ABSTRACT

Discursively built as conflicting, rebels, difficult to get into the labor market, as subjects with a still undefined identity, nor children or adults; but also known as synonym of beauty, power, audacity, vigor, the young people live different moments in their lives, and have to deal with many misunderstandings about their particularities. This thesis has the main objective to understand the discourse of the High School students about their professional future and the influences they receive fromthe social voices that echo on their narratives when they face a decisive moment. Studies about youth show distinctive ways to deal with this theme, for example, to define when youth begins and when it ends. What is a young being and what youth depends on the perspective taken and on the theory chosen. Abramo (2005), Pais (2015) and Feixa (2015), among others form the conceptual ideas about youth and young, approaching the concept of youth from a historical point of view. This work parts from the idea that young people do not build themselves out of a social context, so it is important to consider how the social context change their life, the way they are socially organized and how they build their identityfacing contemporary social fragmentation. From this perspective, research is a social responsive action, and, in this case, the answer to some silences, so the relation between researcher and subjects part from the idea that language is dialogic, and its unity of analysis is the declarative act (BAKHTIN, 2009, 203, 2016). This is a qualitative and interpretative research. Its results show that High School students may be considered as part of a type of youth, among many other, and their discourse about profession present inner and outer ideas filled with social sayings, voices that show where they part from and how they shape their inner discourse.