Preconceito, identidade e representações sociais: relações intergrupais de estudantes indígenas e não indígenas no ambiente acadêmico

• Autor(a) principal: Patatas, Luisa do Amparo Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6980
• topic: Representações sociais; Identidade social; Preconceito; Indígenas; Social representations; Social identity; Prejudice; Indigenous; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The increase of intergroup contact between indigenous and non-indigenous has expanded the number of conflict situations especially in areas where exist greater demand by lands for agriculture and cattle raising. In the state of Mato Grosso, this intergroup contact has been aggravated not only due to the population growth and the assumption of ethnic identity, but also, because the struggle for rights and affirmative action s that have been promoting new contexts for intergroup experiences. Based on that, the aim of this thesis was to apprehend the social representations concerning the identity and prejudice elaborated by indigenous and non-indigenous students from the Federal University of Mato Grosso. In order to achieve these aims the Theory of Social Representations, the Theory of Intergroup Relationships and the Theory of Social Identity guided this study. This research counted on two empirical studies: the first aimed at apprehending the social representations of indigenous students about their group and their experiences at the academic environment. This study included 34 students who answered biossociodemographic and thematic questionnaires. The data were submitted to the softwares SPSS version 21 and ALCESTE respectively. The results indicated that the social representations elaborated by the indigenous students are diversified by who represent them and in which contexts the participants are included. The indigenous university students who intend coming to the city are represented by elements which point to the perseverance; dedication and will strength for accomplish their goals. The social representations which brought out concerning their decision making and their experiences of facing the challenges revealed that everything has been done for the welfare of the community. The second study aimed at identifying the occurrence of prejudice in the relationships between both groups by means of positive and negative characteristics attributed to the indigenous and the cuiabanos by university non indigenous students, according to their thoughts and also concerning the way of thinking the society. This study counted on 160 university non indigenous students who answered biossociodemographic and thematic questionnaires. The data obtained of these two instruments were processed by the statistical package SPSS version 21 and analyzed by means of descriptive statistic (mean and standard deviation). The results revealed that the students are aware about the existence of the prejudice in Brazil. They believe that the Brazilian society attributes mainly negative characteristics as lazy and apathetic for the indigenous and the cuiabanos, in other hand, they themselves are happy and hardworking persons. It is expected the obtained findings may contribute for expanding the knowledge concerning the way the intergroup relationships occur, as well as, the shapes of the prejudice brought out at the academic environment.