This article concerns young adults’ institutional encounters with professionals in the context of youth services. The encounters are analyzed as institutional social control — the practices and mechanisms that steer young people’s conduct in accordance with the normative order. We make visible young adults’ acts of everyday resistance as they negotiate, problematize, and challenge aspects of institutional social control. The data consist of 17 life-course interviews with young adults aged 18 to 24 who visited youth shelters organized by the Finnish Red Cross. Participants expressed criticism of the normative expectations and the categorizing and controlling practices that they encountered. However, there is a danger that in the institutional encounters, their acts of everyday resistance are not acknowledged as political agency; instead, stereotypical notions strengthen the interpretation of the young adults as problematic or in need of protection. This lack of recognition may contribute to increased vulnerability in the young people the institutions are intended to support.

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使自己可见的日常抗拒：年轻人与青年服务机构社会控制的谈判

本文关注年轻人在青年服务背景下与专业人士的机构接触。这些遭遇被分析为制度性社会控制——按照规范秩序引导年轻人行为的实践和机制。我们让年轻人在协商、质疑和挑战制度性社会控制的各个方面时的日常抵抗行为可见。数据包括对 18 至 24 岁的年轻人的 17 次生命历程访谈，他们访问了芬兰红十字会组织的青年庇护所。参与者对他们遇到的规范期望以及分类和控制实践表示批评。然而，在机构遭遇中，他们的日常抵抗行为有可能不被承认为政治机构。反而，陈规定型观念强化了对青年人的解释，认为他们有问题或需要保护。这种缺乏认可可能会导致机构旨在支持的年轻人的脆弱性增加。