SENTIDOS DE JUVENTUDE NA SOCIOLOGIA E NAS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DO BRASIL CONTEMPORÂNEO

Abstract

The paper analyzes the recent changes in the senses of youth in sociology and public policies in Brazil, with the aim of understanding the intellectual and institutional origins of these senses. Highlights the constitution of a paradigm, th e young man as a social subject, which appears in the core of a vast repertoire of ideas in public and academic space. Bibliographical sources indicated remarkable merges between actors and social, political and academic institutions that have the youth as its motto. Approaches some of the new theoretical frameworks and research problems on youth, after a brief mention of classical references in the sociology of youth. Among these new standards, those who treat youth in a second modernity or late modernity, where precisely the paradigm of youth as social subjects will emerge, which will well serve as the official discourse of supranational development agencies). It finishes this text with a digression about the danger of smuggling and intellectual accommodations in the field of social research on the youths, a humble call to critical and reflexiv e sociological imagination.

Keywords

• youth
• sociology of youth
• public policies
• social subject