Memoria colectiva y representaciones sociales de la historia argentina en población castrense
Collective memory and social representations of argentine history
Investig. psicol; 20 (3), 2015
Publication year: 2015
La Historia tienen la función de explicar a un grupo social, la conformación de su realidad y justificar las actitudes y conductas ante los desafíos del presente. En esta línea, el presente trabajo plantea el objetivo de analizarla Identidad Social como un principio organizador de las representaciones sociales.
Argentina\'s history that a group of students in military training mentioned as most important. To analyze data the structural approach or core theory of social representations (Abric, 2005) was used. Results show a strong presence of military and nostalgic bias in participants. In turn, a high coincidence between events and figures showed up as most of the events were featuring by mentioned characters, describing a shared homogeneous narrative. Finally, social identity is reinforced as an organizing principle of social representations.