Relação pais e filhos adolescentes na sociedade contemporânea: um estudo sobre o olhar dos adolescentes

Abstract

This study it left of the questioning concerning the form as the children perceive the behavior of its parents since the moment where they enter in the adolescence. Aiming at to answer to this questioning, it had as objective generality to analyze the narratives of the adolescents concerning the relationship between parents and children, being considered social class and genre. The specific objectives had been: 1. To identify and to describe as the adolescent perceive its interactions with the diverse scopes of the society; 2. To understand the way as the family is portrayed in the narratives of the adolescent concerning its own trajectory; e 3. To argue the narratives of the adolescents according to social class and genre. The study included 30 adolescents aged 12-18 years, 15 to 15 popular tier and middle-tier. Amongst the participants of the popular layer, seven are of the feminine sort with age average 15 years and eight of the masculine sort, with age average 16 years. It enters the participants of average layer, eight of feminine sort and seven of the masculine sort, with age average 16 years. The adolescents of popular layer are students of a public school of basic education of the Salvador city and of a professionalizing school that develops a project of professional qualification aiming at the insertion in the work market. The adolescents of middle class are students of private schools. In-depth interview was conducted with two key issues of the narration process. Data analysis was performed by analysis of narratives, identifying the meaning and category through the dialectical-hermeneutical method, according to the axes and their dimensions listed: sociability (identity, monitoring, temporality and discrimination) and between generations (freedom; care and attention). The general results had disclosed that the form as the adolescents interact in the diverse ways of sociability configure themselves as starting point for the understanding of the relations between parents and children. The adolescents recognize that they have vitality to live deeply a phase who consider very good and, that, therefore, must be used to advantage intensely. The interchange enters the received values in the family and those conceived from the relation with the pairs creates certain discomfort between the two generations. There is not dialogue between parents and children and the parents do not understand their children in the scope of its necessities. The moments of leisure and integration between parents and children are rare. The parents are intent to the concrete aspects of the life of the children, but they do not perceive its subjective necessities. The conflicts between parents and children are mediated with naturalness, except in cases of fragility in the affection and bond. The family exerts an important paper in the mediation between parents and children. Uncles and grandparents are the closest as to supply, of certain form, the demands of moral and emotional nature of the adolescents. Is concluded that there is a referring gap the affection, and confidence of the parents in their children, what it influences in the conflicts between these two generations that it deserves to be investigated in posterior studies.