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Youth in transition countries: innovative potential, new context, new problems, and new challenges
Coordonator: Sorin Mitulescu
The present issue of Romanian Sociology
Revue is dedicated to the connection
between the social troubles specific to the
transition from communism to the market
economy and democracy on the one hand
and the specific anxieties of young people
who are looking for a road and a place in
the adult life. The idea of publishing such
a number appeared at the end of an international
research project coordinated by
Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Torun,
Poland called Youth in Transition Countries:
Innovative Potential, New Context, New
Problems, and New Challenges (and shortly,
Harmony project). The project gathered
selected ex-communist European and Asian
countries, which differ in historical background,
cultural tradition, and advancement
of systemic transformation. The analyses
were based on national and international
data and focused on describing youth’s life
situation, education, entry into adulthood,
and civil and political attitudes, in the socio-
economic context and in the local political
context where the processes take place. |
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