Uma juventude mal assistida: as perspectivas de vida da juventude maragogipana

Abstract

This monographic work has the objective to analyze the life prospects of young people in the city of Maragogipe, Bahia, and from that of what is put in the Youth Statute bring a debate about some public policies have not put youth at the center their interventions and see how this factor affects the design life of these young people. From some of the main approaches found in the literature review it was found that youth is a category socially constructed and thus one can not characterize it in homogenised form, hence the adoption of the term "youth" in the plural to include the diversity that permeates the life of / girls. It was also made a brief analysis of the concept of public policy and how some of these materialize in the municipality, also made a characterization of Maragogipe-BA municipality in search for unveiling some of the socio-historical determinants of this territory and socioeconomic data that bring repercussions on the lives of the people and especially the youth today. The methodological process that guided this qualitative research was exploratory in nature. And they were applied 42 questionnaires containing open and closed questions in two municipality schools of Maragogipe, Bahia, one public and one private with as respondents students of the 3rd year of high school in order to know the life expectancy of these / those young people.