La construcción social de la violencia en un grupo de jóvenes de ambos sexos de escuela pública intermedia / The social construction of violence in a group of young people of both sexes in a public middle school

In this article we will address some factors that promote violence in schools from the youth viewpoint. We present an overview of what young people understand about violence; in which way its take places; in what forms they express it; and what aspects they consider more important than others. At the same time, it compares the social construction of violence on both, boys and girls, and describe how violence is interpreted from the gender perspective. The latter means that assumption of violent behavior varies with the gender of the person describing it. In other words, any project that pretends to promote schools free of violence need to deal with gender issues. Finally, I will share a few general considerations about what we may call social construction of violence in young people and its implications for a violence prevention project.