Sorrisos de jovens nas periferias da vida: o que revelam e o que ocultam de suas experiências e trajetórias

Abstract

On an ongoing construction, during six years, since the elaboration of the project of the investigation till the conclusion of the thesis, established by the requirements of the doctorate course, I had been delineating the outlines of the object of study, circumscribed by the smiles of the poor young peoples that inhabit the suburban areas. The investigative focus, consubstantiated here in the structural process of this expositive text, falls upon the comprehensive disclosure of the senses and meanings of the smiles of poor young people that face processes of social exclusion and precarious social inclusions, within the present capitalist civilization, by the best tradition of the Sociology of the Absences and the Sociology of the Emergencies. This is an analytical work, done by the trails and routes configured by the contemporary thinkers, such as the basic references: Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Maffesoli, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and the analysts from the area of studies of young people by the ways of contemporary times, in XXI Century. This work is structured in five parts, following the expositive dynamics that I defined as the most fruitful in order to present thought, analysis, questions constructed by the circuits of the investigation, which are shown here: the approach of the introduction which I entitled: “Presenting the scientific work: as if it were an introduction”; Chapter I named “Ways and routes:the methodology and its processual construction”; Chapter II that deals with “The smile of young peoples like an investigative phenomenon: conceptual marks and analytic perspective”; Chapter III that consubstantiates the basis of the structure of the work with the title: “Young peoples in contemporary times: delineating ways of analysis”; Chapter IV that incorporates the discoveries and questions weaved by the texture of the theory/empiric aspects, named “Smiles of the young peoples in the suburban areas: the practice of the Sociology of the Absences and the Sociology of the Emergencies”; at last, I present conclusions to incorporate ways of the study that I entitled: “Places of arrival to glimpse new trips: as title of conclusion”