Orientare alla scelta nella società dell'incertezza tra riflessività e responsabilità

The article offers an interpretation of guidance process in a sociological perspective. From this point of view, it’s clear that any approach to guidance assumed a specific conception of the linkage between individual and society. Starting form this consideration the article delineates what characterizes guidance process in the post-modern society: a society more and more fragmented and uncertain, in which the subject seems to have increasing freedom of movement and choice. In so doing, the article proposes a new guidance approach (“educational guidance”), considered as an appropriate aid to help the subject in making his choices: choices who are both coherent with self realization and responsibility; that is to say, choices who keep in count both the social context to which the subject himself belongs to and the relational dynamics implied in the construction personal and social identity.