Abstract

SAID, Shirly. Young people in Popular High Schools: Between individuation and political subjectivation. Universitas [online]. 2018, n.28, pp.141-157. ISSN 1390-8634.  https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n28.2018.07.

In this article we seek to relate the concept of political subjectivation with the contributions of the sociologies of the individual, looking forward to generating theoretical and methodological tools that enrich a located analysis of young people´s experiences in Popular High Schools in Argentina. Our main hypothesis is that there is a distance between the students’ initial expectations and these schools’ institutional proposal, that can be expressed as a latent tension between individuation and subjectivation processes. It questions how to study youngsters´ individuation processes, in which the scholar trial is crucial, without disattending the political subjectivation processes presented as possible. In methodological terms, it inquires how to approach young people´s experiences with an attitude of epistemological surveillance, and reflects on the potentialities of the biographic approach. It concludes that this perspectiwve can provide with suitable theoretic-methodological tools for the objectives of this research, giving priority to the production of life stories.

Keywords : Socially disadvantaged youth; individuals; politics; Educational sociology; adults` education; methodology.

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