Based on the literary exposition of the social meaning of the aging process, this innovative text combines a study of at least three dimensions of the topic: adolescence as a postponement of social functions, the relational formation of identity through the introjection of a social role, and the alienation indissociable with becoming part of the adult world. Alternating between descriptive account and analysis, while citing a series of contemporary events, the work maintains its freshness by sketching a phenomenology of the lived world, focusing on the specific meaning of professional careers under modern capitalism.
Aging; Adolescence; Identity; Social time; Alienation