Politics and youth: political participation of young people of the South of Brazil

Abstract

This article brings partial results of the research Democracy, media and social capital: a comparative study of political socialization of the young people of the South of Brazil conducted in the three capitals of the region, between 2015 and 2016, with high school students from public and private schools. We focus our analysis on political participation, to verify what would be the determinants and the relations of online and offline participation. The main hypothesis that permeated this study is that there is a greater willingness to participate online and for non-conventional off-line modalities. In addition, we also discuss the determinants of different modes of action through descriptive and multivariate analyzes, making comparative analyzes and individual models between cities. The results showed that, although there is no preference for direct actions and the online environment, there is a mutual strengthening between them and a convergence between modalities and environments.