Construcciones de buena vida y adolescencia en las narrativas de Jóvenes: errar hacia sí mismo

Abstract

This exploratory research analyses the constructions and experiences of a group of young members of the “Colectivo de Pensamiento Creativo” from Sopó. Their constructions of adolescence and of a “Good life” are investigated through a focus group and autobiographical stories, in order to comprehend the social condition of adolescents and what this entails for what young people consider to be a “Good life.” Cross-cutting and recurring themes were identified in the young people’s stories, which emerged from a phenomenological-interpretive reading of both the focus group and the autobiographical accounts. From this investigation, common and meanings were found that place experiences of the adolescent condition in a wandering between being and becoming, as well as unique ways in which their notions of the “Good life” are construed in agentic account of this wandering.