A contribuição dos tios e tias na vida dos sobrinhos em uma escola pública de um bairro da periferia de Salvador-Ba

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the place of uncles and aunts in the socialization of nephews, focusing on the different ways that this contribution may happen, such as: financial assistance, care and affectivity. We opted for carrying out a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research, based on statistics (percentage) as an attempt to explain in greater depth the meaning and characteristics of the result of information obtained through semi-open questions. The population studied is composed by members of families belonging to the popular class, residents in the Suburb Railroad of the Salvador city. The proposal of this investigation emerged from existing gaps on the literature about the specific role of uncles / aunts in the family contexts. As theoretical contributions were considered studies on human evolutionary theory and human ethology as well as family and society. Responding to emerging issues, we could assume that: a) even knowing that parents, in general, occupy the main place in the children's lives, uncles / aunts invest in their nephews and nieces: i) due to the new family configurations; (ii) because of inclusive fitness, aiming at the likelihood of their own genes in the population ("selection of relatives"); iii) considering specifically the population examined, residents of outlying districts of Salvador, the lack or lack of assistance and public policies to his nephews and nieces influence uncles and aunts to accept the responsibility to contribute to the improvement of life of the nephews; b) uncles / aunts perceive their participation in processes of socialization of the nephews as of great importance. Thus, they act in the most different aspects of their lives, such as affective, financial. The analyzes provided relevant information on the role of uncles and aunts in the life of their nephews and nieces, such as: i) the main role played by uncles is the affective; ii) aunts are the most mentioned as active in seeking the welfare children and adolescents; iii) unmarried aunts and uncles are the most mentioned as caregivers; iv) the understanding that the other family members are willing to and are accepted into care activities is ratified. At long last, we cannot fail to point out many questions have emerged from this study and that further researches, broadening the analysis and gathering information are needed.