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- Title
Estrategia metodológica para el estudio de las identidades y las representaciones sociales: de los jóvenes consumidores de drogas Estudio de caso en Jalisco, México.
- Authors
Ramírez Ortiz, María Guadalupe
- Abstract
The objective of this paper is to present the methodological strategy for the study of the socio-cultural construction of the identity of drug-using students (ECD) to know if their representations influence the construction of a social identity susceptible to social exclusion. In that sense, the focus for the study of this problem is anthropological and ethnographic work was carried out during 2004-2007. The collection of information was through the application of protocols for the observation of contexts, as well as interviews with several key actors, and thematic oral histories of ECDs. Thematic content analysis was applied. Information between sources was also triangulated. ECDs were represented as lacking a school identity bond, young people who do not internalize school norms, an issue that allows teachers to deny them the opportunity to progress academically, thus legitimizing their educational exclusion. The use of drugs (CD) and other practices (participating in fights, stealing, selling drugs, evading authority) were representative of their individual and collective identity. These practices were not assumed as a product of decision, but were part of their primary socialization. Institutions should interpret the meanings that young people give to CD and associated practices, not impose values and practice around drug rejection. They should aim at equalizing possibilities of social integration, overcoming socio-economic conditions and freeing young people from stigmatizing constructions.
- Subjects
MEXICO; YOUTH &; drugs; SUBSTANCE use of youth; COLLECTIVE representation; IDENTITY (Psychology); DRUG abuse; YOUTH; SOCIOCULTURAL factors
- Publication
Estudios Sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 46, p163
- ISSN
1405-2210
- Publication type
Article