‘학생’과 ‘노동’으로 고찰한 청소년 정체성 - 청소년소년 『곁에 있다는 것』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of the inversion of the meaning of youth in the performance of speech, which used to refer to youth as a student, and its effect. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to examine the reality of identity as a ‘generation preparing for the future’ and ‘a generation that needs to learn something’ contained in the language of students. Specifically, I tried to define the identity of youth created by the modern system by visualizing ‘youth labor’, an invisible area of youth that does not converge as a student. To approach this phenomenon in a historical context, the antagonistic relationship between youth labor and student status was examined by analyzing youth labor in Kim Jung-mi’s youth novel 『Being by your side』. Looking at cases from the youth labor of women working in factories in the 1970s and 1980s to the recent part-time work of youth, the identity of workers in the early days of youth workers was replaced by students and changed to part-time workers, and the tasks of youth were changed to that of students. The identity of the youth was defined as the existence of a minor while replacing them with the task of studying or entrance exams. It was excluded from the independent self-awareness that youth can acquire through labor or from the identity of youth as a current economic entity. The identity of youth as a ‘student’ in modern society cannot be overlooked or denied. It is an undeniable fact that identity of student is one element of identity of youth. However, it is also necessary to think of the presentness of the independent self-awareness shown through youth workers as a possibility to constitute the identity of boys. After all, the current identity of youth is a narrow definition created by adult power in modern society.