Publicación:

Representaciones de masculinidad y relaciones de poder en un grupo de niños y niñas de Cali, Colombia

Resumen

The following paper is about an experimental study aiming to investigate social representations of masculinity and how they're reflected in gender relations that establish a group of six boys and girls in Cali City, Colombia. The theory behind this research is the social's representations theory and basic theoretical concepts such as gender, masculinity and power relations are included to give structure to the development of research. As elements of methodology, in this case it's a qualitative court, using as a method of collecting a set of roles, a focus group and participant observation; The method of analysis is discourse analysis and organization of information is given by a series of categories that allow the results lead to discussion and the arguments supporting the work. Thanks to this design and in light of the recorded within the conceptual framework are achieved define a set of masculinity's social representations of from certain characteristics, expressed by the research subjects; just as an approach to those contexts where you've greater participation by gender and finally an analysis of power relations or equity evidenced from the role play takes place and represented the ideas expressed in the focus group is made by the group of children.