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The societies of EU-Europe, in which young people and young adults live today, can be characterized as “modern-modernizing” societies. They are predominantly service economies in which accelerated structural and technological changes give rise to fast social modernization processes. Independent of continuing differences between North and South as part of this trend to a second modernity, it may he pointed out that most of these societies are characterized by a growing complexity that results in difficulties and insecurities for different groups of the population, especially for young people and young adults.
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Bendit, R. (1999). Youth-Life and the process of leaving home in Europe. In: Bendit, R., Gaiser, W., Marbach, J.H. (eds) Youth and Housing in Germany and the European Union. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11895-4_2
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