Leisure Organization Models of Young People in the North Mexican Border

Abstract

Throughout an exploratory research design, we approach the study of youth organization in fulfilling leisure as an essential part of everyday life. We use data mining as the technique to drawing conclusions from our vast amount of data, upon extrapolating patterns and associating dependently linked variables and attributes. The structure of this paper is organized by the perspective of youth as a category of study, and conceptualization of human needs to understand the implications of these at the spare time. The organization is approached as a group of people related to systematic arrangement of social relations that give meaning to ideas, and values shared. The analysis is accomplished through data obtained from 300 participants aged 15 to 29, that shed light about categories of youth organization as an articulator of the social coexistence: demographics; preferences by age, gender, type, and frequencies of activities; spending; networks and the before and after-party activities, which counts the strategies they adopt for leisure, in the midst of a complex society in Ciudad Juárez, México. The leisure organizational model is constructed by elements related to various attributes into discernable categories, which can use to draw further conclusions about the theme approached.