Meninos e meninas na rua: impasse e dissonância na construção da identidade da criança e do adolescente na República Velha

Abstract

This article analyses the construction of child's and adolescent's identity in an important moment of the history of São Paulo city, the passage to this century. In a few words, it intends to confront the life of poor children and adolescents with the images constructed by different discourses about childhood and adolescence in Brazilian society.

Childhood; Adolescence; Juvenile Delinquency; Juvenile Work