Imaginarios sociales sobre la delincuencia juvenil en jóvenes de una institución educativa de la ciudad de Cali

Abstract

This degree project focuses on social imaginaries about the juvenile delinquency, therefore, the general objective of identifying the social imaginaries that a group of young people have about the incidence of Juvenile delinquency in a public educational institution in the city of Cali. For This, the postulates of different authors were taken into account, from the imaginary to Cornelius Castoriadis, Charles Taylor, Juan Pintos and José Cegarra, and for the concept of juvenile delinquency was taken into account by Esperanza Nieto, William Foote, among others. It should be said that the investigation has been guided from the cognitive and social perspective, since from these it was possible to solve the problem studied from the postulate of psychologist Albert Bandura and others authors. Regarding the methodology, a qualitative study of the type descriptive, designed from the phenomenological proposal with the purpose of find the beliefs, perceptions and meanings of young people about the criminal practices. Therefore, a semi-structured interview and a focus group interview to be implemented five participants between the ages of 15 and 18 who resided near the educational institution. Regarding the results, it was found that the imaginary are built through constant interaction with external agents, in addition to the close experiences they have had with young offenders; Likewise, they interpret crime as a problem of a social nature and legal that is caused by personal, social and family aspects, where infer that these young people can be identified by means of certain physical characteristics, clothing and others. Finally, they consider that sex male is more likely to belong to criminal groups than female women, due to body build issues and economic needs and groups to solve