Famílias monoparentais: a construção da identidade das mulheres chefes de agregados familiares no Bairro de Magoanine A-2017

Abstract

The present paper aims to understand the ways that women heads of families (households) use in the construction of their identity. The study was carried out in Maputo, in the Magoanine "A" neighborhood. It was used as theoretical support, the Perspective of the Social Construction of Reality of Berger and Luckman (1978, 2004). These authors show that social reality is built on social processes. processes. Therefore, identity is a key element of subjective reality. The formation and preservation of identity are determined in the social structure during social relations, maintaining or modifying it. Once formed, identity is maintained and modified in these social relations. The study followed a qualitative line, which allowed a greater understanding of the attitudes, values, and representations of representations of the interviewees in the process of social construction of the identity of women heads of households. This qualitative method allowed us to get to know the motivations of the the target population and was able to reach the essence of this social reality. The study showed the existence of women heads of households who were abandoned by their spouses. by their spouses. Others, on their own initiative, broke away from their marriages due to various factors. Still others are heads of households on their own initiative. The latter, As soon as they reached maturity they sought to establish their own domestic units. It was also found that women heads of households construct their identity using the knowledge they have acquired in their using the knowledge they have acquired in their life trajectory by maintaining their households without the households without the presence of a spouse. In this way, a break with traditional conceptions and opens the field to a new paradigm on single-parent households headed households headed by women. Women heads of households do not cease to have distinctive characteristics as women, even though they are at the head of their households in terms of the values and norms they possess. Society tends to change regarding stigmatization, seeing female-headed households as fully headed by women as full-fledged households. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)