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Are they too young to decide on their future? Agency capacity and educational social mobility in young professional people from universidad de antioquia

Authors

  • Víctor Guerra Zabala Universidad de Antioquia
  • Carlos Duque Mejía Universidad de Antioquia
  • Edinson Brand Monsalve Universidad de Antioquia
Vol. 28 No. 54 (2020): Diciembre

Abstract

The present work brings up an analysis on the motivations behind the educational social mobility processes in a group of eighty young graduates from Universidad de Antioquia, based on a survey about university access, study years and graduation. It is mainly concluded that age is not a hindrance to either build a life project or to generate actions from which young people consciously fulfill their desires through university education; instead, higher education gives them satisfaction, evidencing its positive impact on them in spite of the difficulties to access to it.

Keywords:

higher education, young people, agency capacity

Author Biographies

Víctor Guerra Zabala, Universidad de Antioquia

Sociólogo egresado de la Universidad de Antioquia, estudiante de la Maestría en Desarrollo Regional del Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), participante del Grupo de investigación: Redes y Actores Sociales Universidad de Antioquia. Correo electrónico: vguerra.mdr2020@colef.mx

Carlos Duque Mejía, Universidad de Antioquia

Sociólogo egresado de la Universidad de Antioquía, participante del Grupo de investigación: Redes y Actores Sociales Universidad de Antioquia. Correo electrónico: carturo.duque@udea.edu.co

Edinson Brand Monsalve, Universidad de Antioquia

Candidato a doctor en Filosofía, docente de la Universidad de Antioquia, participante del Grupo de investigación: Redes y Actores Sociales Universidad de Antioquia. Correo electrónico: edinson.brand@udea.edu.co

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Guerra Zabala, V., Duque Mejía, C., & Brand Monsalve, E. (2020). Are they too young to decide on their future? Agency capacity and educational social mobility in young professional people from universidad de antioquia. Última Década, 28(54), 114–138. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/61495
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