As representações sociais de estudantes universitários sobre o sistema de cotas para negros e alunos de escola pública

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Sônia Chaves
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15307
• topic: Affirmative actions; Social representations; Discriminação racial; Negros - Educação; Representações sociais; Universidades e faculdades públicas - Brasil; Ações afirmativas; Sistema de cotas na universidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

This study aimed to analyze, describe and compare social representations about the system of quotas for black students and for public school's students developed by university students of UERJ, considering the possible occurrence of counternormative positions in the expression of these representations. Participating students were from more and less competitive courses, freshmen and seniors. The methodology was guided by the structural approach of social representations theory. The technique of free evocations was applied, and the inductive term was about quotas for black students and quotas for students from public schools. The subjects were 240 students, evenly divided by two interviewers, one black and one white. From evocations produced, the data were analyzed by building a framework of four houses with the help of software Evoc 2003. The results show that students have an attitude built around the normative dimension of representation, including bad points to the system of quotas for black people, with the elements of racism and prejudice as a possible core. Regarding to the quotas for public school's students, it presents the elements fair and poor education's quality as possible constituents of the core. The representation was more consensus in this type of quota, pointing to the importance of improving the quality of public education. In assessing the various types of quotas, there were differences in the positions between the applicators.front of the white applicator, three types of quotas were not rejected, the quotas for indigenous people, for public schools and for the handicapped people. However, facing the black applicator, it is observed that quotas for indigenous and for handicapped have transformed radically. In the case of quotas for indigenous people, this attitude would be justified by the impossibility of refusing quotas for black students and accept other forms of quotas with racial criteria.