Youths and intergeneracional social mobility

Youths, intergenerational social mobility and historical change. Insights from a studio in the third cord of GBA. UBACyT 20020100300083

Summary:

It’s widely accepted that youth can be defined as a transitional period from teenage to adulthood and that such transition varies according to the social class of origin. At the same time, existing literature tend to define the youth as a condition given the fact that the existing dimensions of transitions that took place in modern industrial societies have lost validity. The current project tries to problematize in a further degree these differences by conceptualizing transitions as part of a process of intergenerational social mobility towards the formation of a new home and that these differences are emerging as a result from structural changes in the number and type of social positions that are generated. In this sense, the project carries out a double approach whose aims are:

1) the analysis of the positions that youth people assume in the social and productive structure as secondary workers in and in relation to the home of origin; and

2) to explore and describe the different ways that the youth condition assume as a failed transition according the wage society standards and how it varies according to social class.

Given these dimensions, a mixed design is carried out combining quantitative and qualitative techniques. The former include analysis of inheritance rates and odd rates for youth secondary workers in homes in the great urban agglomerates, according to the Permanent House Survey (INDEC). It also works with a probabilistic sample of about 500 cases from a quarter in the GBA analyzing the course developments of two cohorts of young adults workers compared according to the historical moment of entering the labor market. Finally and regarding the qualitative design, cronotopic social representations of cohorts of young secondary workers selected according to the main occupation of the householder are described and analyzed.

Members:

Director:
Pablo Molina Dearteano

Fellows in Trainning/Assistants:
Lic. Verónica Casellas
Lic. Luciana Roberts
Xoana Denis

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