Motivações dos jovens para o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas: uma análise a partir do Bairro Central, na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the motivations of young people for the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Thus, this work will be followed in the light of the socio-cultural perspective that distances itself from the perspective according to which individuals consume alcoholic beverages because they are biologically predetermined to consume. From this exploratory study, and using the ethnographic method, we tried to reconcile what we found in the field through semi-structured interviews and observation to identify the motivations that lead young people to start drinking alcoholic beverages early. We also identified that young people often consume alcoholic beverages in order to achieve certain goals, and that their action is done in a reflexive, conscious or unconscious way. We also found that the relationships that young people have are based on these expectations, which makes them build these social interactions in the practice of their day-to-day activities in the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. We also perceive that they act in this way due to the innumerable misunderstandings that they have within their families, which is constituted from a permanently fragile and precarious social order in order to be understood. Thus, when integrating themselves in certain groups, young people are obliged to develop all kinds of language used by the other members in a spontaneous way, naturally exhibiting the social competence that adds them to this group in order to be recognized and accepted by the others. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)