Rekonstrukcija mladosti in mladine v slovenski družbi v času tranzicije
Reconstruction of youth in Slovenian society in times of transition

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses changes and transformations in the relationship between young people and society that have occurred during the transition period in the last two decades in Slovenia. We contend that young people, who used to be a privileged social group in the socialist period, are now the “weakest link” of the transition period in Slovenia. Young people are confronted with an increasingly competitive education system, a more demanding labour market and prolonged dependence on their parents. Today young people are marginalised in the labour market, excluded from the mainstream flows of adult society and consequently deprived of sources of power. Without their economic and political representatives, young people only have a few rights and privileges and a lower social status. These theses will be tested by using comparative data obtained in surveys of young people in Slovenia carried out in the last three decades.

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