Youth markers: Complexity of ages

Authors

  • Dina Krauskopf Universidad del Desarrollo

Abstract

During the few last years, the Chilean and Latin American societies have witnessed the several significant interrelated transformations relating to epochal changes, the dominant socioeconomic model and the evolution of the paradigms of the policies influencing on the approach of youth; all these considerations leading to understand youth as the biographical stage expressing the transformations the individuals ‘societies are underlying. The present article tackles the problem of the elements to be taken into account in order to identify young people in the design of research, programs and policies. As the Proyecto Anillo’s research team, we have stated the need of searching for “markers” that allow to organize the data collection, developing a main specific marker: age.

Keywords:

juvenile stage, youth markers, life course, identitary differentiation, youth citizenship, invisibility

Author Biography

Dina Krauskopf, Universidad del Desarrollo

Magíster en Psicología Clínica, Universidad Iberoamericana, Costa Rica. Académica Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile. E-Mail: dina.krauskopf@gmail.com