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- Title
Representaciones sociales de la discapacidad en estudiantes de nivel medio superior.
- Authors
Pérez Castro, Judith; Piña Osorio, Juan Manuel
- Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the social representations about disability in a group of high school students, from two Mexican cities: Oaxaca and Estado de México. The research was based on an associative method. For that purpose, we designed a questionnaire in which students were asked to write the three words that came into mind when they thought about «person with disability», and then to briefly explain the reason for each one. For the analysis of information, we used the natural semantic network technique. The complete network included 107 words, with a semantic weight of 587. Based on this diversity of expressions, we characterized four representations: Social, Medical-rehabilitative, Tragic-charity, and Optimistic. The first two representations had the highest semantic weight in the complete network, 223 and 184 respectively, meanwhile, the last two reached scores of 103 and 73 each. These outcomes may be seen as a contradiction; however, they show that social representations are not monolithic entities, on the contrary, they are the result of scientific knowledge and common sense; nor belong to a certain group, but they are the product of the information disseminated by the different socializing agents.
- Subjects
MEXICO (Mexico : State); OAXACA (Mexico : State); SCIENTIFIC knowledge; COLLECTIVE representation; CITIES &; towns; HIGH school students; COMMON sense; PEOPLE with disabilities
- Publication
Nova Scientia, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 29, p1
- ISSN
2007-0705
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21640/ns.v14i29.3100