Youth temporalities and uncertainty: Understanding variations in young Argentinians’ professional careers

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Eugenia Longo
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Working World

Social class and the labor market, traditional emphases of sociological analysis, are insufficient to explain variations in modes of professional insertion among young people. Arguing against the dominant understanding of young adults as project-less prisoners of presentism and an uncertain labor market in Argentina, this article reveals the existence of multiple forms of youth temporalities underlying the ways in which young adults are able (or not) to project themselves into the future and enter the working world. Drawing from longitudinal qualitative data, I have identified four types of youth temporalities: planners, executers, dormants and opportunists. This typology brings variation to the way subjects experience time and how this experience helps to examine career choices, thereby opening a new analytical path that connects with broader analyses of dominant temporal frames of professional insertion.

You Are What You Listen To: Young People's Stereotypes about Music Fans

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Rentfrow ◽  
Jennifer A. McDonald ◽  
Julian A. Oldmeadow
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Musical Genres

Research suggests that young people use music to express themselves and to make claims about their identities. The current work considered the possible consequences of using music in this way. Using a sample of 80 British young adults, we aimed to replicate and extend previous research on the stereotypes that young people have about fans of various musical genres. It was hypothesized that individuals attribute similar psychological characteristics and social categories to fans of certain styles of music and that those distinct associations are generalizable. Results indicated that judges agreed on both the psychological (personality, personal qualities and values) and social (ethnicity and social class) characteristics of music fans, that the content of the music-genre stereotypes varied between genres, and that the stereotypes are geographically robust. The implications of this work for group processes and intergroup relations are discussed.

scholarly journals Youth transitions and job quality

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-293
Author(s):  
Marianna Filandri ◽  
Tiziana Nazio ◽  
Jacqueline O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Direct Channel ◽  
Cross Sectional

This chapter explores how youth unemployment, discontinuous employment, and working in low-quality jobs affect individuals’ subsequent occupational conditions. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal EU-SILC data (2005–2012) for five countries, the chapter distinguishes between different types of good and bad jobs, examining the effect of family background on successful transitions. Findings show that young people from families of higher social class have better chances of making transitions into good-quality jobs than do youth from lower class families. Securing a good entry job is crucial to achieving a successful outcome, whereas experiencing either brief periods of unemployment or employment continuity has limited effects. These mechanisms are evident across all countries considered. The findings reinforce established knowledge on patterns of stratification, evidencing a direct channel of social transmission of inequalities through education and an indirect channel through better labor market entries.

scholarly journals Aspirasi Pemuda Kelas Bawah dan Reproduksi Sosial Di Jawa Tengah

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo ◽  
Rani Dwi Putri ◽  
Karin Larasati Kusumawardhani
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility

Central Java is one of provinces that is progressive in developing its industries, especially in manufacturing. However, the unemployment rate among youth in this province turns out to be considerably high. The high number of unemployment rates and low participation in the labor market among youth are caused by various factors. One of them is the gap between human resources and demand in the labor market. The gap in education, skills, and access to information triggering the condition whereas youth are not counted to involve in the labor market. This gap certainly emerged based on the social class differences inherent in each young people. In addition, gender differences also affect opportunities and freedom in choosing a job. This research uses qualitative methods with the process of observation, in-depth interviews, and Focus Group Discussion as techniques for data collecting. Through the selection of two female and two male informants (purposive sampling), this research concludes that social class factors, gender, and changing contexts, especially in the conditions of Labor Market Flexibility (LMF) became the main factors in shaping and influencing the transition process related to future aspirations of youth. The application of neoliberalism and Labor Market Flexibility perpetuates the social reproduction based on class and gender which enables social gaps to increase in the future. This condition is predicted to marginalize poor and vulnerable young people even more

Angry youth or realistic idealist? The formation of subjectivity in online political participation of young adults in urban China

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332092514
Author(s):  
Jun Fu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Urban China ◽  
The Internet ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
Online Political Participation

This article examines the formation of Chinese young people’s political subjectivity through exploring their everyday online political participation. Drawing on qualitative data collected from 31 Chinese young people, it identifies three dispositions apparent in their online participatory activities in different circumstances: ‘angry youth’, ‘powerless cynics’, and ‘realistic idealists’. Reflecting their accounts of these participatory activities, these dispositions as manifestations of subjectivities are shaped by the contingent participatory circumstances of the young people and are connected to their previous history of participation. Their online political participation serves as a vehicle for the formation of their subjectivity in the distinctively Chinese context. In this way, the internet facilitates the formation of the subjectivities of young people by providing a space for them to interact with other collective subjectivities, enabling a new form of engagement within which the formation of new subjectivities can develop.

Conclusions: advanced youth marginality post-Brexit

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Uk

Rodgers and Blackman consider the contemporary issues affecting young adults in the UK as a result of the economic insecurity post Brexit. It addresses three sections relating to marginality: Firstly, austerity measures targeting young people; Secondly, the critical intersections of social class, gender and ethnic identities within political, cultural, and popular discourses as they impinge upon the question of young people and social marginalisation, Thirdly, assess the degrees of resistance and autonomy amongst young people, where agency appears highly vulnerable and young people struggle to maintain an independent voice.

Labor Market Uncertainties for Youth and Young Adults: An International Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 688 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Market Uncertainties

A crisis for youth labor market conditions has been building globally for more than two decades, reflected in the persistently high rates of youth unemployment around the world, which is about three times as high as that for adults. About one in five young people are not in education, employment, or training, and a large share of young adults are working in the informal economy or in precarious conditions. This volume includes a collection of thirteen articles that examine the causes, patterns, and consequences of labor market uncertainties for youth and young adults in Europe, Latin/South America, the United States, and Asia, as well as a concluding article. They reveal vast inequalities among young people, with those having the least education and lowest skills, females, those with low family socioeconomic status (SES), ethnic minorities, and migrants being the most vulnerable. In this introduction, we describe the global trends and regional variation in labor market conditions for young people, explicate the importance of integrating young people into labor markets, and summarize the findings and policy implications of these articles.

scholarly journals Passion and Exploitation Among Young Adults with Different Labor Market Status in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuula Bergqvist ◽  
Birgitta Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Market Status ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross National

The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the relationship between attitudes to work, wellbeing, and labor market status among young adults in Europe and to discuss the extent to which the relationship can be understood in terms of passion or exploitation. This aim is made concrete in the following research questions: To what extent do young adults in Europe have a passionate attitude to work? Are there differences between groups with various labor market status and nationalities? Are there differences in levels of well-being between the groups of young adults with different labor market status, and differences between the countries? The results are based on an individual survey conducted with three categories of young people (18–34 years old): long-term unemployed, those in precarious employments, and those regularly employed. The study had a cross-national comparative design and the countries included were France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.

scholarly journals Strategic management and management of personnel costs: employing young people in the Slovak Republic

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Mura ◽  
Jana Žuľová ◽  
Adam MadleHák
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Personnel Costs

This paper focuses on evaluating strategic management of the labor market through legislated active labor market measures introduced in the Slovak Republic to support youth employment. Based on the presented statistical data and managerial and legal analysis of the labor market in the Slovak Republic, with particular emphasis on the economic status of young people, two key parts of the adopted strategic document should provide better economic security for young adults. From the point of view of employers the initiatives are an attractive means for incorporating young adults into the economy, especially because this allows for increased active management of personnel costs that are directly related to compensatory incentives from the side of state agencies for employment of young people. This strategic management creates possibilities for employers to gain access to lower labor costs and to realize significant cost savings. Supporting data are presented graphically and at the same time the cost savings for employers are calculated. Overall, these two analyses demonstrate the practical effect of the new strategic measures on corporate management of personnel costs

‘Urfi marriage, an Egyptian Version of Cohabitation?

1970 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Ikran Eum
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
State Pension

In Egypt, the term ‘urfi2 in relation to marriage means literally “customary” marriage, something that has always existed in Egypt but nowadays tends mostly to be secretly practiced among young people. Traditionally, according to Abaza,3 ‘urfi marriage took place not only for practical purposes (such as enabling widows to remarry while keeping the state pension of their deceased husbands), but also as a way of matchmaking across classes (since men from the upper classes use ‘urfi marriage as a way of marrying a second wife from a lower social class). In this way a man could satisfy his sexual desires while retaining his honor by preserving his marriage to the first wife and his position in the community to which he belonged, and keeping his second marriage secret.

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