‘We don’t have any limits’: Russian young adult life narratives through a social generations lens
@article{Vandegrift2016WeDH, title={‘We don’t have any limits’: Russian young adult life narratives through a social generations lens}, author={Darcie Vandegrift}, journal={Journal of Youth Studies}, year={2016}, volume={19}, pages={221 - 236} }
A social generation framework attends to how emergent historical patterns of social organization shape young adult contemporaries, noting shared strategies to constructing subjectivity within a common political, social, and economic milieu. However, the perspective has given scant attention to how young people engage in reflexive life management outside of well-documented Western contexts. Additionally, the framework needs further consideration of how youth lives are shaped by the social…
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