Papagaio, pira, peteca e coisas do gênero

Abstract

This study investigated the meaning of play‟s groups at street like a peer culture context, noticing them not only as forms of expression and reproduction of this culture but, principally as reconstruction and co-construction context of: sex roles, gender identity and sex role ideology. The study has included 689 people among 0 and 18 years old (440 boys – 249 girls), who played together and they were resident or visitant of three streets around there in a district of Belém/Pará, during one year. The data were collected through three procedures: description from the social and demographic aspects from the area through a formulate; the number of the groups activities of play using scan sampling and the quality of these activities done through the recording of episodes. The results reveal gender differences between the participation in the street and the variety of the play subculture. It was observed a predominance of boys in the street, segregation in plays and different strategies of interaction between two groups of gender. There were major approach girls to the male subculture, doing subversion strategies of ideologies and gender roles. As of three explicative models of human being development (Hinde, 1979, 1987 e 1997; Bronfenbrenner, 1977, 1994 e 1999 e Rossetti-Ferreira, Amorin, Silva & Carvalho, 2003), trying to discuss about the relation between macro and micro determination in the culture formation of gender in play groups. The data about groups composition, segregation, preferences, content and quality of sharing the gender groups sex/ gender, confirm the relation of gender formation and take to a proposition of a unilateral approach among these groups which the girls are the first.