Etnología de tres estudios etnográficos sobre la salud y la sexualidad de los(as) jóvenes de las ciudades del Departamento de Santander (Colombia): Mogotes, San Joaquín y El Playón

Abstract

The ethnology assembles the results of three researches developed by the author of the text in Mogotes, San Joaquin and El Playon, three municipalities of Santander, Colombia, which population does not exceed 4.000 habitants. In these ethnographic studies in young people, enrolled in school, between the 13 and 19 years, they narrate in groups of discussion, their sexual behaviors, sexual culture and needs in sexual health and reproductive health. The qualitative investigation allowed to obtain a holistic vision, comprehensive and framed in a context of the phenomena related with health care, from which was designed an informative and preventive strategy that is implemented nowadays. The socio-critical paradigm grants voice to the student as active subject of the learning process and transforms the communication into an instrument for change. The narrative allows us to interpret the deep complexity of the human nature immersed in situations related to health-disease, due to the fact that they are not linear reducible phenomena. The ethnology made possible to characterize men and women, creating basis for the design of informative and educational strategies, under the statement that young people have the right to have education for the Sexuality, as part of the education for the citizenship; justified, not in religious beliefs, but in results of ethnographies and ethnologies.