Open AccessA life course perspective: young people's trajectories and transitions in Colombia
Author(s) -
Alba Y. Varón,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ehquidad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2386-4915
DOI - 10.15257/ehquidad.2022.0003
Subject(s) - life course approach , articulation (sociology) , perspective (graphical) , biography , meaning (existential) , globalization , sociology , gender studies , psychology , political science , social psychology , art , law , politics , psychotherapist , visual arts
This paper aims to describe, from the standpoint of the life course, how young people's trajectories are shaped through the articulation between history and biography, emphasizing the changes associated with the meaning of the family and, from an economic standpoint, how the growing uncertainty resulting partly from the impact of the globalization of the labor market, social changes and cultural transformations, causing young people to stop experiencing linear trajectories, leaving current itineraries and collective identities at risk.