◎ Contents Part 1 Theoretical Backgrounds 1. The Role of Individualization Theory in adolescent Socialization 2. Childhood Between Individualization and Institutionalization 3. Health Impairments in Adolescence : The Biopsychosocial "Costs" of Modern Life-Style Part 2 Individualization and Politics 4. Youth and Politics : Destabilization of Political Orientations 5. The Syndreome of Right-Wing Extremism Among School Children - An East-West Comparison 6. Are Girls less Political Than Boys? Research Strategies and Concepts for Gender Studies on 9 to 12-Years-Olds Part 3 Individualization and Relationship 7. Individualized Life Plans and Concepts of Partnership During Adolescence 8. "Kids'-Stuff Boys" and "Stuck-Up Little Madams;" 13-to 16-Year-Olds in School and Peer Group 9. Sexual Abuse in Childhood : Toward an Individual or Institutionalized Solution? Part 4 Individualization and Education 10. Educational Perspectives and psychosocial Problems of Ease German Adolescents 11. Preschool Individualization : From an Authoritarian to a Consensus Mode of Motive Coordination 12. Human Captial Theory and the Individualization Theorem Part 5 Individualization and Leisue 13. Individualization and Youth Fashions 14. Adolescent Consumption : Demonstration 15. Sport and Social Integration During Adolescence Part 6 Individualization Mass Media 16. Individualization Processes in the Media Society 17. The "Mediatization" of Childhood : Between Consumer Culture and Individuality