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Negative Aspects Of Individualization Of The Youth

Summary/Abstract: Negative Aspects Of Individualization Of The Youth. The development of violence and drug addictions as a social phenomenon cannot be explained by monocausal or linear processes, nor if we consider every fact in its interactional and structural context. From this fact the frequent theoretical helplessness, observable in attempts to explain the etiology of the growth of criminality and other so-called social-pathological phenomena, comes out. These phenomena are directly connected with the process of individualization of the youth. The original sociological concept of individualization as the phase of lifelong process of socialization has changed and often begins to be understood as the process of obtaining independence characterized by a special way of life, effort to differ and distinguish oneself from others and seeking self identity, as well as by the process conditioning mostly the origin of authenticity and uniqueness of the individual autonomous behaviour. This process is accompanied by loss of traditional securities, a state of uncertainty, but simultaneously, by the growth of self-confidence, disorientation in plurality of values and often controversial norms. It is accompanied by an increasing occurrence of the crisis of identity the way out of which is considered a self-assertion as central element of identity development with a function to secure minimally the present status, social advancement or at least social inclusion. It is also accompanied by disorganization, differentiation and isolation and consequently by a greater tendency to do violence (in some situations). Where the social feeling begins to weaken, there is no commitment to consider the consequences of one’s own behaviour for others. Thus there grows indifference, a threshold of sensitiveness to violence lowers and cases in which the youth chooses the way of violence increase. Finally, the author calls for greater concerns to the problem of relativeness of deviant behaviour, a part of which is also the violence.

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