Uma cartografia do Ficar entre os adolescentes

Abstract

The present work discourses about "being together" among adolescents aged 15 to 17 years. The general objective is to accomplish a cartography of "being together" among the adolescents, starting from the apprehension of the students' report of a public institution of teaching. For so much, it is looked for to understand the sexuality and its manifestations in the adolescence; to describe the adolescence starting from the affective, sexual and social dimensions; and, to analyze the representations on being together" through the speeches of the research subjects. At the end of the twentieth century, in the 80's, a new form of affective relationship appears, the being together", with the purpose of seeking pleasure. It is characterized by being informal, brief, fleeting, and implicates no commitment. The study starts from the presupposition that, being together" among the adolescents is influenced by the social relationships and the bonds, in the form as they are constituted in the contemporary society. The research is characterized as qualitative, descriptive, of a specific case study. It uses like techniques the simple observation, the questionnaire and the discussion groups. The development of the research pointed to the following conclusions: being together" is constituted as a relationship code of the present time to mean the new, in syntony with a larger opening for the subjects that involve sexuality, in consonance with the way of life of the current society; however, it lives together with the expressed contradiction through old values that still base the vision of the sexuality between the gender. It is the briefest of the relationships, it is based in its connection with the erotic; nothing demands to not to be the pleasure and the satisfaction of the desire. It is valued by the adolescents that see it as the necessary experience in a moment in that they still don't want to establish bonds.