O CATECISMO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA E A CONSTRUÇÃO SÓCIO-CULTURAL DA CONCEPÇÃO DE MULHER

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of the research, in which is presented the role of the Catecism of the Catholic Church in the social-cultural construction of the conception of woman. To produce it, it was appealed you arrive in port it theoretical of philosophy, of history, of linguistics, but, mainly, of anthropology and sociology, generating a theoretical and methodologic interdisciplinary basement. The construction of the social-cultural conception of woman, in the catecism, occurs for the dialetic process of construction of the reality (externalization, objectivation and internalization), that reproduces the patriarcal, dualist and hierarchic substratum of the occidental Jewish-Christian culture and society. As the culture consists on the totality of the material and not-materials products of the humanity, the society and the religion are among these products of the human activity that has reached the status of objective reality guiding, sanctioning, to control and punish the individual behavior. Therefore, the construction of the social-cultural conception of woman happens because of the internalization for the individuals of a set of institutions and roles endowed with objective reality legitimated for the religion, through the sacralization. Key-words: Culture, Society, Social-Cultural, Religion, Catholic Church, Catecism of the Catholic Church, Gender and Woman.