Youth and adolescence: preliminary considerations

Authors

  • Jacqueline Oliveira Moreira PUC-Minas
  • Ângela Buciano Rosário PUC-Minas
  • Alessandro Pereira Santos PUC- Minas

Keywords:

youth, teens, society, post-modernity.

Abstract

This article intends to address the concept of youth in the field of Psychology. From the concept of adolescence, similarities and differences are carried out on the subject. The Social Sciences and Philosophy are called together in this discussion that situates the young in our societies, modern and post-modern. The youth, as a cultural paradigm in the contemporaneity, will be addressed in this article, which proposes a reflection on the processes of subjectivity and the contradictions that involve the departure of youth entering the adult world and in post-modernity.

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Author Biographies

Jacqueline Oliveira Moreira, PUC-Minas

Doutora em Psicologia Clinica (PUC-SP), Mestre em Filosofia (UFMG), Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da PUC Minas (M/D) Psicóloga Clinica.

Ângela Buciano Rosário, PUC-Minas

Psicóloga, mestre em Psicologia pela PUC-Minas, doutoranda em Psicologia pela PUC-Minas, bolsista da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais - FAPEMIG

Alessandro Pereira Santos, PUC- Minas

Mestrando de Psicologia da PUC Minas e Professor de Psicologia da Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos – UNIPAC Barbacena

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Published

2012-02-28

How to Cite

Moreira, J. O., Rosário, Ângela B., & Santos, A. P. (2012). Youth and adolescence: preliminary considerations. Psico, 42(4). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistapsico/article/view/8943

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Vol. 42 No. 4 (2011)

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