Social Change and Individual Freedoms for Tunisian Youth: What is the Relationship?

Volume 8|Issue 32| |Theme of the Issue

Abstract

This study monitors the diverse manifestations of individual freedom among the Tunisian youth, based on the results of both desk and field research. These manifestations can be dealt with from three angles: independence from the community and the family, the development of the individualization trend in the relationship with religion, and the growth of individual sovereignty over the body, especially with regard to sexuality. An analysis of the results of these studies shows that the yearning for independence and individual success has become a general phenomenon for young people in cities, as well as in the countryside. The emergence of the individual also manifests in the youth clinging to freedom in dealing with religion, and the spread of liberal sexuality patterns that reflect the extent of their attachment to ownership over their bodies.

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Professor of Sociology, Higher Institute of Human Sciences, Tunis El Manar University and Vice-President of the International Association of French-speaking Sociologists. His interests focus on the youth and adolescence and following the revolution he participated in several research programs that dealt with the relationship between the youth and the state and institutions.

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