Social representations of young people regarding the Social Outbreak of October 2019

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Social Outbreak; Protests; Social Representations; Chile youth

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Issue: No. 24 (2022): N°24, TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, agosto 2022
Section: Artículos de investigación empírica

Abstract

In October 2019, protests led by high school students in Santiago de Chile demanding quality and non-sexist education unleashed the largest social outbreak of the post-dictatorship period. This study explored the social representations about the Social Outbreak, with a free word association process in a sample of 455 young Chileans (M = 20.82 and DT = 3.25). For the analysis, separate word dictionaries were constructed for the participants, who self-identified in the left-right political spectrum. Descriptive and multivariate statistical analyzes were performed to graphically represent the dimensions that underlie their respective representations. It is evident that, although the representation of the social outbreak contains notions associated with a feeling of justice, for young people on the left it has connotations of a vindictive nature and for those on the right it is associated with criminal behavior.

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Francisco Infante Aravena
Universidad de Talca
Manuel Cárdenas Castro
Universidad de Talca
Infante Aravena, F., & Cárdenas Castro, M. (2022). Social representations of young people regarding the Social Outbreak of October 2019. TS Cuadernos De Trabajo Social, (24), 1-16. Retrieved from https://tscuadernosdetrabajosocial.cl/index.php/TS/article/view/229

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