Right-wing and far-right youth: political positions in high school

The article analyzes young people self-identified as right-wing and far-right, based on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations and his analysis of conservatism as a style of thought. The data originate from a quantitative research conducted with 2,169 respondents from high schools in three municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. The outcome of the study is based on the response of individuals to political self-identification, on a scale of 1 (far-left) to 10 (far-right). It is statistically significant that the identification as right-wing or far-right a male and white profile was significantly observed in private Catholic or Evangelical schools.