ABSTRACT
The concept of socialisation is used in many academic disciplines to describe the personality development of human beings in permanent interaction with their physical and psychological disposition on the one hand and the social and ecological living conditions on the other. Although socialisation is seen as a sociological key concept tackling basic problems of ensuring social order (Bühler-Niederberger, 2016) the general framework refers to a more individual perspective of dispositions, competencies and personality development (Grusec and Hastings, 2016). This chapter starts with a discussion of everyday and the scientific understanding of socialisation. The term socialisation is one of the scholarly terms that are not only used in a great variety of academic disciplines but also in everyday life. Socialisation theory focuses on the tension between the individual and society. The earliest socialisation theorists were two sociologists. The German social philosopher Georg Simmel and the French sociologist Emile Durkheim are regarded as the scientific founders of the conc.
