In the last 50 years, social, cultural, political, economical and technological changes have been occurring which affect pre teens and teens behavior. This age group needs investigations on their economical world understanding and family role in the process of economical socialization. The main objective was characterize the economical understanding of 830 students aged 10 up to 15 years old from different socioeconomic levels who lives in São Paulo city. The Economical Literacy Test for children -ELT-C was the instrument used to comparative-descriptive and correlational drawing, based on a qualitative and quantitative approach. The frequency of categorical variables is presented; values of absolute and percentage frequency; average and standard-deviation and the alpha coefficient from Cronbach and the Chi-Square test were used. For the comparison of continuous or orderable measures were used the tests Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis. The results demonstrate an insufficient economical socialization to deal with the economical world demands.
economical socialization; economical literacy; social knowledge
