The aim of this article is to show how young people in Italy deal with the structural injunction to become individuals. While there is a substantial number of works on how institutions converge in promoting individualization and an ‘entrepreneurial self’, in this article we investigate how young people give shape and meaning to social relations in the framework of the injunction to become autonomous entrepreneurs of themselves. The research presented here was conducted in Milan, from 2017 to 2019. We carried out 40 in-depth interviews with young people in order to explore (1) how individualization as a structural historical process becomes an ongoing accomplishment, a part of the ‘common sense’ that people use to interpret their everyday experience; and (2) the extent to which individualization and individualism intertwine and conflict with each other.

本文的目的是展示意大利的年轻人如何应对结构性禁令以成为个人。虽然有大量关于制度如何融合促进个性化和“创业自我”的著作，但在本文中，我们调查了年轻人如何在禁令的框架内塑造社会关系并使其具有意义，以成为他们自己的自主创业者。此处介绍的研究于 2017 年至 2019 年在米兰进行。我们对年轻人进行了 40 次深度访谈，以探讨 (1) 作为结构性历史过程的个性化如何成为一项持续的成就，成为“共同生活的一部分”人们用来解释他们的日常经验的感觉；