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PALLAVICINI MAGNERE, Patricia. Los objetos de consumo en la construcción de los procesos de individuación de adolescentes. Ultima décad. [online]. 2008, vol.16, n.29, pp. 29-46. ISSN 0718-2236.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-22362008000200003.

Preliminary results of a research that analyses the centrality that consumer goods reaches in teenagers individualization process are presented. Some dynamics which can be recognized in life-stories of eight teenagers from Santiago are described as the personalization-search through consumption of serial objects and fashion, and its potentialities and limitations consequent of their place in social space. From the very individuals the permanent recons-truction of stories is notice, that simultaneously moves between affiliation to imaginary significations that embody in specific reference groups, to the opposition to others, which embody in rejected groups.

Palavras-chave : symbolic consumption; personalization; fashion; adolescence.