Influence of student movement in the redefinition of subjectivities of first generation Chilean university students and their parents: A review from the reflexive modernity of Anthony Giddens

Abstract

In this article, a qualitative research is carried out analyzing the discourse of 16 young chilean students who are the first generation of their family to enter university (FGS), investigating the influence that the student movement generates in the configuration of their respective subjectivities.

Research shows that FGS forge a lonely path in the college admissions process, in with they must redefine themselves between the narrative of an adverse past and a hopeful present subject to many alternatives. The student movement in turn, particulary from  its demands in the feminist May 2018 and this impact on the social outbreak of 2019, exerts an influence on the subjetivity of the FGS who criticize the adversities that hindered their entry into highter education, as well as their self-perception forged in the past. Finally, the intersubjetive negotiation of the FGS with their parents around the student movement becomes complex and in some casesredefines the biographical chronicles of the latter.

In accordance with the sociological perspective of Anthony Giddens, who has worked on identity conformations in recent modernity, it is concluded that the FGS interviewed faceconstant rethinking of their subjetivities, a process interpreted from this theorical perspective as self-reflexive revisions of their chronicle of the self. Based on this, a tendency to self-management of life projects is noted in the FGS, wich turns the search for existencial orientations that were once sought in a heteronormative way in society inward.