Students’ identities in rural areas: a study based on Bourdieu’s and Althusser’s concepts

摘要

This study aims at interpreting the identity reconstruction of students of the rural school Colégio Estadual do Campo Adélia Rossi Arnaldi of Paranavaí/PR - Brazil, in the midst of the various socialization processes to which they have been submitted in their lives. The theoretical framework was based on Pierre Bourdieu’s (1930-2002) contributions on the concepts of habitus , fields and reproduction of social conditions, and the concept of ideology as understood by Louis Althusser (1918-1990). Data was collected through semi-structured and narrative interviews and analyzed according to Pecheux’s discourse analysis theory. We were able to identify, that even though the school is constituted as a ‘rural school,’ its practices impose an urban ideology, which is assimilated and influences the reconstruction of the student’s in the relationship with their families and the rural environment.