Socio-historical analysis of the youth concept

This article explores different constructions on the concept of youth through an analytical historical examination of the institutional concept of youth elaborated by international organizations. It contains a review of the concept of youth adopted by Panamanian legislation and compares its content with the conceptualizations of youth offered in the Central American and Caribbean region. Several recent theoretical approaches to the concept of youth are analyzed, in which an attempt is made to develop an approach based on the set of social and economic relations that determine the youth subject in his life in society. Finally, we describe from some theoretical assumptions of the sociology of youth and social history, considerations around the process of articulation of this subject in the historical processes in Panama.

本文通过对国际组织所阐释形成的青年制度性概念开展分析性历史考察，探讨青年概念的多元建构路径。文中梳理了巴拿马立法所采用的青年概念，并将其内涵与中美洲及加勒比地区的青年概念阐释进行对比分析。此外，本文还分析了近期数种青年概念的理论范式，其中尝试构建一种基于决定青年主体社会生活的社会与经济关系集合的研究路径。最终，本文基于青年社会学与社会史的若干理论假设，围绕巴拿马历史进程中该青年主体的形塑与融入过程展开论述。