Vita e Pensiero
La transizione alla vita adulta nelle società europee: nuove direzioni di ricerca tra equivoci e opportunità
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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
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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
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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
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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.
€ 6,00
Giovani, generazioni e mutamento nella sociologia di Karl Mannheim
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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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The proposal of humanist constructionism
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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.
€ 6,00
Alcune note sull’idea di «Big Society»
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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.
€ 6,00
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