Political orientations of adolescents and young adults in the interplay between family and peers

该项目以一种新的方式关注青春期和成年早期的政治社会化进程。它与家庭和同龄人一起，在他们的相互关系中审视年轻人生活的中心背景，作为社会建设政治取向和做法的经验空间和谈判场所。在现代晚期社会日常文化日益两极分化和政治化的社会学诊断的背景下，该研究项目首先致力于确定广泛的青少年和年轻人的政治取向和做法，以及这些取向和做法是如何在传记中嵌入的。其次，它打算系统地审查家庭和与同伴相关的经验空间，它们提供了什么意义和解释，以及相互关系--也由媒体传达--它们对于塑造相互关联的个人和集体政治方向和做法的重要性。第三，为了找出青春期和成年期青少年在这些关系的加工过程中的社会差异，本研究分析了这些政治取向与社会环境的关系。理论上，本研究以一个广泛的政治学概念为基础，结合传记、社会化和政治文化研究中的社会建构主义、行为学和关系学概念。在方法上，本研究通过对青少年或年轻人的传记访谈，与家庭和选定的青少年的小组讨论，以及与他们和他们的同龄人在具有不同政治取向的正式或非正式小组中的小组讨论，来探索这些问题。对定性数据的分析是基于文献的方法，以解释政治取向和实践在它们之间的相互依存和社会文化嵌入。通过研究问题，该研究项目以创新的方式结合了青年传记、家庭和同伴研究领域。与之前的研究结果不同，在数字转型、日冕大流行和欧洲当前战争局势导致的政治话语越来越多地侵入日常文化的背景下，这项研究为关于不同社会化背景的重要性的辩论提供了新的和深刻的见解，不同社会化背景的相互关联和社会文化嵌入对青少年和年轻人截然不同的政治取向和社会秩序概念的形成具有新的和深刻的见解。

The project focuses in a new manner on the political socialization processes in adolescence and early adulthood. With the family and the peers it takes a look at central contexts of young people's lives in their mutual relationships as spaces of experience and arenas of negotiation for the social construction of political orientations and practices. Against the background of current sociological diagnoses of the increasing polarisation and politicisation of everyday culture in late modern societies, firstly the research project pursues to identify a broad range of adolescent’s and young adults’ political orientations and practices and how these are biographically embedded. Secondly it intends to systematically examine the familial and peer-related spaces of experience, what meaning and interpretations they offer, as well as the interactional relationships - also conveyed by the media - in their importance for shaping individual and collective political orientations and practices in their interrelatedness. Thirdly, in order to identify social differences in the processing of these relationships in adolescence and young adulthood, the study analyses the relations between these political orientations and social milieu contexts.Theoretically, the research project with a qualitative approach is based on a broad concept of the political and connects to social constructivist, praxeological and relational concepts in biographical, socialisation, and political culture research. Methodologically, the study explores the issues with the use of biographical interviews with adolescents or young adults, group discussions with the families and the selected adolescents, and group discussions with them and their peers in formal or informal groups with varying political orientations. The analyses of the qualitative data is based on the Documentary Method to interpret political orientations and practices in their interdependencies and sociocultural embedding. With its research question, the research project combines the fields of youth biography, family and peer research in an innovative way.In contrast to previous research findings and against the background of the increasing intrusion of political discourses into everyday culture which is emerging as a result of the digital transformation, the consequences of the Corona pandemic and current war situation in Europe, the study contributes new and profound insights to the debate on the importance of different socialisation contexts in their interrelatedness and socio-cultural embedding for the formation of adolescents’ and young adults’ contrasting political orientations and social order concepts.