Uma reflexão sobre a juventude a partir das noções de Michel Maffesoli

Abstract

The current assignment on Michel Maffesoli reflects about his notions that help us to understand how the subject youth is thought on the contemporary. This study try to realize how the youth can be understood as a phenomenon from the approachs of the postmodern society. Therefore, is necessary first of all to place the main ideas and the influence of the author among the brazilians researchers and think about his most important beliefs like: the postmodern society that appears when the modernity starts to collapse; the method of sociology created by Maffesoli called “formismo” and finally some notions that are applied to understanding youth. In the first chapter Maffesoli and his influence among researchers is presented as well the studys that were conclude, especially those studies that talk about youth and the influence of the CEAQ( center of studies about actual and “everyday”. The second chapter will show us the method of Maffesoli trought the notions from the phenomenology “formista”. And the last chapter proposes some notions to understanting youth and the phenomena that involves the young people. In this study was used the bibliography research from books, magazines and the internet. We expect that the present study can promotes the Exchange of the knowledge and the notions of Maffesoli.