Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SylviaOC_DISSERT.pdf: 638531 bytes, checksum: dfc3a942cc67cbcc4c28df8fa5f9b951 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-14 / The research was focada in the feminine head of family, the City of Aracaju and its impacts in the nuclear familiar nucleus. Considering that, the papers of the men are in general, not valued and rewarded that the papers of the women in almost all the cultures. The women generally load the responsibility to take care of of the children and the domestic work, while the men traditionally are born with the responsibility to support the family. However, we find changes in this mainly north-eastern scene and, where through quantitative research, already one evidenced that they are majority as family support, therefore, we observe the construction of social identities of the women family heads and uncurling of the adaptativos aspects, the existing mechanism between domination and power, in the familiar nucleus. The impacts in the family if had change in the social relation for them to be family heads. One is about qualitative research that has left of the construction of a theoretical landmark, analyzing given of bibliographical sources and from interviews with women family heads, power to observe the forms of joints in the nuclear families, as they deal with the power to decide power, the financial power, the fragility, the domination and the influences of the traditional models. Analyzing the familiar relations between the woman, the children and the spouse, searching the excellent questions for the briefing of the thematic one, demystifying the dichotomy between the mother/wife and woman head of family in the residential environment / A pesquisa foi focada no chefe de fam?lia feminino, do Munic?pio de Aracaju e seus impactos no n?cleo familiar nuclear. Considerando que, os pap?is dos homens s?o em geral, muito mais valorizados e recompensados que os pap?is das mulheres: em quase todas as culturas, as mulheres carregam a responsabilidade de cuidar das crian?as e do trabalho dom?stico, enquanto os homens tradicionalmente nascem com a responsabilidade de sustentar a fam?lia. No entanto, encontramos mudan?as nesse cen?rio, e principalmente no Nordeste, onde atrav?s de pesquisas quantitativas, j? se constatou que s?o maioria como arrimo de fam?lia, portanto, observamos a constru??o de identidades sociais das mulheres chefes de fam?lia e o desenrolar dos aspectos adaptativos, o mecanismo existente entre a domina??o e o poder, no n?cleo familiar. Os impactos na fam?lia, se houve mudan?a na rela??o social por elas serem chefes de fam?lia. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa que parte da constru??o de um marco te?rico, analisando dados de fontes bibliogr?ficas e a partir de entrevistas com mulheres chefes de fam?lia, observar as formas de articula??es nas fam?lias nucleares, como lidam com o poder decis?rio, com o poder financeiro, com a fragilidade, com a domina??o e as influ?ncias dos modelos tradicionais. Analisando as rela??es familiares entre a mulher, os filhos e o c?njuge, buscando as quest?es relevantes para a elucida??o da tem?tica, desmistificando a dicotomia entre a m?e/esposa e mulher/ chefe de fam?lia no ambiente residencial