Representaciones sociales de cultura e identidad en los jóvenes de grado 11-3 del colegio departamental la esperanza de villavicencio

Abstract

An investigation was carried out in order to determine the social representations of culture and identity, this was carried out with students from grade 11-3 of the La Esperanza de Villavicencio Departmental School during 2018. The approach given to the investigation is qualitative, For which tools such as the characterization survey and semi-structured interview were used for subsequent interpretation using the triangulation technique. Those constitutive elements of culture and identity were observed in which they were included from a tangible perspective, such as clothing, dances and other folkloric expressions. From the immaterial perspective, elements such as oral tradition, worldviews and ancestral knowledge were named. Regarding the identity category, it was determined that the elements that make it up are the personality and the way of expressing and relating in addition to elements such as the name, surname and everything that they wear in their clothing. With regard to the relationship between culture and identity in the social representations obtained, it was established that one depends on the other, since for there to be culture there must be someone who identifies with it. Phenomena of social order were pointed out that arise from the dynamics of globalization and that are excluded from the conceptions of culture and identity since they threaten human dignity, their identity and therefore culture, naming violent phenomena such as machismo, drug use, crime and xenophobia that run counter to traditional values.