Tessituras da liberdade. A (re) construção das teias relacionais dos adolescentes privados de liberdade no Centro Educacional do Adolescente (CEA-PB).

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the processes of building social links from the responses and strategies about experience that permeate the sociabilities of distinct groups of individuals who are at the social educative process deprivation of liberty at CEA - Teenager’s Educational Center, located in João Pessoa city, PB . The theoretical framework that subsidizes the achievement to conduct this study is Foucault’s theoretical contributions about the "austere institutions" or "disciplinary institutions", in harmony with Goffman’s reflections as to the "total institutions" and the interactions experienced by stigmatized individuals as well as Bourdieu’s analyzes about the distinctions in contemporary society. The survey was carried through a fieldwork at CEA. Which spontaneous and participant observations were conducted in addition to documental data collection and conducting semi-structured interviews with teenagers and staff. The qualitative analysis of the interviews aimed at assimilating the objective and subjective aspects which underlie the ways of sociability of the reclusive teenagers. In order to understand the 'structural dimension' in which these sociabilities are outlined CEA was analyzed as a field, where individuals are situated in unequal positions and take part in specific power relations through several pointers , some of them , stigmatizing. The inherent subjectivity about the way teenagers comprehend their condition and assume identities in this context was through the ordering of valued elements by each of them to think their way of life and plans for the future .From what has been considered, it can be realized that at CEA , the experience of reclusion, as compliment of social educative processgoes beyond the "mortification and / or disciplining " process of each person , argued by Goffman (1999) and Foucault (1996). That is, the process of teenagers reclusion in this institution is characterized as a stagein which they edify survival strategies from established relational experiences that underlie the time/space of reclusion.