Franceschelli, MF;
Keating, A;
(2018)
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People's Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work.
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10.1177/1103308817742287.
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Abstract
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views of the future were shaped by their deep-seated faith in the transformative power of hard work. We shall argue that this faith results from young people’s psychological adjustments to neoliberal beliefs about the potential of human agency to forge the future, with implications for views of others and society more generally.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People's Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1103308817742287 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308817742287 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Young people, future, agency, individualization, neoliberalism, social class |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042818 |
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