Gladys Mathieu. Sociología de la juventud  en España: la investigación sobre la cultura política de los jóvenes. Intersecciones en Comunicación [online] 2008, n.3. pp. 67-91. 

Intersecciones en Comunicación

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ABSTRACT

The studies on the youth realized by the institutions that they work on this social group, are in the habit of materializing in publications of Reports that stay at the disposal of the public and are used by different instances (authorities), to give answers to the questions that affect the young men. In this respect, the Reports on the youth are constituted in the raw material of a social speech that, for having scientific arguments, is considered to be legitimate and expert. The relation of the young men with the space of the policy has been an object of analysis from the beginning of these studies; nevertheless it is a subject matter that has been losing relevancy - specially during the years 90-in the social analysis of the young men. In the present work there is exposed the way in which the above mentioned relation is approached by the investigation developed in Spain across the application of quantitative technique of analysis. The application of a methodological quantitative perspective in this field of study tends to support the traditional designs of investigation, without including indicators capable of catching the dynamics of the current society and the social experiences in which the young men register.