Abstract

PINILLA SEPULVEDA, Victoria Eugenia  and  MUNOZ GONZALEZ, Germán. The privacy of the public sphere for young college students in Colombia. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.2, pp.769-800. ISSN 1692-715X.

This research project seeks to comprehend the various meanings of the "public sphere" and the relationship adult-young person for a group of college students, seen in their daily activities and the narratives of their experience. This is a hermeneutic study that analyzes narratives in the context of the dialectics of understanding and explanation proposed by Ricoeur. It approaches generational perspectives, adult-young person relationships and the public sphere from the point of view of sociology and political theory as proposed by Mannheim, Martin Criado, Corsten, Arendt, Habermas and Fraser. It also considers the theoretical aspects of narrative as an option that furthers understanding of college youth. The category of adult-young person relationships, more than showing their encounters, shows the dis-encounters between generations. These are characterized by a type of control which elicits in young people a sort of passive subordination or a manipulative management. The public sphere shows constant tensions between established forces in the family, in education and in the social context that impose behaviors, norms and values that constitute the established order and the possiblity of change that emerges in the face of the established order. In the midst of this coexistence of forces that appear and are opposed, young men and women prioritize the "self", the subjective over the comunal, in an urgent search for self-determination and a direct claim for recognition in the public sphere that relegates them to the periphery

Keywords : Youth; public sphere; adult-young person relationships; narrative; hermeneutics.

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