Representações sociais das cotas raciais no ensino superior: o pensamento social dos estudantes do ensino médio

Abstract

As affirmative actions are public policies that aim to guarantee copyright among citizens. The main affirmative action used in Brazil is the quota system, with a reduction in inequalities between people of different races, since blacks have historically been denied their rights - better living, working and study conditions. Whenever they are used, such as discussions about the dividend quota system, for several factors. It became an imperative of research in social psychology. For such research, a theory of Social Representations proposed by Serge Moscovici was used, which he defined as social representations as the scientific study of common sense. The main objective of this research was to investigate and how social representations about quotas for blacks when entering universities, from the social thought of high school students, and to compare the results between public and private networks. Questionnaires with free recall tasks were used, which were analyzed using the iramuteq software (prototypical analysis and similarity) and how open questions were analyzed by content. For most respondents, regardless of education and race / ethnicity, racial quotas are important for the inclusion of blacks in universities.