The Neet. the Lost Bet

Abstract

AbstractIn the present scenario, education plays a very strategic role. It is an investment with a postponed productivity, unfortunately uncertain, but necessary. It is, especially today, an investment both on the personal and on the social level, a necessary bet. Especially in this period when the occupation is linked to the capability of handling your own flexibility, the outcomes of the personal fields depend especially on the quantity and quality of personal, cultural, economic and social means which are already at every person's disposal. With the following risk to start a widespread process of social immobilization and temporary occupation of a larger group of new poor people.The an acronym for Not Educational, Employment or Training are, potential, some of these new poor. They are less qualified people or however they are not ready to improve their own competences according to a life long learning plan in order to respond to the requirements of a market that calls for a competition upwards. Neet risk strongly to face a situation of structural unemployment which will force them to a condition of irreversibly weak people, with following expenses as lack of working forces both on a personal level but also on a economic and social level.Within this worrying and dangerous phenomenon, women have a particular weakness, that is a result of traditional gender representation and specific labor market characteristics. This analysis is focused on Apulian female Neet, on their school career and the educational idea, on their strategies of seeking a job, and on their future perspectives. And it aimed to observe different types of female Neet, according to the complexity of this phenomenon.Keywords: education system, job market, women1. Betting on educationIn the present scenery, where job crisis shows a structural character, education represents not only a means to face the current changed setting, but the only strategy to do it. Even though it is not free from the limits and paradoxes already introduced by Bordieu and by all the French conflicting school1, it could allow, on certain conditions, to go beyond social destinies, in an attributable way, by granting spaces or, at least, glimmers of acquisition. Education plays a very strategic role and shows itself, especially today, as an investment both on the personal and on the social level, a necessary bet. It is an investment with a postponed productivity, unfortunately uncertain, but necessary. The individual social position is strongly influenced by the education level, «by the amount of information and knowledge that people can create and exchange within a web not, where they are placed» (Ferri 2011, 142). Especially in this period when the occupation is linked to the capability of handling your own flexibility (Ceri 2003), by making it an opportunity of change and professional and personal enrichment rather than a threat against the possibility to plan consistent professional careers and existential walks. The match to play with this incertitude becomes different according to the stake you have got when you start playing. It can strongly interfere with personal «chances of life» (Dahrendorf 1981, 38 sgg.). The outcomes of the personal fields depend especially on the quantity and quality of personal, cultural, economic and social means which are already at every person's disposal, with the following risk to start a widespread process of social immobilization and temporary occupation of a larger group of new poor people. Inside the society of knowledge and learning, all the possessed competences and abilities become some of the frontiers of the new disparities and they can interfere strongly with, and sometimes determine, people's job career and walk of life.The theme of competences becomes central in the scenery of strategies in the medium and long term, which are able to help people to manage their job careers in times of flexibility. …