Youth employability and normative ambiguity
Palacios, Margarita and Cardenas, A. (2009) Youth employability and normative ambiguity. Revista Observatorio de la Juventud (21), pp. 63-74. ISSN 0718-3119.
Abstract
The articulation between social order and autonomy that underlies the notion of employability has become increasingly complex since it supposes the development of contradictory attitudes, according to the political and labor ethos of our contemporary society, which combine productivity, governmentality and freedom. Based on the fifindings of our exploratory qualitative and quantitative study done in Santiago with youth of lower socio-economic strata, this article discusses the tensions and risks associated to the notion of employability. Our study has shown that when biographies are organized around normative horizons which differ from the legal and/or socially accepted ones, the youth becomes un-employable.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | youth employability, individualization, youth of lower socio economic strata |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Centre for (CILAVS) |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2011 17:16 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4490 |
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