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La transizione alla vita adulta nelle società europee: nuove direzioni di ricerca tra equivoci e opportunità digital La transizione alla vita adulta nelle società europee: nuove direzioni di ricerca tra equivoci e opportunità
Anno: 2012
N. De Luigi, Transition to adulthood in European societies: new research directions between fallacies and opportunity During the past decades, youth transitions have become not only prolonged but also more fragmented and diversified. These changes have encouraged new research directions in contemporary youth studies. Compared to perspectives developed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers aim today to consider individual agency as being more significant, focusing on the capability of young people to make plans, exercise choices and shape their lives within the opportunities and constraints that face them. These new theoretical perspectives have also promoted new representations of youth transitions in academic literature. This paper explores the emergence of the image of navigation in youth research, certainly the most used metaphor in the last years. As will be discussed, navigation image can be useful to characterise the lives of young people in changing social landscapes in which uncertainty tends to dominate and where feelings of contingency increase. Provided of course that it is used with precision and tested adequately in particular social contexts in order to capture the complexity and diversity of young people’s lives rather than making useless and confused generalisations. Key words: Individualisation, structure/agency; transition to adulthood; young people; youth studies.
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L’adultità: rappresentazioni, progettualità e stili di transizione delle giovani generazioni digital L’adultità: rappresentazioni, progettualità e stili di transizione delle giovani generazioni
Anno: 2012
C. Pasqualini, Adulthood: representations, planning and styles of transition in young generations This paper analyses representations, planning and styles of transition in two different generations of young people: Stuck Generation – thirty years old youngs – and Active generation – twenty years old youngs. Both generations show elements of continuity and (interesting) discontinuity. While Stuck Generation is characterized by limited planning and strong privatism, Active Generation is proving a major social and political commitment, a more critical attitude and desire to invest in their future. In general terms, in recent years, the life course has lost linearity, becoming complex and «de-standardized», leading sociology of youth to rethink the process of transition to adulthood. Key words: youth, generations, social representations, planning, transition to adulthood
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Sogni di genere. Disuguaglianze e risorse nel futuro immaginato degli adolescenti digital Sogni di genere. Disuguaglianze e risorse nel futuro immaginato degli adolescenti
Anno: 2012
M. Colombo, Gender’s dreams. Inequalities and resources in the imagined future of the teenagers What and how do adolescents make dreams about their future? How much are they prepared to social competition? Are they aware of gender inequalities and differences operating within the system of choices? Do they exploit these differences for reaching their targets? Through the data set of a national enquiry «Prin 2005 – Adolescents and Life chance», this essays makes distinctions between the «female» and the «male» way to live the present as a condition and a preview of the future, also underlining the existence of gendered resources to imagine the future itself. If nowadays adolescents live in a frame of increasing «de-differentiation» (boys and girls having same targets, similar psychological states, and tacitly agree with the issue of gender parity), with no doubt they are greatly influenced by discriminating rules and mechanism of the system of chances. Girls are requested of a long-time commitment until the graduation in order to obtain security and personal realization. Boys instead are requested to make projects of work, earning and professional career, with a short-term life planning, in order to overtake the «test of future». At the present, girls and boys live together and exchange continuously their visions in a sort of coeducation: material and cultural consumption are the features of the female-side, large network of relations and distance from institutions of the male-side. Key words: gender differentiation, educational choices, orientation towards future, gendered patterns of life planning, gender inequalities.
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Digital generation? Giovani e nuove tecnologie della comunicazione, al di là degli stereoptipi digital Digital generation? Giovani e nuove tecnologie della comunicazione, al di là degli stereoptipi
Anno: 2012
P. Aroldi, Digital generation? Young people and new communication technologies, beyond the rhetoric Young people seem to have a peculiar relationship with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and some scholars are accostumed to refer to them as a generation of «digital natives». Such a rhetoric approach, very common in social discourses, is here questioned because it tends to hide the complexity of the sociological notion of «generation» and the differences still standing among young people about digital and internet literacies: a sort of digital divide in access and uses, affecting both intragenerational and intergenerational relationships. Digital competences for identity expression, social and political participation, learning and creativity are evaluated as far as tools for empowering youth’s agency and life-chances, focussing on conflicting dynamics of emancipation, on the one side, and reproduction of social, economic and cultural capitals of the families, on the other side. Key words: Youth, ICTs, internet, agency, digital divide, generations.
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Giovani, generazioni e mutamento nella sociologia di Karl Mannheim digital Giovani, generazioni e mutamento nella sociologia di Karl Mannheim
Anno: 2012
M. Merico, Youth, Generations and Change in Karl Mannheim’s Sociology This paper revisits Karl Mannheim’s contribution to the sociological understanding of the role of ‘generation’ and ‘youth’ in the processes of change, framing the analysis within his intellectual development. In the first section, Mannheim’s ‘formal’ analysis in his short essay ‘The Problem of Generations’ is presented in the context of his approach to the ‘sociology of knowledge‘. Particular attention is paid to the dialectical relationship that he identified between the pace of change and the succession of generations, as well as to the potential contribution of young people to social and cultural change. The second section, moving from the development of his ideas towards a ‘sociology of democratic planning’, considers and discusses the suggestion that youth might be understood as a latent resource and a potential agent of change. This discussion is broadened to consider general issues of youth policies and social education. The overall thrust of the analysis suggests that, more than sixty years after his death, Mannheim’s sociology raises questions and issues still relevant today for the study of generations, youth, and social and cultural change, although many of the issues he illuminated remain unresolved. Key words: succession of generations, youth, social and cultural change, sociology of knowledge, democratic planning
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Analisi d’opere digital Analisi d’opere
Anno: 2011
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Analisi d'opere digital Analisi d'opere
Anno: 2011
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The proposal of humanist constructionism digital The proposal of humanist constructionism
Anno: 2011
V. CESAREO - I. VACCARINI, The proposal of humanist constructionism Sociological theory in the twentieth century polarized between collectivist doctrines which asserted social determinism and individualist ones which asserted the autonomous action of atomistically conceived individuals. The late 1900s also saw the advent of a kind of radical individualism which can be labelled «sociological minimalism». «Social constructionism» is the contemporary approach which seeks to reconcile the above polarizations, and it is within its theoretical domain that lies the proposal for a «humanist constructionism» put forward in this article. Humanist constructionism sets value on subjectivity and historicity. On this base it thematizes the person understood as a sociological category, and it crucially refers to the sociology of Max Weber in so far as it is qualified by the existential and historicist dimensions. The distinctive feature of humanist constructionism is its axiological profile founded upon the concept of citizenship. Within contemporary sociology, «humanist constructionism» has a particular elective affinity with the morphogenetic approach of M. Archer. Key words: humanism, constructionism, person, citizenship.
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Alcune note sull’idea di «Big Society» digital Alcune note sull’idea di «Big Society»
Anno: 2011
T. MARCI, Notes on the idea of «Big Society» The aim of this paper is to underline the sociological meaning of the political idea of «Big Society»: an idea that was launched on July 2010 by the Prime Minister David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party. The genesis of the «Big Society» was the idea, first articulated by Phillip Blond, that the stifling duopoly of a centralised state and a laissez-faire free market had reached the point of diminishing returns – and that nothing less than a radical, coherent platform for reinvigorating civil society would suffice. In this way, the aim was to create a climate that empowers local people and communities, building a «Big Society» that will take power away from politicians and give it to people. This is a bottom-up vision, not a government program dictated from the state to citizens. «Big Society» is about a cultural change where people don’t always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for answers to the problems they face but instead feel both free and powerful enough to help themselves and their own communities. The paper propose a critical point of view about these problems. Key words: big society, civil society, social enterprises, communities, citizenship.
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