Individualized Housing Careers in Early Adulthood
Conditions and Constraints in a Familistic Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magda Nico (0000-0002-4803-1119, CIES, ISCTE-IUL, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology ISCTE-IUL - Lisbon University Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-67 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.2079 |
| OpenAlex | W2006306801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article discusses the unsteady and uncertain conditions in which a potentially individualized life course co-exists with and survives in a so-called institutionalized, standardized, familistic and sub-protective society. For the purpose, non-family living in early adulthood in a southern European country (Portugal) is taken as the example. On one hand, data from the 2006 European Social Survey (23 countries, N=43000) is used to contextualize the Portuguese transition to adulthood and the preconceptions about the so-called familistic societies in general. On the other hand, data on events and values from a small sample of young adults living alone in Portugal (aged 24-30, N=120, approximately 1% of the universe considered), along with official statistics on a housing programme for these young adults (Rental Incentive for Young People), allows us to analytically deconstruct preconceptions about the relation between intergenerational support and welfare policies in familistic societies. This data demonstrates most of all how a mismatch between the still-prevailing institutionalization of life courses in some societies and the reflexivity characterizing contemporary biographies produces critical points in young people's lives. It also demonstrates the adaptability of family cultures to these 'choice biographies' in comparison to the lack of adaptability of some youth policies, in particular those involving housing. These processes of mismatching and misunderstanding reflect and promote the inadequacy and inefficiency of communication between youth research and policy-making
Demographic economics · Economics · Institutionalisation · Political science · Portuguese · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Risk Society
Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe
The Institutionalization of the Life Course
Die Institutionalisierung des Lebenslaufs
The individualized society
Youth, Citizenship and Social Change in a European Context
Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society
The analysis of early life courses
Do Transitions and Social Structures Matter? How ‘Emerging Adults’ Define Themselves as Adults
I Don't Want to Commit Myself Yet’
Forever young? young people's conception of adulthood
Symbolic resources and responsibility in transitions
New life course dynamics
Regimes of youth transitions
Leaving home
The Young Adult Years
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
Risk society
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
The Life Course as Developmental Theory
The Housing Decisions of Young People
A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life
The Persistence of the Standardized Life Cycle
Contestable Adulthood
Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood
High Hopes in a Grim World
Exploring Complex Transitions
The Measurement of Age, Age Structuring, and the Life Course
Age Differentiation and the Life Course
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |