Collective action and juvenile political practices

Abstract

This article discusses over how social sciences have approached the relation between diagnoses on epoch changes or «post» conditions and present political perspectives among juvenile partnerships. The idea is to catch how the ways of juvenile partnership during the decades of the change of the century have been interpretated and how the cracks or continuancies referred to the dynamics and horizons of the public policy have been perceived. The text deepens in the European thinking of influence in the juvenile studies in Latin America and the stage of the contingency in Mexico and Chile, reason for which the volumes of outstanding authors are critically reviewed. Under the light of such academic discussion, the considerations of the article turn around interpretive theories and their diagnoses over «kindred», individualism or «new juvenile politics», all of these theories which transcend youth matters and involve global senses of the political construction of contemporary societies.