Corrupção: análise do fenômeno a partir de estudantes do ensino médio.

Abstract

This thesis aimed to petition for an analysis of the phenomenon of corruption. The starting point was initially an investigation by means of qualitative and quantitative research with discourse analysis, in which we sought to realize the social representations that the students of the State School of Elementary and Secondary Education Senator Joseph Gaudêncio in the City of Sierra White-PB have on the said topic. It was also our intention to point out the concept of corruption and their meanings in Brazilian imagination, as well as observe some practices of corruption among high school students. Approach, so the topic from its origin, how it has spread rapidly across the country since colonization, highlighting patrimonialism and warmth of the Brazilian man as having been a fertile ground for such dissemination. Also we discus about what Leonardo Avritzer called naturalization and feeling of invincibility that some authors have about corruption, and also on the second Avritzer degradation and other thinkers this practice causes the credibility of institutions and consequently the maintenance and consolidation of the democratic process. The result shows that although there is certain knowledge by the students on the said topic, this is still very incipient. It was also observed that for most of them is still that idea of corruption relate only to politics and politicians.