Educación, Formación e Investigación (Dec 2016)

EXPERIENCIAS, AGENCIA E INFANCIAS: UN CAMPO DE DEBATES

  • Rocio Fatyass,
  • Isabel Andrea Iriarte,
  • Lucila Remondetti

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4

Abstract

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Esta publicación retoma los avances de una investigación en curso y se propone abordar teóricamente la clásica dicotomía estructura-sujeto desde una perspectiva sociológica, con la intensión de discutir algunas posiciones teóricas-metodológicas que permitan evidenciar la agencia y experiencias de las infancias de clases populares. Se sostiene que la construcción de infancias está atravesada por relaciones sociales que reproducen desigualdades sociales de clase y edad; estos procesos no son totales dado que los/as niños/as encuentran posibilidades de agencia, según prácticas, identidades y relaciones específicas, para ir re-significando sus condiciones de existencia y de subordinación.Palabras claves: Agencia, experiencias, clases-populares, infancias.Abstract This publication resumes the advances of an ongoing research and proposes to theoretically address the classical dichotomy structure subject from a sociological perspective, with the intention of discussing some theoretical-methodological positions that allow to analyze the agency and the experiences of the infancy of the popular classes.It is argued that childhood construction is traversed by social relations that reproduce social inequalities of class and age, but these processes are not total since children find possibilities of agency, according to practices, identities and specific relationships, to go re-meaning their conditions of existence and subordination.By means of the concepts of agency and experience that are discussed in this work, without pretensions of closed definitions, it is explained at a theoretical level that the practices and meanings that the infants of popular classes do not reproduce the adult and dominant order, but re-produce it according to specific symbolizations, values ​​and affectivities. Child agency, which may be dispositional or involve a certain state of consciousness, shows how children "solve" (materially and symbolically) their living spaces, from heterogeneous practices that enable challenges to the established order, without necessarily "breaking" with hegemonic relations between groups.Keywords: Agency, experiences, lessons-popular childhoods.

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