scholarly journals Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course: Attempting to Keep Things Open While Becoming a Farmer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Huijsmans ◽  
Aprilia Ambarwati ◽  
Charina Chazali ◽  
M. Vijayabaskar
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Early Entry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Salaried Employment ◽  
Study Sites

Abstract Drawing on life history interviews conducted in Indian and Indonesian study sites, we tease out the social production of aspirations in the process of becoming a farmer. We show the power of a doxic logic in which schooling is regarded as the pathway out of farming, towards a future of non-manual, salaried employment. Among rural youth this doxic logic produces broadly defined aspiration such as ‘completing education’, and ‘getting a job’. In the absence of clear pathways to realise such aspirations, young people seek to keep options open. Yet, the scope for doing so changes in relation to key life events such as ending school, migration and marriage and does so in distinctly gendered ways. We conclude proposing that young people’s delayed entrance into farming, among other things, must be understood as an attempt to keep open those futures that are considered closed by an early entry into full-time farming.

scholarly journals The Social Deviance of the Vietnamese Young toward Values and Lifestyles, Gender, Communication, and Family Customs

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Social

This study report is an analysis result of a quantitative survey on attitudes of Vietnamese youth both male (M) and female (F) who are civil servants, workers, young urbanites, rural youth, Pupil, Student, the young violated the laws about living styles, gender, communication, and family. The findings show that young people have opposite tendencies. Some of them advocate things have been traditionally named, while others are looking for and living in new ways which are being labelled as a kind of social deviance.

scholarly journals Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Huijsmans ◽  
Nicola Ansell ◽  
Peggy Froerer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Course Development ◽  
The Life Course

AbstractIn this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people’s lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on the methodological challenges in researching young people’s aspirations in development. While mindful of the various critiques of aspiration research we argue that aspirations constitute fertile terrain for theorising the temporal dynamics of being young and growing up in contexts of development.

scholarly journals Comprehensive School and Vocational Training in Spain. A Longitudinal Approach from the Transition from Lower to Upper Secondary Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Rafael Merino ◽  
Ona Valls ◽  
Albert Sánchez-Gelabert
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Education System ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Social Bias ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
The Social

Fitting vocational training into the Spanish education system has been challenging and problematic because two objectives are trying to be fulfilled; the first to supply skills for the productive system and the second to be an alternative option for the young people who do not follow the academic track. Moreover, the political vicissitudes of recent decades have added to the difficulties involved in balancing these requirements. In Spain, both the economic agents and the education system itself with its academic inertia have relegated vocational training to a subordinate position, able to attract mainly young people with lower academic achievement and largely rejected by families with a higher educational level. The assumption was that the introduction of a comprehensive secondary education in the 1990s would provide parity between the academic and the vocational tracks. However, the comprehensive nature of this system was not fully applied, with students in many schools separated by ability levels, and in fact having little impact on the social bias of the students choosing vocational training. The empirical contribution of this study is based on a survey carried out among 2056 students from Barcelona in their last year of compulsory secondary education in 2013–14 and who continued in full-time education, be it baccalaureate or vocational training. The main result shows that comprehensive education improves school success and decreases the vocational orientation of students from low social backgrounds.

scholarly journals Challenges and Prospects for Russian Youth in the Modern Labor Market

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Loginov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Early Entry ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Integral Estimation ◽  
Income Development

The paper analyzes the current state of youth employment. Findings of 2019 representative sociological study of youth cohorts show that early entry into labor market is a social norm commonly followed by all groups of young people. The paper studies characteristics of jobs taken up by young people. About one third of graduates works in the field of their specialization (major), their share is relatively higher in the social sector and among them, there are more those who have high quality educational resources. The paper covers an integral estimation of job satisfaction, showing that one third of young people are satisfied with their job above average, while 24% of surveyed are not satisfied with their position on the labor market. It shows that young people find the prospects of career progress (48%) and income development (64%) rather realistic. The factors that contribute to the prospects on the labor market are living in major cities and availability of high-quality educational resources.

Transitioning Into Adulthood

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schneider ◽  
Christopher Klager ◽  
I-Chien Chen ◽  
Jason Burns
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social

The transition to adulthood is not easily marked by specific life events such as completing school, getting married, or having children. Variations in timing and the economic and social pressures associated with the traditional signs of adulthood make young people’s decisions about their futures complex and uncertain. Experiences vary by gender, race, and ethnicity and by social, economic, family, and community resources. Rather than trying to define what adulthood is, institutions such as school and colleges should focus on customizing programs to meet the unique needs of specific populations. Better support systems should focus on the social and emotional needs of young people, to help them plan and execute a successful life course. Promising programs should be studied with more attention to the science of implementation and improvement.

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

Dal bambino libero all'uomo autonomo: educare alla scelta attraverso il metodo Montessori

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
Grazia Romanazzi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Grades ◽  
The Social ◽  
Montessori Method

Freedom, autonomy and responsibility are the ends of every educational process, especially in the modern society: globalized, rapid, in transformation; society in which each one of us is called to make numerous choices. Therefore, it is urgent to educate to choose and educate to the choice, so that young people can emancipate themselves from possible conditionings. To this end, the Montessori method represents a privileged way: child is free to choose his own activity and learns "to do by himself" soon; the teacher prepares the environment and the materials that allow the student to satisfy the educational needs of each period of inner development. Then, Montessori gives importance to adolescence because it is during this period that grows the social man. Consequently, it is important to reform the secondary school in order to acquire the autonomy that each student will apply to the subsequent school grades and to all areas of life

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