Data di Pubblicazione:
2018
Citazione:
A generational attitude : young adults facing the economic crisis in Milan / E. Colombo, L. Leonini, P. Rebughini. - In: JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES. - ISSN 1354-571X. - 23:1(2018), pp. 61-74.
Abstract:
For almost 10 years there has been talk of the economic crisis affecting the
European area, with more evident effects in the Mediterranean countries. Yet
the expression ‘economic crisis’ has become too wide and blurred to be useful
for describing how the current socio-economic conjuncture is affecting different
categories of young people in different ways. Precariousness and reduced job
opportunities, with their consequences for social mobility, constitute only the
more explicit and raw evidence of the lived experience of the crisis among young
people. Although families remain the all-solving institution, the consequences
of the crisis are diversified according to the economic, cultural and social
capital of each individual, to gender and generation position, and to subjective
and contextualized perceptions. This article presents research conducted to
investigate how young people living in the urban area of Milan locate, react,
readapt and reinvent themselves in the present economic context by analysing
their aspirations, expectations and practices. We develop a comparative analysis
of the main structural bias (gender, education, social class position) in order to
shed light on the effects and perceptions of the crisis among young people in
the city of Milan.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Youth; Generation; Social location; Crisis
Elenco autori:
E. Colombo, L. Leonini, P. Rebughini
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