Representações sociais do enriquecimento entre estudantes secundaristas de três escolas de João Pessoa

Abstract

The object of this study was to compare three groups of secondary students on the way of explaining enrichment. 316 Ss belonguing to three schools of João Pessoa had been studied; which 98 were from a nocturne public school (1), 121 from a private nocturn school (2) and 97 from a private day school (3). The Ss of 1 e 2 had a job and those of only was studying. Through interviews about wealth and poverty, nine explaining- factors of enrichment had been identifyed, which had been applyed of the same population in scales of importance. The Ss 013 had put the explininq factors on the following order of decreasing importance: instrument (I), Collective Action (CA), Anomic Deviation (AO), Change (C), Nature (N), Individual Action (IA), Sociability 9S), Conformity (Co) and Providence (P); as for the 1 and 2 shcools we had got Co, S, P, N, IA, C, I, AO anc CA. These results had been discurssed from the viewpoinl of the occupation of the groups on the social structure and from the way of insertion of the same groups on the psychosocial dynamic of the contemporary Brazllian society.