We explore the meaning-making practices of ‘little personal stories’ and ‘big societal stories’ in the imagined futures of 12- and 13-year-olds within Norway, known for its egalitarian ideals and welfare society. Using the concept ‘prospective narratives’, we explore these practices through the students' narrative world-making. The narratives connect the imagined future with gender and class variations related to larger social norms in the arenas of work and family. They demonstrate embodied and positioned cultural knowledge of the present, reflecting tensions between dominant social norms—‘big stories’—in terms of child-centred parenting, active work-life and egalitarian ideals across gender and class.

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年轻人期待：想象中的未来和挪威城市的规范紧张

我们在挪威以平等主义理想和福利社会而闻名的 12 岁和 13 岁儿童的想象未来中探索“个人小故事”和“社会大故事”的意义创造实践。使用“前瞻性叙事”的概念，我们通过学生的叙事世界创造来探索这些实践。叙事将想象的未来与与工作和家庭领域更大的社会规范相关的性别和阶级差异联系起来。他们展示了当下的具体化和定位的文化知识，反映了主导社会规范之间的紧张关系——“大故事”——在以儿童为中心的育儿、积极的工作生活和跨性别和阶级的平等理想方面。