Relações de gênero e ruralidades nas narrativas de adolescentes em escolas do interior do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Throughout history the ways of relating have been through changes which impacted in how the relationships of adolescents are experienced nowadays. The velocity and instantaneousness produced by liquid modern scenario contribute to flexible and unstable relationships in adolescence. Furthermore, violence in relationships among teenagers is trivialized as a cultural phenomenon, especially in Brasil. The study aimed to investigate gender violence in adolescent affective relationships and how gender issues are presented in the narratives of adolescents from two municipal schools in a rural and urban context in Rio Grande do Sul’s countryside. The research is defined as qualitative and exploratory, with the participation of teenagers between 15 and 16 years old, being 7 girls and 4 boys. In this research, adolescence is comprehended by the period from 12 and 18 years of age. The study took place in a city in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, located 67 km from the capital of state, Porto Alegre. Two city schools took part in this study, one is located in the urban area of the city and the other one in the rural area. There were six mixed focus groups of girls and boys, three in each school. The data were examined through the content analysis of the thematic type of speech emission from the focus groups. Two studies based on research data. The first article analyzes how the adolescents' perceptions about affective relationships in adolescence. The results point to perceptions of relationships impacted by the combination of romantic love and liquid love. Besides that, symbolic violence is perceived in the inequalities between genders and in homosexual relationships pathologization. The second article aimed to analyze the perceptions of adolescents about the rural context where they live. The results of article two presented that, although there is a desire to migrate from the city to new opportunities, some adolescents are worried about experiencing prejudice against the geographic origin and place where they live, generated by the symbolic violence. The two studies revealed the importance of researching as gender relations in the rural areas, by opportunizing and strengthening a presence of Social Psychology in rural areas.