A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnancy in the Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina

• AGUILO, Juan Carlos ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

     Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Journal of Social Sciences: Transformations & transitions, ISSN-e 2792-3843, Vol. 1, Nº. 2, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Current issue)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Our purpose is to contribute to the knowledge of the incidence of teenage pregnancy in the low-income sector of the Gran Mendoza by understanding them as part of their life strategies within the framework of their conditions of existence strongly impacted for low job opportunities and a reactive educational system. Pregnancy and motherhood in these adolescents are problematized considering that their incidence remains high compared to that for women of other social classes. We had chosen to know their opinions regarding their sexual and reproductive practices that drive them, or not, to the pregnancy and maternity. We think it is possible to argue that, in extreme conditions of social exclusion, with a lack of familiar support and limited cultural capital, teenagers tend to have sexual practices that drive them not to avoid pregnancies strongly influenced by traditional ideas regarding the role of women in society. On the contrary, when teenage women have bigger levels of cultural capital, dispute the reiterate tendencies of the traditional “class habitus” and report educational and professional life projects.

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    Aguilo, Juan Carlos (2022). "A sociological approach to the adolescent pregnancy in the low-income population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina" Journal of Social Sciences: Transformations & Transitions (JOSSTT) 1(02):10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52459/josstt12100122