Let’s stop for a while to think of our daily lives, letting us know «with estranger eyes» the scenes, persons, and practices that we daily live. If we place ourselves in such a city like Bogotá probably we will pay attention to many circumstances. One of them might be the variety of subjects which are the ones we coexist: the singularity explosion is seen by each one. Some are called men and others women, some are adults, and others children and / or young; we distinguish them by their bodies, their esthetic and/or their behavior; however sometimes to differ is not easy. Our daily life is full of intercultural events. We are from the heterogenic, our differences today are essential part of what we are and express. The socio-politic transformation of the globalization, the techno-cultural in digital technologies which have come from the west, the lost of macro politic speeches which got to nations together for long time, are among others, the aspects that influence in this subjects’ multiplicities, that daily go along the social scenes. Perhaps, the social transformations that are happening are shown the most in the young’s ways of telling, feeling and expressing. Therefore to approach to the young’s subjectivities constitutes an opening to follow the contemporaneous society itself. It’s not that «young people have the exclusivity» (García Canclini, 2004) every body and all the cities in the world attend to an era changes without precedent, but probably the tendencies and tensions which are generating are strongly seen in who we consider «new generations». Consequently there’s a justification to understand the cultural senses that young weaves.

Starting from a state of the art made in 2004 about qualitative research in Colombian youth for the period 1985-2003, a reflection is proposed about specialized knowledge production. This discourse gives shape to notions of youth and also constructs young problems from the topics it questions. Some of the most recurrent representations of young people are presented in Colombian researches, as well as four of the principal topics the studies have focused on. This article exemplifies how concern and interest in specific social authorities, creates researches in country’s particular times and contexts.