Relationships between adolescent siblings

This book seeks to understand the meanings and significance that adolescent siblings attribute to the relationship between them. It also seeks to understand the phenomenon of adolescence from the perspective of Vigotski's socio-historical psychology. The concepts presented here based on socio-historical psychology (AGUIAR; OZELLA 2008; BOCK; GONÇALVES; FURTADO 2001; VIGOTSKI 1995) which form the basis of this book differ greatly from the understanding of what adolescence is not only in terms of common sense and the media but also in terms of medical science and the various psychological approaches based on the biomedical or medical-biological paradigm. In common sense adolescence is marked by stereotypes and stigmas and adolescents are seen as a problem popularly referred to as annoying. This book is based on qualitative research guided by Vigotski's socio-historical psychology which is based on Marxism and adopts historical and dialectical materialism as philosophy theory and method (BOCK; GONÇALVES; FURTADO 2001).