Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 244-259

Journal: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation = Journal for sociology of education and socialization

Volume number: 43

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 1436-1957

Publisher: Beltz Juventa

Abstract: 
This article addresses political socialization from a biographical perspective. The potential of biographical research is seen in analyzing the stratification of life-historical experiences in order to identify biographical dispositions for social and political (self-)localization processes and their connection with milieu-related or historically social opportunity structures. In this context, it is relevant that within the educational biographical research that focusses on education and socialization theories, two different paradigms have developed, which have implications for research on political socialization. The authors argue for a perspective based on socialization theory, which considers political socialization also as an interweaving of life-world and institutional educational experiences. This will be demonstrated by means of a biographical case study.

Harvard Citation style: Soremski, R. and Wiezorek, C. (2023) Political socialization from a biographical perspective, Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation : Journal for sociology of education and socialization, 43(3), pp. 244-259

APA Citation style: Soremski, R., & Wiezorek, C. (2023). Political socialization from a biographical perspective. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation : Journal for sociology of education and socialization. 43(3), 244-259.