Dinâmicas sócio-espaciais e as experiências dos jovens na cidade desigual

Abstract

This paper focuses on analyzing the effects of the territory on young people’s behavior. For this purpose, youth is considered as a built-up group of the society that keeps regular interaction with space and time; the territory consists of the place where youth are living, taking into consideration the various areas of their lives in a city and, consequently, the boundaries to their actions and the limits to their participation in everyday’s social life. In this sense, many matters are studied, such as that of the poor youth’s life quality and how it has to do with the urban standards. The main analysis is based on the experience and point of view from young people grown in two neighborhoods of Juiz de Fora. Not only were family and education subjects of this study but also relationships established at the workplace and relationships established with different sectors of their urban life. The results of this study appoint that young people with similar socioeconomic background but raised in different special contexts, tend to have different expectations for the future as well as divergent conception on social engagement.