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BECOMING A CITIZEN

Analysing the social representations of citizenship in youthFootnote1

A preliminary version of this article was discussed at the Research Network Youth and Generation during the 5th Conference of the European Sociological Association that took place in Helsinki in August 2001. We would like to thank Emilio Luque for his constant collaboration in improving the text and Claire Wallace for her comments on the first draft.We also wish to thank the two journal's anonymous referees for their detailed comments. This research has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (PB 98-0005) and by the Autonomus Community of Madrid (06/0010/2003).

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Pages 601-622 | Published online: 06 Sep 2007

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