年轻人生活中的结构和能动性将生命过程中可能存在的能动性和结构结合在一起，从而否定了年轻人是他们生活的唯一主人的观念，也否定了他们的社会命运完全不由他们掌控的观点。
“我是怎么来的？”这是年轻人一直在问自己的问题，也是青年研究人员经常问的问题。没有简单而单一的答案。一方面，被讲述的生活和他们的解读，另一方面，可能有“自己做”或“社会决定论”的基本理念，或者更准确、更频繁地说，两者的结合。
这一系列作品构成了一幅关于如何理解青年传记和轨迹的综合地图，它质疑并重塑了关于青年研究在理解人们如何处理机遇和约束方面的角色和责任的讨论，并有助于逃避弗隆和卡特梅尔所认定的“后现代认识论谬误”，年轻人发现自己对集体失败或不可避免负有责任。因此，它可以吸引学生、研究人员和教授、青年工作者以及所有为青年人工作的人。
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives: Theory, Methods and Agendas
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands.
‘How did I get here?’ This is a question young people have always asked themselves and is often asked by youth researchers. There is no easy and single answer. The lives that are told, on one hand, and their interpretation, on the other, may have the underlying idea of ‘own doing’ or the idea of ‘social determinism’ or, more accurately and frequently, a combination of the two.
This collection constitutes a comprehensive map on how to make sense of youth’s biographies and trajectories, it questions and reshapes the discussion on the role and responsibility of youth studies in the understanding of how people juggle opportunities and constraints, and contributes to escaping what Furlong and Cartmel identified as the “epistemological fallacy of late modernity”, in which young people find themselves responsible for collective failures or inevitabilities. It can thus interest students, researchers and professors, youth workers and all of those who work for and with young people.
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