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

Our Western society can be characterized conceptually from different notions according to the axes of observation in the analysis privilege. In the case of this reflective exercise, the main focus is the relationship between age classes, specifically youth and adulthood. From that perspective, we say that this is an adult-centered society, produced as a result of various economic and political processes that have materially strengthened this mode of societal organization and construction of sociocultural matrix, on a symbolic level, power recreation and play, imaginary building that directly affect relationships and identity processes of different social subjects. This reflection shows processes that have enabled the emergence and reproduction of an adultcentered society, read from the conditions and situations of young people.

This work intends to discuss an approach to the problem of identity in young men and women from popular sectors into three categories: age, class and gender, which would allow a central theme from which these subjects experience the condition of subordination. The ethnographic approach, the core of this discussion, will contrast the native sense of the subjects that are the subject of this discussion, certain cultural images that circulate today youth and finding in them a condensation of «social evils» that would be affecting and endangering the «normal» functioning of societies. Together, and against the subordinate question; can a subordinate subject have their say? The objective of this study intends to investigate the extent to which intellectuals are willing to listen to various forms of communication among the subjects in question.

This article will examine the issue of youth migration in Contemporary Chile and addresses the perception from «the youth» of otherness in the country, both from the point of view of the Chilean population and from the point of view immigrants. From sources of quantitative information, such as Census 2002 and CASEN 2006, Fifth and Sixth Series versions of the Youth Survey of Chile (2007 and 2010), and a set of qualitative background own production, as a result of discussion groups for young immigrants in Chile, results of in depth interviews with Peruvian immigrants and focus groups with people on Chilean immigrants.

The central hypothesis developed in this article is that the distrust of young people in others, and especially distrust of institutions, is the bedrock of social unrest that has been expressed in recent times on the streets of Chile and beyond national borders. Such discomfort is being articulated in an international youth movement called the «outraged». This article works with the partial results of the investigation «linkages between construction and deconstruction of social cohesion and confidence in young students in secondary education: guidelines for strengthening democracy», funded by Fondecyt.

Juvenile migration are central to the social and public agenda in Latin America. Its relevance is related to the extent that acquires mobility of young people and their family groups, especially in the countries of the Andean and Caribbean region. Juvenile migration are strongly intertwined with the social transformation processes that mark our days, such as globalization, the changing role of women and family groups, connectivity, reversibility, among others. Just as well, with more long-standing trends, as the reproduction of class inequalities, traditional patterns of gender and ethnic discrimination, which are embodied in the continuity of phenomena-labor integration, social-segment of young migrants in receiving societies. This article presents the first results of a research on the themes of youth and gender among youth involved/as in migration processes between Paraguay and Argentina. The study was conducted by a bi-national team, composed by the Vice-Ministry of Youth Paraguay and Youth Research Program at FLACSO Argentina, and received support and funding from UN Women.

This article proposes to explore the «subject positions» from which the young people approach the phenomenon construction of their political university action. For this purpose a meaningful sample is designed which is composed by students from different traditional universities in Valparaiso region, students were grouped according to their political actions: social action groups, leading groups and groups without action. A focus group is used as technology production of information and as data analysis techniques an approach taken from Jesus Ibañez’s discourse analysis. The results of the analysis allow to identify four subject positions: political, neopolitical, pragmatic postpolitical and philanthropic postpoliticial subjects with their respective discourse on the political university action.

The discussions referred to the young woman’s body pentecostal manifest under five fights of dichotomous: between traditional and modern (ruralurban and industrial-craft) class, between the proposed oligarchical and popular among the social and community, gender, between masculine and feminine, and generational, between adult and young. But the young woman protagonist appears as active in the various struggles of representations of the body. She is the one that resists, negotiate and decide between conflicting proposals, and ending stressing innovations relating to the body.

Traditionally, juvenile participation was restricted to the sphere of classical institutions and leftist political parties, which made the theme of democratic participation problematic. However, the juvenile actor of excellence was always the center of the student movement. To amplify the comprehension of these processes, it might be helpful to diminish the distance between school and young people, showing that apathy and disinterest can be a search for other educational contexts. This text, guided by the studies of researchers that have produced knowledge about juvenile participation, points to different profiles which amplify the traditional point of view of political party participation. It is the mission of teachers, especially History teachers, to be aware of such questions, understanding that youth pursues knowledge acquired in different educational spaces, which implies the renovation of content and educational methods. The theoretical mark of this reflection comes from the understanding of juvenile participation in the writings of Rosana Reguillo, Leslie Sema, José Antônio Pérez Islas, Regina Novais and Helena Abramo, and attempts to comprehend the different forms, content and processes of mobilization of contemporary youth. The concept of youths is based upon the sociological investigation of Marília Sposito, Mario Margulis, José Machado Pais and Alberto Melucci, with the objective of articulating the conceptual definitions of the youth with those of participation, and relating these discussions to school. The ideas collected here are meant to instigate discussions and debates between the youth and educators, looking to reframe the meanings attributed to collective juvenile actions found in contemporary society.

The article examines the construction of «masculinity» according to the interpretation that male students-fourth grade of Secondary Education (ESO) which they offer around the male gender identity. The study involved three schools of the Principality of Asturias (Spain). Effective use of a qualitative methodology, based on focus groups and individual interviews, conducted by the relevant discourse analysis. The results indicate that men respect the requirements to develop a normative male-hegemonic view on masculinity, and displayed in the following indicators: heterosexuality, exaltation of the body as an active agent and, finally, emotional silence. This data shows the prevalence of gender stereotyping in young men, justifying the importance to pedagogically intervene in this area.