Imaginarios sociales de un grupo de estudiantes del Colegio República Dominicana, Sede B, JM, frente al cuerpo, la corporalidad y la imagen corporal

Abstract

The research was carried out in the town of Suba. Its objective was to understand the social imaginaries of a group of students of the Dominican Republic College, site B, J.M., on body and body image. It was developed from a qualitative approach, using the interview as a technique of data collection. This technique was applied to 8 students of 9º, 10º and 11º. The recordings were transcribed and the information was organized into an analysis matrix to categorize the data, according to the categories of analysis. The results showed adolescents related to a physical body to which capitalist society, supported by the media and social networks, associate a packaging that serves to show. Students strive to reach that imaginary through diets, fashion, gym, suffering and getting sick if they do not get the desired body image. The existence of a moderate deficit in the recognition and management of corporality and feelings, a dissatisfaction with body and body image, was also concluded, developing feelings of nonconformity, anger, depression. This, generates behaviors of isolation and aggression in its relations with the other people or with itself. It was determined the need to address, with the students, activities that provide the recognition of oneself, of the feelings and the emotions, to transcend and look for an existence that leaves a mark. Research serves as a starting point for the generation of knowledge in an area where the understanding of the imaginary about the body is incipient, contributing new scientific bases to the professional and scientific communities to address a social problem.