Abstract
Research was conducted out on two samples of young people ; a sample of 2,500 pupils in the final year of highschool in the Nord-Pas de Calais area in France, and a sample of 500 young people in search of occupational insertion. The results observed on both samples appear rather similar, with a few slight differences. Young people favor values centered on individual comfort (family, work, money), they place importance on human relations (leisure activities, socializing with friends) and commitments of a social (joining associations, syndicates or political groups) or religious type attract them very little. The centrality of work is real among young people and is all the more asserted as they have very few job perspectives. For young people, work has first an instrumental function of survival ; it then allows them to satisfy their needs of personal achievement and of relations with others, whereas the social utility of work towards society in general is very little valued. Overall, the results suggest that young people show a rather self-centered vision of the world and that they give importance to individual rather than collective values.
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