Direitos da criança e do adolescente: marcos legais e mídia

Abstract

This doctoral thesis belongs to the production of Center of Studies of Gender, Race and Age (Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero, Raça e Idade - NEGRI) of the postgraduate studies program in Social Psyhcology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), with the study of the treatment given by Folha de São Paulo newspaper related to contemporaneous legal milestones that establishes rights for children and teenagers: the International Convention on the rights of the Child, from 1989, the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of Children and Teenager (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente), from 1990. The interpretation of Folha s production about these legal milestones is based on national and international academic literature about children and teenager s rights and in 460 journalistic articles, covering the period of 1985 to 2006. Our objective was to propose an interpretation of Folha s treatment to contemporaneous legal milestones based on the concept of ideology proposed by John B. Thompson and the theory of Childhood Social Studies and about the construction of social problems. From a methodology standpoint, this thesis adopted the method developed by Thompson, the hermeneutics of depth, and the content analysis, according to Bardin and Rosenberg s proposal. Based on these studies, we have suggested that Folha s treatment to childhood s legal milestones helped to produce and sustain relationships of domination of adults over children and teenagers, creating on this sense an ideological production. Folha s production about legal milestones, even though in significant quantity, specially related to Statute of Children and Teenager, was seldom focused on informing its readers, prevailing a dramatic narrative e approached, preferably, subjects related to violence, to crime, to risky situation and to deviation