REDES SOCIAIS VIRTUAIS, SOCIABILIDADE JUVENIL: os sentidos atribuídos por um grupo de jovens do ensino médio da rede pública de educação de Porangatu.

Abstract

The present dissertation is linked to the line of research “Education, Society and Culture” of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás. It wanted to understand which ways a high school youth group from public education network of Porangatu establish virtual social networks. It comes from Karl Marx, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz, Juarez Dayrell, José Machado Pais, Gilberto Velho conceptions, among others to delimit the scope of social, cultural and the young cultures relations processes. While for the study social networks it resorts to authors like Pierre Lévy, Manuel Castells and Raquel da Cunha Recuero. It aims to highlight the formation of young sociability processes from virtual social networks with emphasis on social-historical approaches of cultures and young cultures in order to establish a list of ways of being young people and their cultures in the contemporary world. To understand the social and cultural dimension, with the field of sociability relationships built from the virtual world, it chose the qualitative research that it had caracteristic that correspond to the need of this research. The final considerations show that sociability relations are multiple, occurring either in person or virtually. But even that sociability is currently enhanced by virtual meetings it was found that the physical presence, the face-to-face has not lost its importance in the process of social relationships of young people. It also demonstrates that the youth group establish a sense of belonging of being together that allow them to be real groups in virtual social networks. It contacted although cyberspace is in another place of meeting, sharing groups, the front communities the experiences made in both physical and virtual spaces.