La construction sociale de la sexualite chez des adolescents vivant en situation de pauvrete a Belem, etat du Para, Bresil: Dispositifs de sexualite et d'alliance selon Michel Foucault

There is a discourse, gaining in popularity every day in academic and professional environment, which is reproduced in family and socio-cultural day-to-day life, regarding an adolescence perceived as problematic, a stage of crisis with which it is difficult to negotiate. Based on the writings of Foucault (1976), it is possible to think that this concern enters into the western construct of apparatus of sexuality. Based on this concept, the objective of this research project was to identify the possible constructs of one or more apparatus of sexuality in adolescents living in poverty in Brazil (Belem, Para). The research methodology selected was a qualitative assessment using an ethnographic approach consisting in describing and interpreting a socio-cultural system or group (Creswell, 1998). The principal data collection technique, in addition to ethnographic observation and documentary analysis, was face-to-face in-depth interviews based on open questions. Fourteen adolescents living in the same underprivileged Belem neighbourhood were observed and interviewed, as well as their parents. The data analysis, carried out using Bardin's content analysis (1977), revealed a apparatus of sexuality among the adolescents, parents and teachers interviewed based on the school, the church, the media and the State, which was described as a apparatus of safe sex whereas a apparatus of alliance, within the meaning of Foucault, was described after analysis and confirmation of the data as an alliance of the powerful. These results, with new information on an Amazonian sexuality arising from local Boto and Iara legends, cast new light on the question of the social construct of sexuality among adolescents living in poverty in Belem in the Brazilian state of Para and led to specific recommendations to improve research and professional practices.;Key words: Apparatus of sexuality, Apparatus of alliance, Foucault, Adolescence, Poverty, Belem, Brazil.