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Nature and Culture, Individual and Society: The Institutional Impact of Conceptual Antithesis in Theories of American Social Sciences on Adolescence
Kostas Spiridakis * spyridokostis@hotmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-5222-8822
University of Crete, School of Philosophy, Department of Philosophical and Social Studies, Rethimno, GREECE
Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2019, 3(1), 9-22 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0301.02009s
Online Published Date: 6 July 2019
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: symbolic control, adolescence, social sciences, psychology, sociology, social categories.
ABSTRACT:
This article presents a sociological analysis, dealing with the matter of how theories of social sciences about adolescence have contributed to the formation of adolescent behavior. In particular, we examine how adolescence as a social category was constituted and transformed along with the modification of social sciences’ (psychology’s and sociology’s mostly) relevant concepts in the USA, from the late 19th century until the early 21st century. Around socialization, two opposite theoretical foundations of human condition were reproduced, the “socio-cultural” and the “individual-natural”. The dominance of some theories on others was related to the institutional consolidation of various social control forms (e.g., symbolic control, surveillance) depending on the kind of behavior that is being rationalized, naturalized and legitimized. The historical reconstruction of three phases in the development of the social sciences’ field of symbolic control enables us to focus on the importance of a renewed naturalism in the explanation of adolescent behavior, from the 1980s onwards.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Kostas Spiridakis, PhD University of Crete, School of Philosophy, Department of Philosophical and Social Studies, Eirinis 17, Kalamaki Chania, 73100 Crete, GREECE.
E-mail: spyridokostis@hotmail.com.
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