Leisure activities and social aptitudes of young people moving into post-adolescence

This study is based on a longitudinal panel survey regarding the social integration of young people after exiting the French school system. One of the basic targets of this study is the correlation of young people's relational network and the forms of sociability they adopt in post-adolescence and during the transitional period leading to adulthood. In this paper, we shall be looking more specifically at the structures and development, between the first two waves of the survey, of the activities pursued by young people within their relational network. We will show that each successive break, with the past (leaving high school, setting up as a couple, getting a job, etc.) translates into a reduction in the volume of group leisure activities and a re-orientation towards individual or personal activities. We will also show that this reorganization is not independent of the relational network or of the framework in which they function.