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TAGUENCA BELMONTE, Juan Antonio. The Concept of Youth. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2009, vol.71, n.1, pp.159-190. ISSN 2594-0651.

This article refutes the theoretical validity of age range as a category for defining youth. The author considers two central axes: the youth-adult contrast, which assumes two ideal types of youth: the self-constructed kind and the one constructed by adults. The other axis comprises three categories: segmentation, culture and the world of life. The first serves to regard youth as a form of rebellion against adult institutions, and the second to see it as a sub-culture opposing dominant culture, and the third to establish the consequences for the society of a self-constructed youth.

Palabras llave : youth; adults; segmentation; culture; world of life.

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