SOCIOCULTURAL PATTERNS: PARENTING EXPERIENCES IN A NATIVE COMMUNITY

Abstract

The upbringing of infants in native communities in various latitudes of the world has generated concern by governments, politicians and researchers, because in many cases they are vulnerable population segments. In this sense, the research was oriented to analyze experiences of raising infants of a native community within the framework of social and cultural patterns. Phenomenological design was used with a qualitative approach and a sample that was integrated by mothers of infants from the native Yanesha community of Tsachopen, province of Oxapampa, Pasco region, Peru. The data were collected with individual interviews, which allowed to process the discourses related to the reality lived and felt by the informants. It was found that parenting experiences respond to certain sociocultural patterns such as the identity and heritage culture of the community, which is threatened by the progressive loss of language and the presence of foreign elements, as well as there is a gradual eradication of 'punishment' for persuasive practices in the line of correcting behaviors; Likewise, there is the claim for the apathy of the State in terms of education and the implementation of the vast regulations issued to protect members of vulnerable populations, such as children from native communities, such as the Yanesha.