Growing up in Southern Italy: between tradition and modernity.

Autor/in	Leccardi, Carmen
Titel	Growing up in Southern Italy: between tradition and modernity.
Quelle	Aus: Growing up in Europe - contemporary horizons in childhood and youth studies. Berlin: deGruyter (1995) S. 95-104Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Gesellschaft; Soziale Beziehung; Familie; Familienbeziehungen; Verwandtschaft; Frauenrolle; Geschlechterrolle; Arbeitslosigkeit; Modernisierung; Tradition; Jugendlicher; Mädchen; Italien; Kalabrien
Abstract	Living and growing up in Southern Italy means facing specific problems unknown to young people in other parts of the country. In short it can be said that young southeners start off at a disadvantage, even though their expectations tend to be homogeneous with those of their counterparts in the Centre-North and their imaginations are fed by the same daily relationship with the media and consumption. Employment opportunities for young people appropriate to their educational qualifications are clearly inferior in quantity and quality to those available to young people in other parts of Italy. The high rates of unemployment among young southeners, particularly the females, together with the high proportion of precarious and unprotected employment, all too clearly confirm this difference. In the second place, and this is the aspect it seems to be crucial to take into account on this occasion, while young southern Italians have the same educational levels, consumption models and leisure-time activities as the youth elsewhere in Europe, their situation is rendered enormously different by the quality of life of the southern regions. The author underpins these statements by describing three social settings of this Italian region: 1) Calabria and clientelism, 2) Family and kinship in Calabria, 3) Young women in Calabria. (DIPF/orig./Kr.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)