Abstract
By way of focusing on two partly opposing temporalizations found in different social practices of young persons out of work, some central aspects of the relation between individualism and linear time are discussed, in particular in relation to the question of self-identity. It is concluded that if linear time should have any analytical value in the study of late modernity it should refer to the social practices and ideology of individualism and neither to the orchestrating of collectives nor to unidirectionality and irreversibility.
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