Les Polítiques de joventut a Catalunya durant el període democràtic Authors Pere Soler i Masó Abstract The following article analyses the consideration afforded to the stage of youth over the last twenty-five years, coinciding with the period of democracy and the implementation of public policies in Catalonia. The article begins with a presentation of the complexity involved in defining the concept of youth and its implications in the design of policies for young people. It goes on to address the evolution that youth policies have undergone, proposing four stages, depending on whether the discourse is closer to policies of transition to adult life or closer to affirmative youth policies. The article closes with some food for thought, and poses future challenges for work in education that can be undertaken with this population sector. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2007-01-16 Issue No. 8: 2005 Section Studies License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.