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Sociologie et sociétés

Des jeunesses et des sociologies. Le cas Français

François DUBET

Les jeunesVolume 28, Number 1, printemps 1996

URI: id.erudit.org/iderudit/001202arDOI: 10.7202/001202ar

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DUBET, F. (1996). Des jeunesses et des sociologies. Le casFrançais. Sociologie et sociétés, 28(1), 23–35.doi:10.7202/001202ar

Article abstract

Different types of sociological analysis on youth are broughttogether in this examination of how an age category isconstructed, defined by independent cultural criteria and bymechanisms at work in the categories by which individuals aredistributed within the social structure. It can be seen in thisway how different sociological theories of youth oscillateincessantly from one pole to the other and find their definitionin the tension inherent in the research object itself. Thisduality is being transformed historically with the advent ofmodern youth and is played out for the most part in themechanics of the school. Youth can be considered as a socialactor insofar as this duality is taken into account.

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