Por entre os muros: interações sociais de jovens rurais na escola.

Abstract

This work aims to observe and analyze the forms of social interactions among rural youth in urban school. The research was done in the Francisco de Assis Maciel Lopes Primary School - O Assissao, in the municipality of Queimadas, State of Paraiba, the research subjects were the rural youth in the second year of Secondary School, morning session. The study is constructed through the ethnographical method, observing the interactions between the studerits in the school spaces during breaks, off-classes time and in the classrooms of the" second year. We have also done semi-structured interviews and questionaries with the young people and their fathers and mothers who live near to the BT104 road, because the access and transport. The documents were collected in the school secretary and allowed us to access informations on the institution and the students. We draw on the concepts of habitus, cultural capital of Bourdieu (2001; 2002; 2004a; 2004b), primary socialization of Berger (1974) and interaction, background region, front region, personal appearance of Goffmann (1985), to interpret the material collected by the methodological instruments. We concluded that the rural youth, who study in the second year of the High School in reference, desire to conclude, at least, the high school, to have access to work and goods of the globalized world. We observed that school is not considered a valuable place only as a learning institution, but as a sociability space, too. Meantime, the image constructed by the teachers and school direction about the rural students in the school that they are interactive, obedient and inclined on studying can be explained by the socialization process in the rural area. In Bourdieu' words, this can be interpreted as the habitus of the rural youth.