The poverty of the youth: analysis of the element forms of poverty in the youth of Spain

The analysis presented shows the existence of different forms of social vulnerability distributed heterogeneously among different young social groups. This assertion is sustained in a methodology of construction of social juvenile groups whose aim was to break the artificial homogenization usually used for the concept of youth. Youth is not considered here simply as a set of individuals who share the same cohort of age, but as a heterogeneous group of individuals who share similar social conditions of existence in their insertion to the labour market and familiar emancipation. The result has been the detection of seven ideal types of juvenile social groups in Spain: young prosperous adults, rural adolescents, disadvantaged adolescents, wealthy urban teens, disqualified youth, young precarious adults, and juvenile elite. Finally, we have analyzed how each one of these juvenile groups presents a specific morphology of vulnerability.