Education and Course of Life concentrates on a historical and systemical perspective on the human course of life. This includes childhood, teenage year, adulthood, aging and their characteristic way of life, developmental stages, turning points, curricular stages and patterns of identity. This ‘course of life’ is seen as result of a historical process. It includes processes of modernization. Modernization demands a higher effort and distinction ofbiographical decisions and reflexion, educational processes, daily life and routines and future development. This is why the module “Education and Course of Life” concentrates on social research based on identifying and connecting a biographical and a life course perspective.
Additionally macrosociological issues concerning the course of life and educational sociology are a subject of discussion at the institute. This includes the following topis: sociology of population, micro social questions concerning the formation and development of identity.
