Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EmanoelJBL.pdf: 861470 bytes, checksum: 6e1b20b51cb7cd4ab27f7e2bcb3bb2d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-04-29 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The purpose of this work is to map the family and community social supports for adolescents and young students from Bom Pastor Distric, West Zone of Natal/RN, as well as to describe how such resources are used by these individuaIs in that community. Social support refers not only to formal activities or organizations, but also to spontaneous or informal forms of support - friendship and solidarity nets available in the community, affective relations that are meaningful in the lives of children and young people. Our discussion is based on a research performed with 382 adolescents and young students from Jean Mermoz Public School (students from 5th to 11th grades, aged 13 to 14). We emphasized the situations of violence derived from family or community spheres faced by these students. In relation to this specific aspect, we observed the participants more frequently look for help from the informal social supports, mostly from their friends, which indicates that the formal ones are not considered to be effective instruments for social assistance. The search for informal social supports shows the relations informally established in the streets (for instance when they look for help from friends, rei atives or neighbors) have more effect and play an important role in which there are values and affections exchange. Thinking the strengthening of these social links is of extreme importance and leads to the weakening of the hegemonic logics focused on the production of subjects as private identities, and to the amplification of an ethics committed to the disassembly of a sociability anchored to fear, impotence, intolerance, discrimination, and reduction of spaces for circulating and confronting mechanisms of social exclusion. It is crucial that we concentrate our attention to building friendship as a system of reciprocity and affective exchanges, as a space for political actions and production of forms of lives that are potent against social anesthesia / Esta disserta??o teve como objetivos mapear as bases de apoio familiares e comunit?rias para adolescentes e jovens estudantes no bairro de Bom Pastor, Zona Oeste de Natal/RN e conhecer de que forma esses recursos s?o usados pelos adolescentes e jovens estudantes desta comunidade. Bases de apoio referem-se tanto a atividades ou organiza??es formais quanto a formas de apoio espont?neas ou informais - redes de amizade e solidariedade, rela??es afetivas significativas na vida de crian?as e jovens disponiveis na comunidade. Nossa discuss?o tem como base uma pesquisa realizada com 382 adolescentes e jovens estudantes da Escola Estadual Jean Mermoz, alunos do Ensino Fundamental II e m?dio, com idade entre 13 e 24 anos. Focamos as situa??es de viol?ncia vivenciadas por esses estudantes, sejam elas ocorridas no ?mbito familiar ou ocorridas na comunidade. Em rela??o a esse aspecto os participantes recorrem com mais freq??ncia ?s bases de apoio informais, sobretudo os amigos, indicando que as bases formais n?o se configuram como dispositivos de suporte social. A busca das bases informais aponta que as rela??es estabelecidas informalmente no espa?o da rua (quando procuram amigos, parentes ou vizinhos) t?m mais resson?ncia, configurando-se como um lugar importante no qual h? troca de valores e de afetos. Pensar o fortalecimento desses la?os sociais ? importante e aponta para o enfraquecimento da l?gica hegem?nica voltada para a produ??o de sujeitos como identidades privatizadas, para o fortalecimento de uma ?tica comprometida com a desmontagem de uma sociabilidade ancorada no medo, na impot?ncia, na redu??o dos espa?os de circula??o e de enfrentamento dos dispositivos montados para refor?ar a exclus?o social, a intoler?ncia e a discrimina??o. Deve-se voltar para a constru??o da amizade como um sistema de reciprocidade, de trocas afetivas, como um espa?o de agenciamento pol?tico e de produ??o de formas de vida potentes contra a anestesia social