Abstract

TANCARA, Constantino. The sociology of youth as scientific discipline. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.5, n.2, pp.161-179. ISSN 1997-4043.

Departing from Walter Benjamin's interpretation of Paul Klee's painting, Angelus Novus, this article emphasizes the necessity of re-thinking sociology as a discipline that focuses on youth as an object of study. Three reasons are put forward: ontological, epistemological and political. Each one reveals that youth shares common traits with another phenomenon, the everydayness understood as the here and now. These traits are the transience, the state of formation, and the prospective state. This implies that a sociology of youth can only be possible in the context of the sociology of everydayness. In this sense, this article tries to establish an epistemological foundation of the sociology of youth as scientífic discipline according to the criteria outlined by Galileo. These criteria continue to be valid en relation to the science of actual global society; thus emerges the necessity to support a scientífic discipline based on the criteria of Galileo.

Keywords : Sociology of youth; Sociology of everydayness; definitíon of youth; concept of science.

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