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This text is an attempt to review academic work on youth cultures carried out in Spain
since the transition to democracy (although some earlier work related to the subject,
stemming from the late Franco period, is also discussed). The nearly 200 contributions
analysed (books, papers, theses, unpublished reports and journal texts) were grouped
into different academic areas such as criminology, sociology, psychology, communication
or anthropology, and theoretical trends ranging from ‘edifying’ ecclesiastic postwar
literature to the Birmingham school.The works are classified into five major periods
marked by different youth styles which act as distorting mirrors of social and cultural
changes that are taking place: the late Franco times (golfos and jipis), the transition to
democracy (punkis and progres), the post-transition (pijos and makineros), the 1990s
(okupas and pelaos) and the present time (fiesteros and alternativos) (see Glossary to
Spanish terms).The social context, the academic framework and the main research lines
for these periods are analysed, and the authors also touch upon what they consider as
representative of the emerging ideological, theoretical and methodological tendencies. |
