Author:

• Patrícia Déa Braga - Patrícia Déa Braga - Vitória, ES - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - <ppgasc@npd.ufes.br>

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Abstract:

Once, with the great aesthetic concern with the corporal one demonstrated by these adolescents, the current study had as objective to know and analyse the social representations of body between adolescents of popular classrooms. One was about an inquiry of carried through qualitative boarding with a group of diligent adolescents tied with the Centro Salesiano do Menor (Vitória/ES). A random sample was selected from a list of 334 adolescents. Eight girls and seven boys had been boarded by means of not-structuralized interview. From the analysis of what they said, was used the theory of the Social Representations. The results had pointed that the body perception, as much for boys how much toward the girls, is come back toward the ideas of proportionality, normality and perfection. About the consequences of not having the ideal body, both had pointed situations as: exclusion, illnesses, misfortune and even death. To deepen the knowledge on the opinion, the thoughts and feelings of the relative adolescents to the body, supplies to subsidies interventions in this group, extending significantly the scope of performance in the area of the health.

Keywords: Body Image; Adolescence; Consumer Society

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