Diz juventudes: a percepção da juventude moradora das periferias da cidade de Sobral- Ceará acerca das dimensões subjetivas da desigualdade social.

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze how Young people living in the periphery located in Sobral - Ceara experience and symbolize in their daily lives the subjective dimensions of social inequality. In this perspective, social inequality in Brazil is a complex phenomenon that constitutes itself as a mark of a society. Besides the objective dimension, connected to economic factors, it also has a subjective dimension that marks and constitutes the subjects manners and relations, adding sense and meaning. A specific cut in Brazil’s population was made to investigate the phenomenon, youths. The youth is a multiple and plural social category and Young people are active social beings that appropriate and interpret the contexts in wich they are inserted. The present study is a qualitative research that consists in analyzing the transcriptions of the material produced during the making of the documentary “Diz Juventudes”, made as an outreach of the Federal University of Ceara - Sobral psychology course. Given what was heard in the youth speeches during the interviews, the results were organized and discussed in five categories that describe how this public understands and lives the social inequality phenomenon. The categories emerged from the analysis of the material and were not previously decided. In Sobral, social inequality is understood by the youth through multiple aspects: infrastructure, segregation in public places and access to different goods and services. The study was an opportunity to these people to show who they are, beyond labels and stigmas, giving new meaning to these spaces and trying to understand their history and perception.