Juventud y Bicentenario: Estudiantes secundarios, procesos de construcción de identidad ciudadana y discursos marginales. La Serena-Coquimbo, 2006-2009

this present proposal is astringent to the moment in which we started to live as a society. at overwhelming steps the denominated ？celebrations of the bicentennial？ with which additional holidays have been included. in this sense, the present article, from a historical logic, presents/displays the conclusions of a quantitative study, carried out during the year 2009 in the cities of coquimbo and la serena, with students who prepared themselves to finish secondary education. assuming an evaluative position, similar to the one opened in chile in 1910, when pre-cleared men like enrique mc iver and luis emilio recabarren, among others, discussed the centenary of the republic, and submitted word students of fourth grade, near finishing their secondary education; from here on, they deepened themselves in themes such as the youth identity, the impact of the state speech, through formal education and the weight in which the ？generation of opinion and reflective critical thought/？ on the subject of history and social sciences.