Among risks, protection, and lessons learned

Perspectives of Brazilian rural families about work in adolescence

Bibliographic Data

ID12388127
AuthorsRamiro Rodrigues Coni Santana (0000-0003-3306-6359, Federal University of Bahia Salvador Bahia Brazil, corresponding author), Marilena Ristum (0000-0003-4511-2199, Instituto de Psicologia, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Universidade Federal da Bahia, Federal University of Bahia Salvador Bahia Brazil)
Year2023
Volume34
Issue2
Pages452-465
Publication date2023-12-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Research on Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1050-8392 • E-ISSN: 1532-7795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jora.12903
PMID38063238
OpenAlexW4389489785
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited44

Adolescents working in the Brazilian rural contexts were investigated through participant observation and interviews, aiming at understanding the role played by work in the nurturing of adolescent in these contexts. The qualitative and longitudinal survey involved six participants who were members of two different families, as follows: four female adolescents, one adult woman, and one adult man. It was found that adolescents and their families understood work as a context for nurturing moral values, learning skills, and meeting needs. Observation, however, found that work also involved exposure to risks. The study reviews the role of work in adolescence as a cultural component in some rural contexts and how this should be taken into account to avoid an ethnocentric and universalistic interpretation that divides adolescence between "normal" and "abnormal

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Ethnocentrism · Interpretation (philosophy · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Children's Rights and Participation · Community Health and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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