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Youth Society in Early Modern France: A Literary and Social Historical Analysis of the World of Secondary Schoolchildren
Author(s) -
PoelKnottnerus Frédérique,
Knottnerus J. David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1992.tb00291.x
Subject(s) - elite , sociology , authoritarianism , portrait , context (archaeology) , ethnography , gender studies , social science , politics , history , law , anthropology , democracy , political science , art history , archaeology
This study examines the youth society which was created in the lycées and collèges of France in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using literary and social‐historical records the personal and social experiences of youth in this milieu are delineated. A literary ethnography is constructed that presents a composite portrait of these actors’lives and society. In addition to certain beliefs, practices, and rules, authoritarian/coercive relations and hierarchical social structures are found to characterize this youth society. Attention is directed to the importance of explaining the emergence of this historical instance of a youth society within an elite school system in a way which identifies important structural processes operating in this setting and the larger societal context.