Legitimidad del ejercicio de representación estudiantil en la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

Contemporary societies are characterized by presenting a series of problems of legitimation of the different political orders, which affect the processes of discursive formation of the will of the subjects, thus making it impossible to build a critical citizenship, through which subjects can take an active part in the political decision-making process. This, as Habermas puts it, arises due to the exhaustion of the utopian energies of modernity, that is, due to the stagnation of its emancipatory potential. Based on this approach, the need arises to investigate the characteristics and ways in which these legitimation problems are manifested, in order to identify the ruptures and discontinuities that make it impossible to exercise critical citizenship, which is sustained by order. politician since its validation. Although it is possible to speak of the legitimacy of political orders at the macro social level, (congresses, parliaments, councils, assemblies), there are also evidences of legitimation processes at the micro social level, that is, in the case of the present investigation, in institutions educational higher education.