IDENTITY(S) IN MOVEMENT: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND MULTILICITY IN YOUTH TRAJECTORIES

Abstract

This text is a theoretical essay that seeks to discuss issues related to the concept of identity or identity(ies), from the perspective of some authors of Sociology and Critical Social Psychology, directing to collective actions and youth trajectories. The elaborations on identity have as their main essential contribution the work of Alberto Melucci (2006), composing a referential theoretical scrutiny in the study carried out. When we reflect on the identity in movement and the multiplicity in youth trajectories, we perceive through the specialized and analyzed literature that we cannot deny the multiple contexts that young people use to make their school and work decisions and strategies. Youth trajectories are oscillating, non-linear, characterized by ruptures, a series of transformations and rearrangements experienced, as well as the very constitution of identities(ies). Young people experience situations of experimentation in their personal and professional trajectories in a movement that is circulating, fluid and uncertain.