Abstract EN:

The aim of this study is to understand how teenagers from a poor neighbourhood, many of them of foreign origin, build their identity confronting themselves with social, sexual and ethnic differences. How do boys and girls acquire their specificities ? How do social and urban environment, mass culture, family, ethnic and religious factors and school play a part in this process ? hese high school students' neighbourhood is quite typical of the French suburbs, but it's quiet. The teenagers share their life between their families, which have varied profiles, their friends, who value the youth's customs but also their origins and their religion, and the school, where they acquire a specific identity, which is not the same for boys and girls, and where they must think of their future. Or these teenagers, familial, religious and school values converge. Differences due to school tend to supplant social differences, but this evolution can be stopped when there is no social promotion.