Ansätze kritischer Sozialer Arbeit: Biografie unter Druck! - Bewältigung von Anforderungen und Arbeit als Sozialisationsinstanz der Zweiten Moderne

In the organizer's words:

Format: Impulse lecture & practical application using fictitious cases

How do we experience the lifelong process of socialization today - growing into a rapidly changing society? Socialization as a lifelong socialization process in which the personality develops in a social environment. How is socialization viewed in terms of the mediation of subject and society and expressed in the concept of biography?

In the Second Modern Age, social conditions are changing fundamentally: traditional patterns of life are becoming less binding, biographical trajectories are becoming more fragile and social inequalities are increasing in new forms. Under these conditions, socialization no longer just means growing into stable social structures, but is increasingly becoming a process of actively coping with uncertainty, contradictions and social demands.
This extends to the workplace and is reflected, among other things, in changing work biographies and coping requirements.

In this event, after a brief introduction to the socialization theory of the 2nd modern age (according to Böhnisch, Lenz & Schröer 2009, among others), we want to engage in a joint exchange. The focus will be on the participants' very personal experiences in the world of work.

Impulses for the exchange:
- How do social conditions affect our concrete actions in the field of work - and vice versa?
- Which work demands become challenging or excessive in terms of coping?
- Which coping tasks can be found in practice across all fields of work?

- What strategies help us to cope with these tasks, both as individuals and as a collective?

- Attempts at analysis between theory and (fictitious) cases from practice

Organizer: Working Group Critical Social Work Bremen

Text: Böhnisch, Lothar; Lenz, Karl; Schröer, Wolfgang (2009). Socialization and coping. An introduction to the socialization theory of the second modern age, Weinheim: Juventa Verlag

With the kind support of the Bremen Chamber of Employees