The review of the HSE Youth Research Center conference demonstrates the actualization of youth research in the context of intergenerational transfers in modern Russia. The following issues have ...become particularly relevant: how young people comprehend reality, how their identity is formed; what are the new forms of youth activity and specific lifestyles. The focus is on the issues of patriotism, attitude to the state, trust in government institutions, youth migration, as well as employment. A diverse palette of studies using mainly qualitative methodology is demonstrated.
In today’s post-industrial societies, young people, compared to previous generations, experience longer and more complex processes of creating professional identity, developing a career or finding ...“one’s vocation”. They also face difficulties in achieving financial independence, starting a family, and leaving parental homes, which altogether define the status of an adult person. Based on the overview of sociological and psychological scholarly literature, the complexity of young people’s identity formation in the context of a passage towards social maturity is analysed. The most significant tensions related to the question of “who am I and what do I want” are emphasized in the article, together with the circumstances of contemporary society that stimulate them. (Non-)applicability of the concept of the quarter-life crisis is finally highlighted in order to summarise, reflect, and explain some of the experiences and life events of young people. The title of the article is a famous quotation of Tennessee Williams.
Numerous negative representations of youth emerged in the aftermath of the 2011 English riots. This article intends to fill a gap in the literature on the ‘riot-affected’ areas by looking at how ...youths from Tottenham (the North London constituency where a peaceful demonstration escalated into the English riots of 2011) deal with stereotypical and homogeneous portrayals put forward by the British mainstream news media and many government ministers. In drawing on an alternative conceptualisation of reflexivity that spells out how reflexive orientations relate to lived experiences, the article aims to open up novel pathways for understanding youth reflexivity in the context of being regularly subjected to negative representations. This is achieved by tying reflexive activity more closely to Alfred Schütz’s notion of ‘stock of knowledge’. The study applies qualitative methods to empirically address how a group of eighteen 15- to 25-year-olds from Tottenham reflexively negotiate the harmful consequences of stigmatised identities. The most striking conclusion to emerge from the data is that Tottenham’s young people embody a diverse range of youth identities and reflexive attitudes; a conclusion that flies in the face of the way in which much of the media depicted youths after the riots.
Malgré les progrès notables réalisés dans l’accès aux études supérieures au Québec, on remarque encore des inégalités de fréquentation chez certains groupes sociaux. Afin d’explorer le contexte ...social d’élaboration des projets d’études, l’analyse thématique de 96 entretiens avec des collégiens permet de mieux comprendre le regard qu’ils portent sur le rapport aux études et le parcours scolaire de leurs parents. L’analyse révèle cinq types de rapport aux études des parents (indifférent, utilitaire, lucide, protecteur et autoritaire), qui se présentent seuls ou en combinaison avec les autres. Il s’en dégage également un regard souvent mélioratif que les jeunes portent sur le parcours scolaire de leurs parents, assez clivé selon le niveau de scolarité de leurs parents et marqué par une forme de bienveillance ou de compréhension. La discussion aborde également la persistance de l’influence du milieu familial dans le parcours scolaire des jeunes au cégep.
This article explores how temporality and temporal regimes might be engaged in qualitative research in the sociology of education, proposing that such questions matter in relation to how research is ...done, not only to the topics and themes researched. The article shows how temporality enters into research designs, practices and imaginaries, arguing that research methodologies mobilise intersecting temporalities. Debates in the philosophy of history regarding the collision of temporalities are canvassed, and approaches are outlined for conceptualising temporality in reference to qualitative studies. To illustrate these arguments, an account is offered of theoretical and methodological approaches framing a new qualitative longitudinal study of young people and secondary schooling in Australia; to highlight the historicity of methodologies, comparisons are also drawn between this study and an earlier related longitudinal study undertaken in the 1990s. The article concludes by inviting a re-consideration of the possibilities for a renewal of historical sociology of education.
RESUMO O artigo tem por objetivo analisar como os partidos ecológicos são vistos pelos jovens no Brasil e, consequentemente, qual o perfil dos eleitores dessas legendas. Para tanto, realiza um estudo ...exploratório a partir da aplicação de um questionário a 710 informantes. Para analisar os dados, o aporte teórico utiliza contribuições da sociologia político-ambiental e da sociologia da juventude. Dentre os resultados obtidos a partir do cruzamento de variáveis, pode-se constatar que conhecer o partido e suas propostas, estar em faixa etária jovem mais avançada, assim como ter maior nível de escolaridade e renda familiar se associam positivamente ao voto de jovens nos partidos ecológicos. Conclui também que os vínculos sociais continuam relevantes para a construção social da reputação política dos partidos, uma vez que os jovens tomam conhecimento das propostas das agremiações (sobretudo, PV e REDE) por meio de seu círculo de amigos.
ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze the perception of Brazilian youth on the green parties, as well as the profile of their young voters in Brazil. Therefore, the researchers conducted a questionnaire with 710 informants. The analysis was based on the theoretical contributions from political-environmental sociology and from the sociology of youth. Amongst the results from the cross-checking of variables, we could find that knowing the party and its proposals, being in a more advanced age group, having a higher level of schooling and higher family income are positively associated with the youth vote in the ecological parties. Furthermore, social attachments keep relevant to the social construction of the political reputation of the green parties, since young people get to know these institutions proposals (especially PV and REDE) through their friends.
RESUMEN El artículo tiene por objetivo analizar las percepciones de jóvenes electores sobre los partidos ecológicos, así como el perfil de los votantes de esas leyendas en Brasil. Entonces, la investigación tiene base en uno cuestionario aplicado con 710 informantes. Para el analysis de los datos, se utiliza como soporte teórico la sociología político-ambiental y la sociología de la juventud. Entre los resultados del cruce de variables, constatase que conocer el partido y las propuestas, estar en grupo de edad más avanzada, tener mayor nivel de escolaridad y mayor ingreso familiar se asocian positivamente al voto de jóvenes en los partidos ecológicos. Además, los lazos sociales siguen siendo relevantes para la construcción social de la reputación de los partidos políticos, ya que los jóvenes conocen las propuestas de estas asociaciones (especialmente, PV y REDE), a través de su círculo de amigos.
RÉSUMÉ L’article a l’objectif d’analyser les perceptions de la jeunesse brésilienne sur les partis écologiques, ainsi que le profil des jeunes électeurs de ces legendes là. Donc, la recherche s’est basée dans un questionnaire appliqué à 710 participants. Pour analyser les données, on utilize comme du support théorique la sociologie politique-environnementale et la sociologie de la jeunesse. Parmi les résultats du croisement des variables, on avère que le fait de connaître le parti et les propositions, d›être dans un groupe d›âge plus avancé, d›avoir un niveau de scolarité plus élevé et un revenu familial plus élevé sont des caractéristiques positivement associées au vote des jeunes électeurs pour les partis écologiques. Em plus, on vérifie que les liens sociaux restent pertinents pour la construction sociale de la réputation des partis politiques, puisque les jeunes connaissent les propositions des associations (surtout PV et REDE) à travers leurs amis.
RESUMO As transformações pelas quais a educação brasileira passou nas últimas três décadas alteraram os cenários sociais e institucionais para a escolarização da juventude, possibilitando a ...massificação do Ensino Médio e o surgimento de um número significativo de jovens que representam a primeira geração de suas famílias a chegar aos bancos universitários. No entanto, resta perguntar se as desigualdades educacionais entre os jovens foram eliminadas, minimizadas, acentuadas ou reconfiguradas para novas formas de estratificação educacional. Ainda hoje, o Ensino Médio se perpetua como um filtro à conclusão da educação básica? Ou, ao contrário, a continuidade dos estudos esbarra sobretudo no gargalo de acesso ao Ensino Superior? Este texto procura refletir sobre as novas e velhas barreiras à escolarização da juventude que têm se apresentado no Brasil entre os anos 1990 e a década vigente, abordando recortes socioeconômicos, raciais e de gênero.
ABSTRACT The transformation of Brazilian education over the last three decades has changed the social and institutional landscape for the schooling of youth, with the expansion of secondary school enrollment, and the emergence of a significant number of young people who represent the first generation in their families to obtain a university degree. However, the question remains whether or not the educational inequalities faced by young people have been eliminated, minimized, increased or reshaped to new forms of educational stratification. Nowadays, does secondary school remain a barrier for the completion of compulsory education? Or, on the contrary, has the transition to postsecondary education been constrained by bottlenecks in the admission process? By framing socioeconomic, racial and gender relations, this article reflects on both existing and newly emerging barriers to youth schooling in Brazil between the 1990s and the current decade.
This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place ...influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children’s Reading Development focuses on the digital maps and artistic renderings these readers were asked to create of a place (real or imagined) that they felt reflected their literate youth, and the discussions that followed about these maps and their evolution as readers. Analysing the participant’s responses, Margaret Mackey looks at the rich insights offered about the impact on childhood stability after experiences such as migration; the “reading spaces” children make based on their social relationships and domestic spheres; the creation of “textual spaces” and the significance of the recurring motif of forests in the participants’ maps; the importance of the Harry Potter novels; the basis of life-long reading habits; psychological spaces and whether readers visualize when they read. Blending theoretical perspectives on reading from many disciplines with the personal experiences of readers of diverse nationalities, languages, disciplinary interests, and life experiences, this is an enlightening account of the behaviors of readers, reading histories, and place-based reader responses to literature. By building greater understanding about the broad and subtle processes that enable people to read, this study refines the kind of questions we ask about reading and moves towards developing a multidisciplinary language for the study and discussion of reading practices in contemporary times. The open access edition of this book is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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