Efeitos do território sobre processos de transição para a vida adulta: estudo de caso do Município de São Gonçalo

Abstract

This work consists of an exploratory case study on the forms of transition to adulthood among youngsters from the popular classes. We seek to understand whether and how the territorial inequalities in peripheral locations such as São Gonçalo can express inequalities in the ways of experiencing youth. One of the main hypotheses explicit that living in extreme districts of that city influences the way young people recognize, project and appropriate themselves of the city spaces, making the territorial dimension one of the influencing elements in the construction of their trajectories. The methodology involves initially, a literature review of key concepts of youth, transition and territory; then, the characterization of the municipality and dialogue with secondary data on the database of the support research, providing us the criteria for the choice of interviewees; therefore, the analysis of fourteen semi-structured interviews with young people of the two extreme groups of districts. At the end, it is clear, among other findings, that there are influences of the territory on the distinct lifestyles among young people, what allowed us characterizing them by common elements ("border youngsters", "rooted youngsters" and "hybrid youngsters") and showing that only certain configuration of conditions (including types of school, work, movement, form of entertainment, etc..), available for some, allows the search for breaking with the territory of residence circumscription.