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Zeynep Demirci
Education for Citizenship and
Youth in France
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Journal of Youth Researches • July 2017 • 5(12) • 144-152
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 19 June 2017
Accepted
| 29 June 2017
A N A LY S I S / R E S E A R C H
* Research Assistant, Dumlupınar University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Kütahya,
Zeynep Demirci
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Introduction
When we talk about citizenship education, first of all, it’s important to emphasize that the
concept of citizenship has a complicated and multifaceted expression. In the Council of
Europe there is no single definition of citizen (citoyen) and citizenship (citoyenneté) and
these concepts remain uncertain (Bodeving, 2009: 4). In its broadest terms, political citi-
zenship expresses the rights and duties of an individual, social citizenship, merit and soli-
darity within the community, cultural citizenship, cultural heritage awareness, and econo-
mic citizenship is related to the business world (Bodeving, 2009: 8). Citizenship, however,
is also defined as a social cluster that also expresses the roles and acquisitions that make
possible to defend the interests of the group to which individual belongs, in general, in
terms of responsibilities and obligations, with civil entrepreneurship (Chanthalangsy et al.,
2016: 23). So being a citizen means being a partner in various responsibilities. As it turns
out, the civic mechanism provides a way to act with an organized social group, belonging
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