Youth Between Integration and Disaf?liation in French Cities  

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Roulleau-Berger, Laurence

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Joining Society Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth, page 71-85.
Topik: Social Forms of Intermediate Spaces; Cultures of Uncertainty; The Production of Collective and Individual Competences; Transitional Socialization to Socialization into the Urban Labor Market
Fulltext: Youth Between Integration and Disaf?liation in French Cities.pdf (351.68KB)

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Contrary to accepted ideas, young people are not always passive in the face of risk and unemployment, nor are they merely the sum of their previous familial, educational, and social trajectories. Rather, they are coauthors of their own socialization, endowed with a capacity for interpretation and an ability to invent social roles, even in situations of constraint and great risk. Of course, when situations become intolerable, individuals’ capacity for action diminishes almost to the vanishing point. At the same time, however, the socialization of young people is still a continuous and dynamic process that moves forward through a series of alterations, readjustments, and identity con?icts among those young people and the groups to which they belong. According to Becker and McCall (1990), “Nothing is fully determined. At every step of every unfolding event, something else might happen. To be sure, the balance of constraints and opportunities available to the actors, individual and collective, in a situation will lead many, perhaps most of them to do the same thing”

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