The rumors of action: young people and reflexive dynamics in urban peripheries in southern Brazil

The article addresses the reflexivity notion, aiming a contextualized analysis in urban peripheries from southern Brazil. Therefore, the purpose is to understand how young people develop reflexive dynamics in socially vulnerable contexts, appropriating Martuccelli's contributions as references. The research included different techniques to dialogue with youngsters in Porto Alegre/RS city, where narrative-interactional dynamics with aesthetic-identity search for social recognition were observed, with more explicit propositional inflections among student activists.