Purpose

This article aims to explore the dominant normative patterns that establish the timing and order of life events, determining the desirable life strategies for working-class youth in modern Russia.

Design/methodology/approach

Exploring the interrelationship between new working-class studies and life-course studies, this research combines the consideration of life course as a structurally organised integrity with a phenomenological perspective on the study of life strategies. The empirical basis of research consists of a survey of 1532 young working-class representatives living in the Ural Federal District of Russia and biographical in-depth interviews with 31 of them.

Findings

The study resulted in persisting significance and values of traditional life-course structures while showing that the current social conditions do not allow for this life strategy to be fulfilled. Young workers choose adaptation and survival life strategies that restrict the realisation of their professional and cultural potential. The obtained data have confirmed the presence of some worldwide tendencies, such as the dispersion of events during transition to adulthood, a combination of schooling and full-time work and an earlier career start of working-class representatives.

Originality/value

The sequencing and timing of life-course events of Russian working-class youth is an original research topic. The present study proposes and substantiates the notion of the new working class and criteria for its definition.

中文翻译：

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俄罗斯新工人阶级青年的人生历程模式

目的

本文旨在探索确定生活事件的时间和顺序的主要规范模式，确定现代俄罗斯工人阶级青年的理想生活策略。

设计/方法/方法

为了探索新的工人阶级研究与生命过程研究之间的相互关系，本研究将生命过程作为一种结构上有组织的完整性的考虑与对生命策略研究的现象学视角相结合。研究的经验基础包括对居住在俄罗斯乌拉尔联邦区的1532名年轻工人阶级代表进行的调查，以及对其中31名青年进行的传记式深度访谈。

发现

该研究结果表明传统生活过程结构具有持久的意义和价值，同时表明当前的社会条件无法实现这种生活策略。年轻工人选择适应和生存生活策略，这限制了他们的专业和文化潜力的实现。所获得的数据证实了全球范围内的某些趋势，例如过渡到成年期间的事件分散，学校教育和全职工作的结合以及工人阶级代表较早的职业生涯。

创意/价值

俄罗斯工人阶级青年人生历程事件的顺序和时间安排是一个原始的研究主题。本研究提出并证实了新工人阶级的概念及其定义标准。