Abstract
This article summarizes an explorative study of biographical time perspectives of disadvantaged young people in a state of uncertainty about their future due to a discontinuous transition to vocational training and employment. Based on the time concepts of George H. Mead and Alfred Schutz, which are briefly introduced, the author analyses the process of biographical time structuring and describes the difficulties of establishing a stable and future-oriented time perspective. The article concludes with placing the findings into the context of discourses about changing values, postmodernity, individualization and the dissolution of modernity and the issue of prolonged youth.
