A representação social de governo e a teoria do Estado

Abstract

This research was developed with the objective to contribute to a bather understanding of the state and knowledge of social representations over the government. Six hundred subjects participated in this study, university students studying law, social services and economy from one of the universities in Goiânia. To know the description presented by these three groups, the Center for Social Representations Nucleus theory was used. This research was dividend into two parts with the intention of collecting data, there hundred subjects at first and another three hundred after. For the decomposition of the results from the inductor term. In the second s stage, the results were submitted to an investigation called the similitude analysis that results in joining salient and less salient words presented by the subjects researched in the first stage. These results produced a synthetic picture of relevant words in reference to each one of the groups. Founded upon this information. Pairs of words were presented to the subjects in whom they had to construct phrases, the results hound wire the object of analysis of the context that presented a superficial and functional perspective in relation to social representation of the government. The subjects are all still active academic students therefore not having a structured knowledge, giving the impression that they didn t perceive the government as being important. The resulting conclusion was that there was no social representation in the exact meaning of the word, it is dispersed or is part of another representation.