Família e escola disposições e expectativas presentes nas escolhas profissionais dos jovens de classe média e populares na cidade de Santa Maria-RS

Abstract

This dissertation deals with issues that correspond to education and the world of youth work. The proposed research aimed to investigate the influence of the institutions the family and school on the professional expectations of young people belonging to two schools, namely, a public and a private in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, based on students who are in the third grade of high school. Was studied and sought to understand the influences of private and public schools and in what reason and grade this happens. The research was supported by the concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu about habitus and cultural capital, as well as that of favorable dispositions concept developed by Bernard Lahire. The study sought to observe the class habitus of students from different institutions and the extent to which the school reinforces and / or alters this, based on objective and subjective elements present in the moment that young people choose by a career. It is worth considering that some students from public institutions have expectations / choices / success in professions that contradict their predictable habitus. In this sense, the purpose was to analyze the extent to which the school reinforces and / or changes the occupational probabilities already present in the family life of students and their original community. Finally, this dissertation show the extent to which habitus, as well as knowledge, skills, information, that is, the set of intellectual qualifications transmitted by families and reproduced in schools, has a singular influence on the lives of these social agents. The research made use of a qualitative methodology and was guided by the perspective that subjectivities, both from an individual and collective point of view, are strongly marked by family and school experiences.