Sexo inseguro: un análisis de la racionalidad como parte del riesgo entre jóvenes caleños y caleñas
This paper is framed within the ongoing debate about the concept of risk in the social and human sciences between the so-called realist current, which assumes that risk-taking behaviors are irrational and those that avoid risk are a product of rationality, and the position taken by social construc...
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Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Niñez y Juventud alianza de la Universidad de Manizales y el CINDE
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/collect/co/co-001/index/assoc/D9070.dir/art.TeresitaMSevilla.pdf |
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| Sumario: | This paper is framed within the ongoing debate about the concept of risk in the social and human sciences between the so-called realist current, which assumes that risk-taking behaviors are irrational and those that avoid risk are a product of rationality, and the position taken by social constructivism, which interprets risk-taking not as an isolated, irrational event, but as an answer to complex logics that are peculiar to the socio-cultural context where such option is taken. Supporting the latter position, this paper works out part of the results of an ethnographic study among youths form Cali, Colombia, conducted for a doctoral dissertation in sociology. The aims of the study were (1): to characterize the logics of rationality that uphold
certain practices in matters of sexuality, in the light of factors like gender and
SES, and (2): to analyze the conception of risk beyond its traditional negative
connotation, in order to explore the possible functions and positive values
assigned by the subjects coherently with their socio-economic environment.
Starting from the notions of gender analysis (in the dimensions or relationship,
historicity and power structures) and of SES (conceived as a category that goes
beyond the strictly economic aspects), it was possible to identify elements like a positive appraisal of not using condoms, gender differences in the selection of sexual partners, and the rewards offered by having a child at an early age. These elements, among others, play a fundamental role in the processes of risk negotiation. En this sense, it is argued that risk-taking behaviors are inserted in dense meaning fabrics strongly linked to social and contextual conditions. |
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