Las movilizaciones del Primero de Mayo en Colombia y sus representaciones sociales entre 1991 y 2006.

Abstract

This text is organized in four main chapters. In the first we will take a historical look at May Day, covering the beginnings of the celebration of International Labor Day, and then focus on its development in Colombia. In addition, it is considered that the specific meaning of this day as a social mobilization is due to the fact that it is a symbolic creation, that is, it is the result of RS that we have built from the history that has been written and read about it; from the figures and periodizations; and from the discourses of the media about its actors and actions. By mobilizations we understand those that "correspond to collective social actions that make a temporary presence in public spaces, especially on roads; it includes what is commonly referred to as marches, rallies, rallies, sit-ins and public demonstrations in general. It is a complex construction of worlds of sense and meanings; a world that contributes to understanding the reality of workers and Colombian society. In the second chapter, we present some central concepts about the world of SRs. To do so, we start by reconstructing its notion from the contributions of Berger and Luckmann on how we construct reality in the everyday world, the contributions of Émile Durkheim's sociology and, subsequently, the reconstructive moment of SRs, as those products that intervene in social life. In the third chapter, readers will find elements on the media, their relationship with the social construction of reality and how the news - as a product - accounts for SRs. Finally, in the fourth chapter, all the elements exposed throughout the book are related in order to analyze them in the light of the discourse of the news in the written press, with the purpose of giving an account in the conclusions of what are the SRs around the mobilizations of May Day in Colombia.