Identity
Life Stage Transitions
Qualitative analysis
Social change
Social networks
Typology
Values
Development
Qualitative methods
Transformation
Resources
Adolescents
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Summary:Transformation processes (e.g. transition to plurality, diversification of lifestyles, individualization, changing values, exponential increase of new options and new constraints on selecting and deciding) lead to changing developmental contexts for adolescents. This article considers individual consequences and subjective meanings of transformation processes for adolescents. A qualitative study conducted in East Berlin shows that three types of adolescents can be distinguished (winners, winners and losers, losers) from the ways they cope with transformation and its consequences. Each type can be regarded as a coherent system consisting of specific life-goals, values, anxieties, kinds of struggle for recognition, identities, characteristic social networks, personal and social resources. Differences in these dimensions are shown for the three types.
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ISSN:0539-0184
1461-7412
DOI:10.1177/053901800039001008