Open AccessA Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnancy in the Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina
Author(s) -
Juan Carlos Aguiló
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of social sciences, transformations and transitions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2792-3843
DOI - 10.52459/josstt12100122
Subject(s) - teenage pregnancy , habitus , cultural capital , sociology , incidence (geometry) , social capital , pregnancy , population , low income , capital (architecture) , gender studies , social class , demographic economics , psychology , socioeconomics , demography , political science , geography , social science , economics , archaeology , physics , biology , law , optics , genetics
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.