Changing the social position of student youth in contemporary European society
Sociology
Keywords:
youth, students, socio-economic position, transitions, valuesAbstract
In the article we are presenting research results about social position of student youth, which were obtained in 2008 on the sample of students from four universities in Slovenia (UL, UM, UP and UNG). In the research we were interested on how students handle the challenges and risks of contemporary society, how they are equipped for the transition to adulthood or broader, how much is the student youth in today’s postmodern society still avant-garde of social progress. We are asking ourselves whether we are dealing with the process of transition of studies (as goods, skills) from the domain of desire (for knowledge, skills, personal growth, critical thinking) to a domain of demand (fighting for better socio-economic position in the labour market and in society in general). If we accept findings that studies or academic titles are increasingly transferred to the level of demand; what does this mean for the process of university education, it’s relevance in relation to the labour market, how does it affect the socio-economic position of students, the shaping of their biographies and finally, how does it affect the stratification movements in a society.References
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