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

The present contribution deals with the meaning of the feminine leadership from a masculine perspective. By using a qualitative approach, opened interviews were developed to understand the meaning that men assign to the feminine leadership. The speeches were analyzed on the basis of the Strauss/Corbin-theory (2003). The results show that men agree with the changes experienced by the gender rolls. In a specific way men agree that women need to have more societaleconomic opportunities, that it is necessary to have more equitable relationship inside the family. However within this positive framework, emerging tensions configure a dissatisfaction of the masculinity that in turn impact the intimate sphere questioning the present day inter-gender relationship. Finally, there is a men group with more progressive speeches which venture towards a positive evaluation of the women capacities and their assumed public space-rolls. However this positive evaluation is vigilant, ambivalent, and influenced by a perception of confidence/uncertainty, efficiency/inefficiency of the effective societal contribution that women are able to reach.

Family life is highly valued among Chilean young people. They visualize their future living in family with children and generally married. This article explores young people’s ideas and projects regarding the family. It highlights the prioriy of children in the making of a family as a perception as well as a project. Marriage is in a secondary place, however, it is not less important; most of the young persons visualize themselves married in a future, but each time more often, through a previous period of living together. The information comes mainly from a representative enquiry of youngsters between 15 and 30 years old, carried out in Santiago during year 2004 with the purpose of studying the experiences, opinion and family projects of the young people. The information is also enlighted with textual quotes from youngsters interviewed thoroughly or that joined focal groups. In addition, in each point, the results of such enquiry are complemented with data which allows to put in perspective the foundings of the investigation using other statistical information mainly the Chilean Population Census of year 1992 and year 2002, as well as United Nations international statistics too.

The urban hip-hop culture of the young people of Iquique is represented as a present and relevant phenomenon, as a liberation of juvenile consciences, placing itself in the contemporary Chile as an emergent anti cultural movement. It carries the importance that inscribes itself among the academic directions as a moving phenomenon, in constant re-interpretation and definition. It is presented as a part of new urban juvenile associations among a rational emphatic opposed to the globalization of social activities and dynamics. This reflection relates three central social and academic subjects. On one side it represent the emergency of new ways of urban juvenile association. It takes us in a necessary discussion over the techniques and methods of approaching to present juvenile dynamics and lastly, it positions Latin America as part of an specific historical and social context. This context delimits the present social science.

The submitted work seeks to investigate the political culture promoted in high schools. Further to emphasize the importance of political socializing of the young, we are interested in analizing the ideas of justice that are put on for discussion as well as the disciplinary political systems and current advice for common life. For this purpose, we propose an analysis of the youth and authority notions exposed in the sanctioned common life normatives of the City of Buenos Aires and the Province of Buenos Aires. Lastly, we hereby submit the case of the high school in the City of Buenos Aires in order to get nearer to the implementation process of the new normative as well as the perceptions and ways of trouble shooting. Along the work we hope to show the settlement of a school culture and a way of thinking of the young, who impose conditions to their attitudes at school, although the modifications that are intended to be carried out.

Different studies referred to the young, have been adopting the insight of trayectories as an entry point to the phenomenon of the young. The strength of this insight is that it allows to join in a same analysis process, the structural, educational and working extents that act on the social construction process of the young. The application of this insight has been of great importance in order to understand the conditions of the young in European countries. Nevertheless, in Chile there have been few research initiatives intending this kind of approach. The present article tries to apply the trayectories insight to the analysis of a specific sector of the young: that which assist to the educational institutions belonging to municipal public education. The purpose is to try to describe the trayectory of these young people facing in a integrated manner, their structural or origin features, their school stretches and exploration of the different ways with which they project their futures on the educational, laboral and family grounds.

The following text, displays the components of theory the production of ages. Following Pierre Bordieu modulations, the text submits the foundations of the age field, exposes the sub fields on which it supports and designs the agents acting in the age field. The article postulates this construction as the foundation of the social gerontological study.

In this article we study how transitions occur from childhood in poor urban areas. Recognizing that the study of transitions has been focused on two age groups, on one hand, the analysis of the transition from youth to adulthood and on the other, from adulthood to old age (Blanco, 2001), we have found a gap in the studies of transitions from childhood in Latin American. Considering this, in this work we study what characteristics assume the same in poor areas. Also, changes and continuities in the vital trajectories (work, education and marriage) of a group of former children —interviewed during 2004 and 2008 and interviewed again in 2013— are analyzed. Today, they are young and live in the city of La Plata/Buenos Aires. It aims to recognize the particularities assume transitions from childhood in areas affected by structural poverty, inequality and job insecurity: Under what circumstances are those who viewed spend their childhood in a doubly disadvantaged, because of their poor condition and child workers? What events show the transitions from childhood? How this transition is experienced? What particularities does it have? Is a direct passage from childhood to adulthood developed? or Is it possible to consider youth as a shorter period in life of those who live in poor conditions? This work takes the life course approach —which considers that transitions are especially vulnerable periods in the life experience of individuals— and uses a qualitative methodological strategy based on prospective diachronic information

This work presents an análisis of the discourse over real and ideal stereotypes created by young students of the D. F. related to gender. The investigation is placed among a bigger study regarding the analysis of the inter cultural competences in these subjects. Starting on the realization of life stories and argumental groups, the presence of gender stereotypes will be analysed among young people discourse in order to appoint how far those stereotypes help or impede the disposition towards the difference. This will help us to reach a gender concept as internal boundary, this is, as a negotiation space and/or conflict of the realition between genders, which can be understood as inter cultural relations. The results are tentative and are based in the application of four life stories and two groups of discussion. Generalization is not intended, rather to open reflexive currents and subsequent analysis.