Developmental tasks in adolescence makes an exciting contribution to the field by applying socialization theory to four major developmental tasks of life: Qualifying, Bonding, Consumption and Participation, arguing that if the tasks in these areas are mastered, then personal individuation and social integration can take place, a prerequisite for the formation of self-identity.

Klaus Hurrelmann is Senior Professor of Public Health and Education at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. He established the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Youth and was also co-founder of the Centre for Childhood and Youth Research in Bielefeld.

Gudrun Quenzel is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Education in Vorarlberg. Her research focuses on youth and socialisation as well as education poverty, education inequality, and health. She serves together with Klaus Hurrelmann on the management team of the German Shell Youth Studies.

Preface

Chapter 1: Adolescence as a Life Stage

Chapter 2: Personality Development in Adolescence

Chapter 3: Adolescents as Productive Processors of Reality

Chapter 4: The Developmental Task Qualifying

Chapter 5: The Developmental Task Bonding

Chapter 6: The Developmental Task Consumption

Chapter 7: The Developmental Task Participation

Chapter 8: Problems in Coping with Developmental Tasks

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