Abstract

TORRES MORILLO, Moraima; DORNELES, Malvina do Amaral  and  VILLEGAS, Ma. Margarita. Michel maffesoli´s contributions and complications in the study of postmodern student communities. Paradìgma [online]. 2008, vol.29, n.1, pp.41-68. ISSN 1011-2251.

A this paper it`s discuss implications of the theoretical contributions of Michel Maffesoli (1998; 2003; 2005a; 2005b; 2005c) in the field of the educational research. This writher invites social scientists to contemplate the social breathing of present civilization, in which progress myths, futurist projects and great utopical ideals have fallen. Within this reality, a greater amount of young people have become every day irreverent in front of educational demands. They seems to focus their future expectations in their own personal conquests, strongly marked by a culture of present that favors pleasure here and now, as opposed to work, endurance and postponement. These youngsters integrate students post modern neo-communities   where it is common to find school dropouts and all sort of failures and socially excluded people. These neo-communities are growing steadily, inviting us to study the situation from a sensitive logic (Maffesoly, 1998) as opposed to the rational tradition used in modern science.

Keywords : Postmodernity; Youths; Research in Education.