Trabalho & Educação | v.28 | n.1 | p.271-273 | jan-abr | 2019
Assim, os/as jovens questionavam e também se recusavam a aceitar alguns trabalhos
“destinados” a eles/as, devido, entre outras questões, à experiência de trabalho que
tiveram na UFMG. No âmbito dos processos de escolarização, as narrativas refletiram,
em sua maioria, as descoincidências entre os projetos de longevidade escolar e as
condições objetivas dos/as jovens. Todavia, os/as jovens lançavam mão de diferentes
suportes e estratégias para se constituírem como estudantes e poderem alcançar o
ensino superior ou outros projetos. As famílias, principalmente as mães, assumiam um
lugar significativo, funcionando como importante suporte, mesmo que, não raras vezes,
contraditório, no processo de construção dos/as jovens como indivíduos. Em síntese,
consideramos que os/as jovens construíam percursos de individuação, tendo como
suporte a expectativa de “ser alguém na vida”. Eles/as se constituíam como “híper-
indivíduos” diante da aventura permanente de enfrentar desafios. Assim, a maneira
como os/as jovens viviam tornava-se para eles/as uma solução biográfica das
contradições sistêmicas.
Palavras-chave: Jovens. Trabalho. Escolarização.
ABSTRACT
This dissertation results from research carried out with young former workers of the
Brazilian Red Cross (CVB) who worked at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
(UFMG) from 2011 to 2013. The research aimed to understand how paths of
individuation have been configured among youth, paying attention to the intersection
between work and schooling. It takes into consideration the processes of socialization in
place five years after this youth had left the university. The theoretical-methodological
pathway sought to give a sociological zoom in the individual plots, stories, and dramas
of young people by considering authors of the sociology of youth, of work, and
education, as well as the sociology of the individual. Therefore, we wove analyses that
sought to articulate the experiences of young people in the family, work, and schooling.
As for the methodological approaches, we had 95 young people responding to a survey
aiming to build their profiles, and we developed individual interviews with nine of them.
Biographical narratives were expressed in "sociological scenes" that revealed the
movement and dynamics that permeated young people lives who were immersed in
multiple socializing instances. These scenes evidenced how each one of them faced
their challenges and what were their supports. Among the results, we found a
homogeneity concerning labor paths of these youth through their insertion in the service
sector taking jobs seen as precarious. Although, the heterogeneous manner in which
young people lived, struggled and faced the world of work also stood out. The
experiences of young former workers of the CVB were marked by unique ways of (re)
existing to precarious work processes through their supports. Thus, young people
questioned and also refused to accept some jobs which were "destined" to them. Their
reasons, among other things, were related to the work experience they had at UFMG. In
the scope of schooling processes, the narratives mostly reflected the lack of articulation
between school longevity projects and the objective conditions of the young.
Nonetheless, young people used different supports and strategies to become students
and to reach higher education or other projects. Families, especially mothers, have a
significant place, functioning as important support, but also and quite often contradictory,
in the process of constructing young people as individuals. In summary, we consider
that the young people in this research constructed their pathways of individuation,
having as support the expectation of “becoming something in life.” They constituted