Uma palavra, uma escolha, para “projeto de vida”

Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate the bases for the configurations of possible and impossible paths for the choices in the elaboration of life projects by young people. This objective was based on the elaboration of the doctoral thesis Squeezing the bubble of the habitus: Mobilizations of the families and of a public school in Salvador and its reflexes in the elaboration of the life projects of the young adolescents. In this, we proposed an exploratory question to three high school classes in a public school in Salvador about which the first word they associate with the term life project. We also present the professional trajectory of a civil engineer, trained in 2013 at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, extracted from the newspaper Correio da Bahia. Based on the students' answers and the criteria of the engineer's choice of their profession, we verified that the economic-financial factor assumed greater importance in the elaboration of their life projects. From these two situations, we reflect on the processes of choices based on the foundation of the mobilizations promoted by needs according to Lewin's field theory and the formation of Piaget's moral judgment. The data may lead us to think that the needs felt by the subjects in focus in this research, associated with their references of values, play an important role in their choice processes, and the more the world view is expanded through the most diverse experiences, in the most varied environments, including educational, family, social, as well as self-knowledge, the better the conditions of their choices