O estereótipo da rebeldia na adolescência: uma abordagem sociológica

Abstract

This work analyses the adolescent behavior mainly inspired by the foucaultian notion of disciplinary power as a relation that aims to produce autonomous individuals, considering adolescence as a period when the conquer of autonomy is super estimated and stimulated to the formation of suitable individuals for social life. The revolt commonly attributed to adolescents would be associated not only to attempts of autonomy affirmation, but also to the structural and institutional separation between the ampler social world (reserved to adults) and the infant-youthful word, where individuals are prepared to life in society, but without participating of it. Such separation takes its more structural aspect in the educational institutions, which occupy themselves, fundamentally, of shaping individuals, transmitting mainly theoretical knowledge about the world, stimulating a reflexive boarding of reality and supplying minimal knowledges for making the individual feels capable of defining the social role that he will take in productive life. With these knowledges and others acquired in relations and diverse medias, the adolescents argue more practical beddings of the life in society with theoretical and ideological references, contesting the functioning and the impositions of the society, mainly those that present themselves as restrictions to the exercise of their autonomy. Throughout this work, observing students of average education in two schools and congregating diversified bibliographical material on mannering disposals, reproduction of norms and values and deviant behavior, I argument that the revolt attributed to adolescents is more an external classification than an intrinsic character of these actors, being, many times, not much recognized and reproduced by them.