Abstract

FUICA-REBOLLEDO, Inti Fernando  and  VERGARA-ANDRADES, Constansa. Tangled youth. Approaches to contemporary chilean youth sociabilities. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.957-973. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.14205111115.

The high rate of students remaining in secondary school, the higher number of young people enrolling in higher education, the precariousness of public education and the high level of debt that families take on to fund their children’s education are the factors that constitute and create difficulties in the realities currently faced by young Chileans. In context it is necessary to highlight the different social spaces for young people in contemporary Chile, ranging from institutionalized to interstitial spaces that were identified based on the discourse analysis of the results of 23 focus groups. This article identifies certain continuity and changes in the ways that young people socialize, evidencing the search for autonomy that exists in their daily negotiations with institutions and the importance of relationships between peers in the construction of their identities.

Keywords : Urban youth; education; youth organizations; Youth sociability; institutionalized spaces; interstitial spaces.

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