Abstract

PEREZ SANCHEZ, Rolando. Televisión, juventud y futuro: estudio intercultural con jóvenes costarricenses y alemanes. Actual. psicol. [online]. 2002, vol.18, n.105, pp.7-24. ISSN 0258-6444.

The present article examines the relationship between the reception of TV series and the social construction of the future, both personal and social, among Costa Rican and German youths. For this purpose, 40 Costa Rican and German youths between 15 and 17 years old were interviewed using semistructured interviews. Qualitative analyses of media messages and interviews focused on those country-specific models of cultural interpretation (kulturelle Deutungsmuster, Lüders, 1991) that were present in the social world represented in each TV serial as well as in youths’ discourse about the future. With this respect, it was possible to distinguish country-specific forms of organization of youth’s life course. Data show that a) future representations in Costa Rica are structured within the framework of the conflictive experience linked with the cultural modernization and the concomitant changes in the life course and the youth phase, while b) future representations in Germany are organized in the context of an accelerated process of institutional individualization of life courses, which, paradoxically, is linked with new forms of standardization.

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