Italian Youth in the 1960s and the Preconditions for Building a Generation

The structural and cultural transformations that Italian society underwent between the mid-1950s and the 1960s had a tremendous impact on the social conditions of young people. Although the anthropological mutation (Pasolini) involved the whole of society, young people were particularly touched by it because of their unfixed and uncertain social position. In this article it will be argued that during the 1960s young Italian people constituted themselves first in a sociological and then in a political generation as a consequence of the interaction between the different factors that will be analyzed in the text.