The transition from school into the labor world is marked by an increasing complexity that requires a theoretical-methodological approach capable of highlighting its analysis in terms of process. The transition is emphasized as a period of socialization and identity construction. This results, simultaneously, from the youths biographical transaction, which is the construction of an identity "for themselves" that involves the past, the experiences lived during the transition time and the projection of the possible future; and from the relational transaction, through which a young person constructs a positioning of the self in relation to the other. Biographical and longitudinal analysis are advocated in this paper, since the transition is a period in which young people continually (re)write their educational and professional paths which interconnect in time progression. This paper proposes longitudinal surveys for the study of objective trajectories and values the biographical interviews for the study of subjective trajectories.
Transition from school into the labor world; Identity construction; Objective and subjective trajectories