İMTİYAZLI BİR KİTLEDEN İŞSİZLER ORDUSUNA DEĞİŞEN GENÇLİK ALGISI
FROM PRIVILEGED CATEGORY TO ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: Youth is a dynamic category which is defined differently at different periods. This paper discusses how the youth category goes through a transformation from the early 19th century when the modern youth category emerges to the neoliberal era. The paper analyzes the transformation of the youth category by first discussing how youth emerges as a privileged constructor category during which the education system promises social equality with modernity, how the category experiences a transformation by the massification of the education system and lastly how youth becomes a vulnerable category in the neoliberal era during which the education system fails to keep its promises and provide social equality nor social mobility and during which the transition to adulthood becomes problematic with a special focus on Turkey.

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