A Review of Evolving Paradigms in Youth Studies

Laura Guerrero Puerta ()
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Laura Guerrero Puerta: Department of Social Psychology and Education, University Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Seville, Spain

Societies, 2023, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: This article focuses on the changes experienced by European youth because of the neoliberal globalised model. It analyses the impact of these socio-economic changes on school-to-work transitions and explores different theoretical perspectives (from the linear to pinball models) to understand them from a critical point of view centred on the individual. These transformations have caused the traditional markers of passage to adulthood to become diluted, generating de-standardised trajectories with possible “round-trip” states. The aim is to provide an understanding of youth-related phenomena under models described with the sociology of transition, exploring aspects such as reversibility and contextual influence on their life course.

Keywords: youth; neoliberalism–globalisation; school-to-work transitions; de-standardised trajectories; sociology of transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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