TAILIEUCHUNG - Entering adulthood - from diagnoses of youth to social policies towards them: In search of specificity of transition countries

This article2 presents the main findings from a report about young people made within the context of an international research project, including 9 transition countries of Europe and Asia. Poland, as a country with its own social and demographic, economic and political specificity is placed in the centre of this analysis. | Entering Adulthood - from Diagnoses of Youth to Social Policies towards Them: In Search of Specificity of Transition Countries Krystyna Szafraniec1 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. 1 Email: Received: 21 March, 2017. Accepted: 25 March, 2017. Abstract: This article2 presents the main findings from a report about young people made within the context of an international research project, including 9 transition countries of Europe and Asia. Poland, as a country with its own social and demographic, economic and political specificity is placed in the centre of this analysis. However, its casus represents problems typical of a broader group of transition countries in general matters related to the social situation of the youth. The areas revealing the largest cumulation of young people’s life problems are the subject of this article’s investigations. According to our findings, these are education, entering a labour market and issues related to becoming self-reliant and personal life arrangements. The specific of the transition countries is that all of the above presenting a quite different, non-standard face of the youth, which may be excessively prolonged in entering adulthood, more complex (hybrid), more difficult to bear, systemically bereft and politically riskier. Keywords: The youth, young adults, education, labour market, privacy arrangements. Today in many countries, young people are a critical element of social structure. However, it is hard to identify manifestations of defiance or negation in their life situation and the impossibility of the realisation of aims imposed by the culture. What is required is thus close observation of their life situation and problems. We are interested in the young citizens from the transition countries; the representatives of the first generation whose intellectual adolescence occurred in the new political system which is, in a sense, their common generational experience and distinguishes .

• Xã hội học
• Entering adulthood from diagnoses
• Social policies towards them
• Specificity of transition countries
• Social and demographic
• Economic and political specificity