Growing up on the EU periphery: Portugal.

Autor/in	Pais, Jose Machado
Titel	Growing up on the EU periphery: Portugal.
Quelle	Aus: Growing up in Europe - contemporary horizons in childhood and youth studies. Berlin: deGruyter (1995) S. 195-208Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen 1
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Lebensgestaltung; Generationenbeziehung; Jugend; Familienbeziehungen; Jugendpolitik; Europäische Integration; Investition; Konsumverhalten; Portugal
Abstract	Over the past two decades selective modernisation in Portugal has sent shocks through the social structure of the country, leading to breakdown at some points of the process of social and cultural reproduction.... Young people's relations with institutions - school, family and marriage - are also shifting, although the social constraints and prescriptions concerning the passage to adulthood are felt differently in different social classes. The relationship between generations has also changed. The older generations take a more pessimistic view of modernisation, while the young people are more openly in favour.... Despite wide social differences amongst themselves, the young generation of the nineties may go down in history as the 'yo-yo generation'. This ... can be described as follows. Firstly, the yo-yo movement is characteristic of peripheries and results from the combined action of centripetal forces (inwards to the centre) and centrifugal forces (outwards from the centre). The former are driven by modernisation, the latter by tradition. Secondly, the centripetal forces involve investment of financial capital in young generations, while the centrifugal forces persist with investments of social capital.... Thirdly, the yo-yo movement is visible in the way that the traditional thresholds in the passage to adulthood - leaving home, marriage, finding a job - are increasingly reversible.... Fourthly, the amplitude of the yo-yo movement has tended to dilate (... yoooooh): on the one hand the specific problems of the juvenile condition have begun to be experienced by children, whilst on the other hand young people arrive at adulthood with the resources of youth capital as part of their cultural make-up.... Finally, to swing back and forth - like a yo- yo is characteristic of current young lifestyles, subject as they are to an ethic of experimentation (at work, in love, etc.). (DIPF/orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2002_(CD)