Sociology of youth: From deviant youth to the youth's contemporary protagonism

Abstract

This paper discuss about some Youth Sociology’s approaches theoretical developed by the School of Chicago, the structural-functionalism, and the cultural studies. Therefore, this work aims to analyze some pioneering studies about youth in Brazil. This panorama emphasized the middle class youth instead working class one. This fieldwork has changed since the studies from UNESCO in the end of the nineties, when assuming a social demand for studies on youth. Actually, the UNESCO mobilized on the one hand, the academic scholars, and on the other hand social workers engaged in public politics for youth. They have increased this field of Sociology of Youth assuming a multidisciplinary approach in the contemporary times.