Abstract

KOURY, Mauro Guilherme Pinheiro. Identity and belonging: moral and disciplinary dispositions in a group of youngsters. Etnográfica [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.1, pp.27-58. ISSN 0873-6561.

The article aims at the understanding of the sense of belonging and its relation with codes of trust and loyalty, categories here approached in the light of the fear of treason and individual uncertainty as to reaching the group’s ideals. Research was developed among a group of youngsters auto-characterised as an organization for the support and affirmative action of the youngsters living in poor neighbourhoods in the city of João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The objective of this study was to understand the internal organizational process of the group and the binding networks that are the base for sociability within the group.

Keywords : identity; trust; loyalty; moral dispositions; disciplinary dispositions; belonging.

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