Educational and professional trajectories of the youth: research concepts
The paper examines theoretical representations and concepts that allow studying adequately transitions of young people between positions in the system of education and professional status of adult on the base of the works of western and Russian sociologists.The concepts witch describe longitudinal presence of youth in educational and professional systems are discussed from the point of view of the biographical approach, the study of life course, the research of the educational and professional trajectories. There are elucidated the evolution of the concepts and their interpretations in the researches of the contemporary authors.