Gabriel
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Parenting and Rightwing-Extremism – Analysis of the Biographical Genesis of Racism Among Young People | ||||||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Familienerziehung und Rechtsextremismus – Analyse der biographischen Genese rassistischer Deutungs- und Handlungsmuster junger Menschen |
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Although in scientific circles, there is almost unanimous agreement that rightwing-extremism and xenophobia in Western European democracies are not primarily youth-related phenomena this is how the problem is perceived by the majority of the public, as well as in some professional discourses. In making the phenomenology of adolescent criminal activity the central issue, one neglects to consider that on the level of racist patterns of interpretation, com-parable attitudes can be found among both adolescents and adults. This study adopts the hypothesis that the primary organizational structures of the family and immediate social environment play a decisive role in explaining the genesis of racist attitudes and behavioral disposition. Yet, the processes of parenting and socialization are always to be understood as products of active subjective interaction and thus to be reconstructed as such within the framework of this research project. It is the intention to determine the influencing factors leading to the development of racist attitudes and behavioral disposition among young people in an interactive and multi-generative dimension. Since these influences can reinforce, relativize or cancel out each other, it appears that the only way to handle these issues is by a highly intensive and detailed analysis of selective biographical processes. In this context, it will be of special interest to uncover the biographies' "development paths" and "junctions", which would enable one to hermeneutically reconstruct/understand and analyze the genesis and intensification of racist interpretation and be-havior patterns. This method is supported by more recent findings which unanimously warn against relying on the results of socialization while neglecting that the acquisition of social disposition is a process which is highly individual in character. | ||||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Racism, Parenting, Family, Xenophobia, Right-wing Extremism. | ||||||
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Apr 2004 to Mar 2007 |