Relational child development and well-being

Abstract

Abstract: This research is part of a Ph.D. thesis, whose objective is to identify the networks and their relationships moved by subjects, children and adults, to configure development and well-being. In other words, in childhood policies aimed at them, relational goods that are of interest to this research are exchanged. The approach method for the present study was ethnography, the same tool that helped to understand the children´s environment and learn about their agency. In this space two systems interact: micro and macro, the micro is where the primary relationships are disrupted and the macro where instrumentalization is a condition, both give place to the meso system as a space where the networks become more complex and the contingency gives rise to informality. In these systems, other actor´s networks intervene moved by subjects whose symbolic exchange is development and well-being, hence, social change makes sense. Within these findings, children's participation is visible.