Abstract

RODRIGUEZ DE AVILA, Ubaldo et al. Social representations about the environment in middle and high school students in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.2, pp.301-314.  Epub July 01, 2019. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.3678.

The present article aims at describing the content, organization and meaning of the Social Representation of the environment, admitting from its point of view that a phenomenon allows for different interpretations, from the epistemological paradigm of interpretative approaches, of qualitative type, with processing techniques quantitative information. 280 students of middle and higher education in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia participated, 54 % women 46 % men. A prototypical and lexicographic analysis of the Social Representation (SR) was made, based on the technique of content analysis and discourse theory. A total of 1684 words or evoked expressions were found, of which 194 are different words (1 different word per person), and several categories were identified to understand the organization and structure of the meaning of SR of the Environment. The results are discussed considering the theory of Social Representations to the extent that there is no evidence of heterogeneity in the Social Representation of the Environment.

Keywords : Social Representation; environment; content analysis.

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