Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1674
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Junctions, pathways and turning points in biographical genesis of right-wing extremism
Authors: Gabriel, Thomas
Keller, Samuel
DOI: 10.21256/zhaw-1674
Published in: Social Work & Society
Volume(Issue): 12
Issue: 1
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
ISSN: 1613-8953
Language: English
Subjects: Right-wing extremism; Biographical research; Turning point; Care leaver; Case analysis
Subject (DDC): 303: Social processes
320: Politics
Abstract: This article adopts the hypothesis that the primary organizational structures of the family and immediate social environment play a decisive role in explaining the genesis of racist attitudes and behavioral disposition. Processes of upbringing and socialization are always to be un-derstood as products of active subjective interaction and thus to be reconstructed as such within the framework of social work research. In the context of the research this article is based on, it was of special interest to scrutinize the biographies of young people by analyzing junctions and relevant turning points on their pathways to right-wing extremism. This bio-graphical junctions and turning points are seen as timeframes where agency and biographical meaning gets evident and can be re-constructed. This method is supported by more recent findings which unanimously warn against relying on the results of socialization while neglecting that the acquisition of social disposition is a process which is highly individual in characteristic. To make the model of junctions and turning points understandable, the second half of this article discusses a generic case of a young man and his subjectively relevant meanings of becoming and being right-wing extremist.
URI: https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/386
https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2782
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Departement: Social Work
Organisational Unit: Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family (IKJF)
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Gabriel, T., & Keller, S. (2014). Junctions, pathways and turning points in biographical genesis of right-wing extremism. Social Work & Society, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1674
Gabriel, T. and Keller, S. (2014) ‘Junctions, pathways and turning points in biographical genesis of right-wing extremism’, Social Work & Society, 12(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1674.
T. Gabriel and S. Keller, “Junctions, pathways and turning points in biographical genesis of right-wing extremism,” Social Work & Society, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1674.
GABRIEL, Thomas und Samuel KELLER, 2014. Junctions, pathways and turning points in biographical genesis of right-wing extremism. Social Work & Society [online]. 2014. Bd. 12, Nr. 1. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-1674. Verfügbar unter: https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/386
Gabriel, Thomas, and Samuel Keller. 2014. “Junctions, Pathways and Turning Points in Biographical Genesis of Right-Wing Extremism.” Social Work & Society 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1674.
Gabriel, Thomas, and Samuel Keller. “Junctions, Pathways and Turning Points in Biographical Genesis of Right-Wing Extremism.” Social Work & Society, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1674.


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