Transiciones a la adultez en la Ciudad de México.

Abstract

This work presents some advances from a doctoral research in progress whose objective is to analyse meanings, timmings and paths of transition to adulthood from two different generations in Mexico City. Defining generation as a group that shares same events and experiences, in this work two generations have been located from their same experiences among their transition to adulthood. The first one grew between the decades 1960 and 1970 in Mexico City under the following context: an import substitution economic model that prompted the creation of jobs and the inclusión of large population strips to urban labor markets; the grew of urbanization in Mexico due to migratory flows, specially rural-urban flows; consolidation and growth of urban middle class; and the growth and expansion of educational system. On the other hand, second generation made its transition during the 1990s, and first years of the 2000s, under different conditions such as: changes in economic model, wich brought consecuences such as flexbilization and precariousness in labor markets; the participation in globalization process; the increase in inequalities between social classes and their unequal inclusion at labor markets and education as a social mobility mechanism; changes in meanings and expectations related to transition to adulthood; and increase in complexity in this process compared to the first generation. The main question seeks to know the imapct of these different contexts in the transition to adulthood between both generations. For it, both contexts will be compared. Then, the most significant changes between generations will be presented.