The discursive construction of youth: the general and the particular

Abstract

In this article a description of the discourses about youth in its different aspects is developed. The mitification of youth, narcisism, youth as a social product and as agent of change, youth subculture and contestation, transition to the adult state, the discrimination of youth, the search for identity and the diversity of youth are the discourses that are analized in their contents, social circulation and consequences. Finally, we make a proposal of a model, gathering some general propositions from these discourses about youth adding some results of our research on young Spanish people.