Juventude e socialização: os modos de ser jovem aluno das camadas médias em uma escola privada de Belo Horizonte MG

Abstract

The research tried to comprehend the ways of being a young student of the middle class of a private school, confessional, of high schools from Belo Horizonte, questioning the assigned meanings of his/hers juvenile condition and his/hers student condition. It was further intended to discuss some sociability ways in the scholar space and its future. The theoretical reference used in this research was articulated in a composition of bound authors from the Social Sciences field, specially the ones in the Sociology of Education and Youth.The research utilized a qualitative approach, looking for the apprehension of the process by which the researched young people build meanings for their own way of being young in their scholar space. The field research had a 6 months duration. Various instruments of data collection were used: field observation, questionnaire application and semi-structured interviews application. The field observation was applied in two high school classes in their junior year, with a duration of four months. The questionnaire was applied for 73 students, contemplating these two classes. The semi-structured interviews were performed with nine students, and the duration was about of one hour each. Besides, it was also performed a group of discussion with six students with the duration of two hours. The results suggested that the school occupies a privileged time in the middle class young students everyday life, causing a significant influence their sociability ways. We also found out that the family strategies are fundamental conditions in the schooling process of these young students and in the elaboration of future projects. Besides, the young students signified this phase of their lives by using, mainly, of the responsibility and autonomy notions, showing the different manners of representation of the juvenile condition