Politics social representations and democracy ; Las representaciones sociales de la política y la democracia ; As representaçoes sociais da política e da democracia

This is a study of the social representations appears on the politics and democracy, elaborated by youth sample between 18 and 29 years old. For the analysis of these representations it has been used a method of free association of words as stimuli and one evaluation survey, that takes the form similar a semantic differential. The outputs obteined through the free association of words were analysed according of multivariated methods (hierarchical cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and correspondences analysis). The results on the image survey were summarized in four principal factors and compares averages for multiple categorization. The principal observed effect is the rejection, on the part of the subjects of the sample, to taking part across the institutional channels and by means of conventional methods of political action. His action indicates us that these young men, far from reducing importance to the political life, possess a novel meaning of the political thing and that it can be opposed to the most traditional definitions of the same one. On the other hand, his disenchantment is evident with the really existing democracy, there being able to be traced in his daily relations alternative forms of organization and that they consider to be nearer to his version of the democracy. ; Se presenta un estudio sobre las representaciones sociales de la política y la democracia, elaboradas por una muestra de jóvenes de entre 18 y 29 años de edad. Para el análisis de dichas representaciones se ha utilizado un método de asociación libre de palabras a un conjunto de estímulos y un cuestionario de evaluación, el cual toma la forma de un diferencial semántico. Los resultados obtenidos a través de la asociación libre de palabras son analizados por medio de métodos multivariados (análisis de conglomerados, escalamiento multidimensional y análisis de correspondencias). Los resultados del cuestionario de imagen son resumidos en cuatro factores principales cuyas medias son comparadas según diversos criterios de ...