Autore
Leccardi, Carmen

Titolo
Young people and the new semantics of the future
Periodico
Società mutamento politica (Online)
Anno: 2014 - Volume: 5 - Fascicolo: 10 - Pagina iniziale: 41 - Pagina finale: 54

Young people in the new century find themselves having to define their existential choices within a social landscape that is strongly characterized by the acceleration of change. Contemporary time seems to erase temporal continuity and the notion of the life-plan as developed in the modern era. The article analyses how this process impacts on the biographical constructs of young people and how the changing experience of time affects the transition to adulthood and the spread of new values. The hypothesis is that the positive relation among life-plan, biographical time, and identity encounters difficulties when the future is shortened. Planning capacity is compromised and life-projects depend more on subjective factors than on completion of the canonical life-stages marked out by institutional times-frames. As a result young peoples “navigate by sight”, dealing with uncertainty, rather than following pre-established routes. The restructuration of the relationship between identity and social time do not consist only in absolutization of the present reflects in a positive redefinition of the relationship with the future. The “new youth” possesses sufficient capacities to be able to govern the dynamics of the high-speed society in which they find themselves living.



SICI: 2038-3150(2014)5:10<41:YPATNS>2.0.ZU;2-J
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