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Teenagers's attitudes of delinquency as social representations

This work presents the evaluation of 18 infringements that 480 teenagers carried out in six-point a scale correspondence analysis revealed that boys, teenagers of private schools and those of highest income have a tendency to evaluate the infringements with more average marks than high marks and atribute the highest marks to the infringements that threaten human life. Girls, lower class teenagers have a tendency to atribute higher marks to all infringements, evaluating them more severely. Data were discussed taking into account the Theory of Social Representation (Moscovici, Jodelet, Doise).

Social representation; evaluation of infringements; teenager's attitude


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