In search of living well: the rural young between countryside and city

Author(s)

Jose Carlos Alves Pereira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2007-04-16

Examining board members

Fernando Antonio Lourenço; Maria José Carneiro; Sonia Maria Pessoa Pereira Bergamasco

• Advisor: Fernando Antonio Lourenço

Abstract

In this study I reflect upon the perspectives of the rural young regarding theaccomplishment of their autonomy and their safe transition to the adult life. I discuss questions related to the social construction of youth; to the regional dynamics where the young individuals act; to the familial strategies; gender relations. The analysis¿s loci are an establishment and a rural quarter. The analytical method is the dialectic and helps disclose structurized and structurizing habitus of the social agents by influencing the familial organization ways in a microsocial dimension and the sociocultural processes in a macrosocial dimension. In this context, the autonomy¿s accomplishment and the safe transition to the adult life do not necessarily implicate in definitive rupture from the countryside. Actually, they condition themselves to work in the urban area (AU)