Grupos juvenis na periferia: recompondo relações de gênero e de raça/etnia São Paulo 2004/2005

Abstract

This doctor s thesis has as its objective to know the socialization processes experienced by three youth groups, belongin to popular segments and formed by residents of the periphery of São Paulo: Coquetel Molotov, located in Itaquera, East Zone; Núcleo Cultural Força Ativa, in Cidade Tiradentes, East Zone; and Núcleo Cultural Poder e Revolução, in Jardim São Savério, Southeast Zone. The objective of the investigation is to analyze the main challenges, conflicts, struggles, initiatives and advances faced by these young people; what they learn and live in their families, schools, workplace, homes, and in their participation in youth groups; their interpersonal and group relationships in private and public spaces and the consequences of their personal and collective lives. Methodologically, the research is developed with the utilization of questionnaires that configure the profile of participating youth and describe the path of each one of the three groups, and of focal groups and semi-structured interviews, which try to understand perceptions, concepts and experiences of class, gender and race/ethnic relations throughout their childhood, adolescence and youth. We investigated what it means to be young in the periphery, the conformation of the relationships among the youth and between the youth and the adults, the division of tasks and living space, the building and the living of subjectivities and gender and ethnic-racial relationships. The conceptual references that base the analyses are from contemporary authors belonging to different areas of the social sciences, such as Education, Psychology, Social Services, for the theme of the youth, which currently has appeared with more strength, requires multidisciplinary attention to be better understood. The results confirm the hypothesis that belonging to youth groups, with the sponsorships and the cultural, social and political propitiates a new meaning and the existence of new gender and ethnic-racial relationships, signaled by respect, equity, dialogue and altering, different from what was learned in their childhood and is still lived in the family, in the school and in the school, and in some instances of the society. They also point that the relationships with new meanings represent possibilities for these youth to transform themselves in socializing and multiplying agents, contributing to their own integration as citizens, as well the integration of other youth