As representações sociais e as relações de estigmatização sobre os usuários de maconha.

Abstract

The present study comes with the intention of going through the relations that are established between users and non-users of marijuana, taking as perspective the perceptions of both on the drug and its user. In this way, we intend to analyze how the Social Representations, from authors such as Minayo, Jodelet, Moscovici, Goffman, are built and passed around this issue and how they enable the formation of stigmas that generate the stigmatization processes that exist in the social environment as a whole; taking as locality and source of research, resident subjects inserted in the reality of the city of Sobral / CE. Trying to perceive the visions about the use and user of marijuana, semi-structured interviews and participant observations were carried out as methodology for data collection, both for non-users and for the users of the substance, given to subjects from 18 years of age onwards, included in several social classes. In this sense, concepts such as Stigma and Social Representations were adopted to seek deeper analysis and comprehension of how are configured the perceptions and ideals about the question and, with this, we sought to promote reflections about how marijuana is conceived as a drug, tracing its historical context in Brazil and comparing with the current reality which we are inserted, seeking to perceive how these facts can influence the construction of SR and stigmatization relations. In this sense, what was possible to find in the field addressed was the concretization of the social representations about these users subjects, who were perfomed with unfavorable categorizations generating the stigmatization process.