La trasmissione imperfetta - fasopo

6 ABSTRACT
La “gioventù” risulta un periodo in cui l‟individuo è “plasmato
dall‟esterno”. In primis dalla “società adulta” che tende a costruire persone
che siano in linea con i “modelli di adulto” ritenuti positivi dai suoi membri.
In secondo luogo da quegli “altrove”, sempre più lontani in seguito alle
ancora recenti rivoluzioni mediatiche, che tendono colonizzare
l‟immaginario dei giovani, maggiori recettori delle innovazioni. L‟analisi
della delicata dinamica tra riproduzione sociale e trasformazione permette
dunque di interpretare la diffusione della categoria “giovane” come uno dei
più importanti indicatori della velocità del mutamento socioculturale di uno
specifico contesto.
THE IMPERFECT TRANSMISSION.
KNOWLEDGES AND IMMAGINATION AMONG MALE YOUTH IN RURAL
KWAZULU, SOUTH AFRICA.
The cathegory of “youth” has became, in the last twenty years,
particularly important for the debate on African societies. It is connected as
well as the reflection on education and nation building, to the strategies used
by local actor to cope with the sensitive dynamics between sociocultural
reproduction and social change. This work is based on an ethnographic
research conducted in rural KwaZulu-Natal, specifically in KwaMashabane
(Umhalbuyalingana Local Municipality). The broad topic concerns the
practices used for knowledge transmission between different generations of
men. In order to produced an holistic description of this phenomena,
different objects are analyzed such as the socially recognized models of
adulthood and their supporting ideologies, the social interaction between
young and adults and peer groups and the social imaginaries.
The “youth” is a period in which individual is “shaped” by external
forces. Firstly by the “adult society” that produce new member based on the
social recognized model of adulthood. Secondly, by that “elsewhere”, that is
becoming increasingly distant as result of still recent media revolutions.
Images and symbols conveyed by the media tend to colonize the