Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The discontinuous historical trajectory of interventions and research on rural youth in Chile over the last sixty years is examined in order to analyze the development of the subject in the country. It can be seen that the topic has been marked by different socio-political contexts and development strategies, and that different actors have participated in each period, showing a diversity of approaches and interests. Despite this, the country has not been able to develop a comprehensive policy on rural youth, and external visions that have excluded young people themselves from these processes have predominated. After the issue experienced great dynamism in the 1990s, the current temperate situation may lead to new reflections and perspectives that incorporate the lessons learned from the past.

Preliminary results of a research that analyzes the centrality of consumer objects in the individuation processes of adolescents are presented. Some dynamics that can be recognized in the life stories of eight adolescents from Santiago de Chile are described, such as the search for personalization through the consumption of serial and fashionable objects and the consequent potentialities-limitations of the location in the social space. The subjects themselves reveal the permanent reconstruction of the stories, which moves simultaneously between affiliation to imaginary meanings embodied in specific reference groups, and opposition to others, which are embodied in rejected groups.

This article provides a review of the modernization of Chilean society in relation to its effects on the family, with the intention of contributing to the identification of aspects that participate in the conditioning process of two generations of the twentieth century. This approach was carried out paying special attention to the role of the State and the relationships between couples and between parents and children.

he purpose of this paper is to describe some inequalities observed in secondary education in the Province of Concepción. More specifically, it shows that: a) there are inequalities not only between municipalized and private education but also within municipalized education. b) Significant differences are not always observed between private and municipalized education in terms of the possibilities of access to higher education. c) There is a strong migration of students from municipalized education between the municipalities of the Province of Concepción. However, this migration does not occur from municipal to private education.

This article talks about the emergence of graffiti and the youth culture around it in Mexico City. To do so, I resort to different generational images that have served as icons of youth and the way of being young. In particularizing this youth culture, I take up images of socio-cultural context that allow us to understand the character of graffiti. I present a brief historical account of American and Mexican graffiti that takes New York City and later Mexico City as nodes of production. Finally, the different voices of the members of graffiti collectives harmonize with the emergence of graffiti.

The present article is aimed at understanding the diverse cultural experiences from leftwing male and female young people during Unidad Popular period, on the basis of three analysis axes: mass media, the production and consumption of music, and a more private sphere linked to their understanding of sexuality and marijuana consumption. Through the analyzed sources, including magazines, press, audiovisual documents and interviews from the time, we problematize towards the construction of youth schemes or prototypes made up a dual vision of culture: on the one hand, a young individual who is not interested in the country and attracted to the hippie movement; on the other hand, a young individual who is highly committed to the social and political problems of Chile. However, we state that the left-wing young culture worked in this research accounts for cultural experiences, defined as the diverse proposals and alternatives which young individuals gravitated towards, that are characterized by the attractiveness of the Hippie movement, the Nueva Canción Chilena movement, the new and groundbreaking ways of living sexuality and marijuana consumption. All these elements configured a part of the revolutionary youth identity, as they designated themselves.

The article analyses the identity construction of young people in Nordelta, from the study of their social trajectories, their lives in a gated community and the incidence of mobility in their daily socio-cultural practices. This new study converses to the youth-related research field, focusing on upper-middle class young people, particularly residents of Nordelta gated community, considered as a paradigm in the north zone of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Argentina. Perceptions towards zigzagging trajectories, presence of stigmatizations, mobility analyses and time usage strategies in relation to long distances are shown.

This article presents the general findings obtained from a qualitative research on the construction of memory on the recent past in Chile. On the basis of the analysis of the way that television fiction series produced in the context of commemorating 40 years of the military coup are received by three generations of TV viewers, it is discussed the way they trigger different readings of the past portrayed on them according to each viewer’s experience. These results show a prominence of the «intergenerational reading» encouraged by series from a critical, active viewing.

The purpose of the following article is to know, to discern and to describe the habits, influences and means of cultural consumption of freshmen from the Faculty of Economics at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. A survey consisting of single and multiple-choice questions was conducted, showing that the consumption of music and series is encouraged at home, being the former their favorite cultural product. These products are mainly consumed on the internet and on their mobile phones and they are largely from the United States. The most direct influences for its consumption are from parents and friends.