Youth as a social actor: new forms of collective action and interaction with the State
This research investigates the main aspects that characterize the collective action of young people in contemporaneity, about the expressed demands, the repertoire of action and the political culture. Focusing the student social movement, it interprets the ruptures between traditional and new political subjects related to the conception and forms of interaction with the State. It also seeks to understand the strategies adopted to promote social change and focus on the process of producing public policies. It is a qualitative approach research, which is based on the theoretical references on participation, collective action and state-society interaction. It is concluded that the different experiences of political socialization generated by the affiliation to social movements with different shades - more institutionalized or more autonomous -, imply the creation of distinct political cultures and, consequently, in socio-state interactions that vary in a spectrum from cooperation to conflict.