Abstract

TOBON BERRIO, Luz Estela; SABATIER, Colette; PALACIO SANUDO, Jorge Enrique  and  NAVARRO, Oscar. The social representation of the rights of children: legality built by fathers and mothers. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.44, n.2, pp.243-265.  Epub Apr 06, 2022. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v44n2.87666.

The theory of social representations applied to the field of the sociology of law allows us to investigate the collective reconstruction of the legal that occurs in the daily interactions of ordinary people, beyond the official manifestations of law. In this article the theory of social representations from the structuralist school (Abric, 2001) dialogues with the legal consciousness studies-LCS (Ewick and Silbey, 2004) aiming to understand legality built by a group of 79 parents from the city of Barranquilla around the object Children's Rights. The semantic universe and the representational structure of the object were characterized from the evocations expressed by the participants. Data was collected by applying the associative networks technique (De Rosa, 1995). The information treatment was carried out with two techniques, prototypical analysis (Vergès, 1992) supported by the EVOC software (2003), and the construction of an emerging narrative following the proposal of Strauss and Corbin (2012) of analysis using the conceptual analytical tool of paradigm. The results show that children's rights are an object of representations that has crossed the borders of technical legal language and circulates among parents thanks to a semantic field contextualized within the framework of the family educational task. The reworking of the legal message regarding the rights of infants through representations of parents has as its axis the recognition of protection and benefits rights. The freedoms are found as latent elements of representation. Terms referring to feelings like love have a strong presence in the central system. They are affective states that permeate the construction of representation and provide cohesion to the representational system, showing that representations are also a feeling that manages to link a human group.

Descriptors: family, human rights, legal sciences, parenting, sociology.

Keywords : associative network; children's rights; legal consciousness studies; prototypical analysis; social representations; sociology of law.

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