Zwischen Traditionalisierung und Segmentierung : Identitätsformationen von "Singles" als biographische Konstruktionen jenseits dyadisch-intimer Lebensführung im Familienlebensalter

eng: The sociological literature discusses 'Single' as a pattern of life under the view of disintegration of traditional ties and the process of increasing 'individualization'. This study explores, how singles' identities can be seen as a fact for deinstitutionalization of...

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VerfasserIn: Kern, Jutta Ursula
Ort / Verlag / Datum:1997
Erscheinungsjahr:1997
Sprache:Deutsch
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Klassifikation:300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Zusammenfassung:eng: The sociological literature discusses 'Single' as a pattern of life under the view of disintegration of traditional ties and the process of increasing 'individualization'. This study explores, how singles' identities can be seen as a fact for deinstitutionalization of life- course patterns. The definition of the field tried to give regard to the various living arrangements of singles: Above all, singles are addressed as persons living without intimate dyadic relationships. In order to touch upon the question of possible alternative models of the life-course the sample was restricted to 35 to 55 years olds to cover a life-period, institutionalized as the 'family-phases'. Data was collected by the rule of living a durable single life. Through a biographical research approach, six cases where reconstructed extensively. Each represents for the life-pattern 'single' a different type of structure distinguished by structural conditions, biographical transformations and individual coping strategies. Living without an exclusively understood intimate relationship gives vent to different basic dimensions: 'own life', self- realization, refusal, individualism, autonomy or safeguarding. These structural types show, that the phenomenon of singles surely is located offside the institutionalized life-course regime, but it is recurrent to it in different - subjectively constructed - ways: Singles' identities may not be seen as intentionally produced counter-models to the institutionalized life-course patterns, but as subjective rearrangements, of institutionalized 'set pieces' between traditionalization and segmentation. Consequently the thesis of individualization is explanatory only in a very restrictive way but the analyzed case-structures may be seen as a sign for possible additional life-models in the future.
AC Nummer:AC01903345
Hierarchiestufe:Monografie
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