"May be I'll Need a Pair of Levis Before Junior High?" Child to Youth Trajectories and Anticipatory Socialization

Autor/in	Waerdahl, Randi
Titel	"May be I'll Need a Pair of Levis Before Junior High?" Child to Youth Trajectories and Anticipatory Socialization
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 12 (2005) 2, S.201-219 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568205051904
Schlagwörter	Socialization; Reference Groups; Foreign Countries; Consumer Economics; Early Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socialisation; Sozialisation; Reference group; Bezugsgruppe; Ausland; Konsumökonomie
Abstract	Changing schools at the age of 12 also represents a change in social age identity. Children prepare for this change of age identity in different ways, and their strategies vary across sociocultural contexts as well as between individuals. In this article, some of these strategies are explored through ethnographic observation and interviews with Norwegian 12-year-olds preparing and anticipating a change of school, making use of Robert Mertons concept of anticipatory socialization. Mertons concept describes the building of personal abilities, alienation from ones former group and adaptation to new norms as social processes identifying change of social reference group. These terms are employed here to identify social processes initiating childrens orientation to a youth identity. The functions that material possessions fulfil are related to the ability to symbolically communicate both categorically and self-expressively a growing normative awareness and a sense of value. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10