Childhood as a Resource and Laboratory for the Self-Project

Autor/inn/en	Buhler-Niederberger, Doris; Konig, Alexandra
Titel	Childhood as a Resource and Laboratory for the Self-Project
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 18 (2011) 2, S.180-195 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568210391490
Schlagwörter	Children; Biographies; Context Effect; Time Perspective; Occupational Aspiration; Decision Making; Laboratories; Social Class; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Zeitbezug; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Laboratory; Laboratorium; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	The biographies of individuals in today's societies are characterized by the need to exert effort and make decisions in planning one's life course. A "self-project" has to be worked out both retrospectively and prospectively; childhood becomes important as a resource and a laboratory for the self-project. This empirical study analyses how the occupational choices of young people are connected with their occupational aspirations as a child. Children's aspirations prove to be class-sensitive. Studying the importance of childhood in the self-project thus makes it possible to consider children's agency in the interconnection of class and generational categories. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure, and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10