Everything changes, it all stays the same. Young people, social class, and Politics in Europe

The thesis addresses the issue of political inequality among young Europeans. Focusing on class inequalities, the thesis sheds light on the paths through which socio-economic inequalities among young people are reproduced from generation to generation and finally reflected in widely differentiated and increasingly unequal forms of political activism. The thesis aims at offering: 1) A theoretical contribution, by means of a renewed discussion on the legacy of class; 2) A methodological contribution, adopting sophisticated statistical techniques to disentangle mechanisms of reproduction of socio-economic and political inequality.