The concept of youth: A view from a generational perspective

Abstract

In this article a theoretical review of the concept of youth from a generational perspective is made with the objective of knowing the different conceptualizations of the youth seen as a part of the global and Glocal generation in the Latin and Central American context. The sources used to obtain the information were based on the rewiew of the repositories of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua) and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), through the scientist bibliography database systems such as Ebsco, Sage, Google Academic and the external database Taylor and Francis online. The current generation of the young people, called the “Glocal generation” lives in a globalized world, of overmodernity, where the logic of consumption, technology, the internet and unprecedented access to information converge. Youth, as Mannheim would say, are influenced by their socio-historical environment and have an impact on future generations, therefore it is important to analyze the dynamics that influence their experiences, as well as the ways to adapt them to everyday, to the Glocal and their expressions in public space in the first decade and their projections towards the emerging second decade of the XXI century.