Abstract

Starting with deep social and economic transformations that in the younger generation have made the transitions of life more versatile, the essay, using Grounded Theory approach, is concerned with how young people, observed in two different moments (young adolescents and young adults), make up and break up the daily life, move within it and contribute to the construction of social reality around them. Utilizing the categories times, negotiations, styles of resilience, we analyse several facets that characterize the lifeworlds of young people and the strategies through which modulate their own choices to build the tran- sitions of life, with particular reference to the work.