Jeunes de banlieues. Construction identitaire, représentations de la sexualité et comportements sexuels a risque

Abstract

The suburbs of Paris are shared between towns and neighbourhoods with different social characteristics, defining personal behaviours and social representations at the most intimate spheres like sexuality. From the observation of student’s populations, we try in this paper to evaluate the importance of social condition and school contexts over sexual behaviour and representations, as well as their knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and practices regarding HIV infection. My purpose was to understand the configurations and layouts of the representations and behaviours by taking into account the scholar, social and cultural contexts of the subjects. The sexual representations and experiences of individuals are too marked by the gender they belong to, which induces social roles and differentiated ideals and determines behaviours, namely those that concern the body and sexuality. The speeches of young people questioned in an ethnological investigation on sexual representations and existences in the Eastern suburb of Paris, denounce the opposition between feminine and masculine values, and show the difference between the representations and behaviours of young males and females.

Authors and Affiliations

Marta Maia

Keywords

Related Articles

Bringing the doctor inside the care: the use of stories in doctor-patient communication

Narrative-Based Medicine is a recent important area of research and practice which aims to provide theoretical and empirical constructs for medical practice and doctor-patient communication. In health services, medical p...

Social closure and social policy The debates on social opening within benefit societies in the advent of national health insurance

Social solidarity is based on categories of belonging; trade unions rely on their members’ selfunderstanding as trade fellows and nation states on the ‘imagined’ (Anderson 2006 [1983]) common identity of their population...

The colonization of a celebration: The transformations of Krsna Slava

The article discusses the Slava, or Krsna Slava – traditionally, a Serbian Orthodox celebration of a family’s patron saint. During Real Socialism, the custom was disapproved by the régime because of its religious content...

Paratext and meaning-making in indie games

The essay discusses the role of paratext in framing players’ experience of videogames, focusing on the indie game scene and specifically examining three types of paratext: game title, game description, and the readme fil...

The role of the Internet in shaping environmental concern. A focus on post-communist Europe

Common sense, as well as scientific evidence, frequently use the generalization that compared to the citizens of the West, citizens of the ex-communist countries are less environmentally concerned as far as during the co...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP155460
  • DOI -
  • Views 93
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Marta Maia (2010). Jeunes de banlieues. Construction identitaire, représentations de la sexualité et comportements sexuels a risque. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 1(1), 73-89. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-155460