Jóvenes y violencia: de las escuelas a los boliches

Abstract

In this article we start from the observation that in the media, there is a stigmatizing social discourse on youth that typically classify them as violent individuals. In this sense, we propose to make an inquiry into the interconnectedness of young people in high school and young people in night clubs about their perceptions of violence. There is a subculture of the night as a field with codes and meanings through which young people relate and identify within schools. Some students consider the dance clubs as dangerous places. Therefore differ from one another in respect of those who go to dance. Also, within the group of young people who go out dancing there are differences between those who attend certain places considered violent, and those who attend other places where they say there is no violence. We followed a qualitative strategy to analyze a corpus of 28 interviews to students 4 state run secondary schools in the province of Buenos Aires.