title: Everyday representations of young people about peripheral areas.
abstract: to understand everyday representations of young people about the peripheral areas, with the purpose of establishing topics to drug education media programs.
  Marxist approach, with emancipatory action research and the participation in workshops of 13 youngsters from a public school of the peripheral area of São Paulo.
  there are contradictory everyday representations about the State's role, which, on the one hand, does not guarantee social rights and exert social control over the peripheral areas and, on the other hand, is considered the privileged interlocutor for the improvement of life and work conditions.
  the action research discussed mainly topics related to social rights context, claim of the young participants. It is necessary to expand the discussion beyond the citizenship rights sphere, which is only part of the debate about social inequalities inherent in capitalist exploitation and the necessary transformations to build equality policies.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. São Paulo-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Elda de
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. São Paulo-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Cassia Baldini
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Departamento de Relações Públicas Propaganda e Turismo. São Paulo-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Leandro Leonardo
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Batista
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012935:Social Justice; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*