"Redes cibernéticas: Um motor de mudança nas relações de poder entre pais e filhos, no bairro de Malhangalene"

Abstract

The present work of monograph that has as study subject, teenagers using cyber networks and their respective parents, seeks to understand how the cyber networks as a socializing agent can affect the power relations in the transmission of knowledge from parents to children. The study was carried out in Maputo city, concretely at Malhangalene quarter, where the target research group live. The study has as theoretical support, the Interactional approach of Mead (2007), articulated with the concept of Symbolic Power of Bourdieu (2001). We defend the argument that the use of cybernetic networks by teenagers influences the relationship between parents and children, since it weakens the parents power over their children in the transmission of knowledge. Based on the qualitative approach, it was possible to verify that teenagers have cybernetic networks as a socializing agent, as they obtain knowledge and information about sexuality, crime, and other aspects that were not transmitted by their parents during the primary socialization. From this, it was possible to verify a rupture with regarding to the knowledge transmitted by parents and the one of the cybernetic networks. The data allow us to conclude that, the use of cybernetic networks by teenagers brought a change in the relations between parents and children, where the power of the parents over the children in the transmission of knowledge became fragile with the introduction of new habits and knowledge obtained in these networks. The use of cybernetic networks by teenagers also made it possible to observe the reversal of roles, where the father learns from his children, aspects related to technology.