The social representations and identities of military police officers about the military police of the state of Rio de Janeirosocial Representations; Military police; Rio de Janeiro
The social representations are outlines, systems formed by elements and significance cognitives, composed of a central nucleus, through which the semantic identity of the representation emerges possessing an organizing value; and for the outlying system, through which their elements are negotiable with the context of the reality, allowing the semantic remodel of the representation. In that way, understand the social representations as a structure of faiths formed by the relationships intergroup with value comunicacional, they are consensual, in other words, they extol the share of cognitive elements connoting not only a cognitive dimension, as well as an affectionate dimension, intervening and composing the social identity. It is worth to emphasize that the social representations guide the interpretation of the world crossing behaviors, once they are irrigated of content cultural, partner-historical and political. Once meditated as structure of faiths that guides conducts, the Theory of the social Representations allows the military policeman's understanding as a subject, an active agent in the collective assemblies crossed by partner-historical symbolic elements, the one that makes possible understand that the social representation of the institution military police was and it is built permanently through the social relationships of interpretation of the world and of attribution of values, what forms the identity of the institution. The military police is understood as with a tool, an instrument to which the right of use of force is attributed to maintain the public order, what is configured a great challenge for the whole social body, demanding assiduous scientific studies on the practice contemporary policeman. In that way, to present researches lens to identify the elements constituents and constituent of the military policeman's social representation on him same meantime work activity. The research will be accomplished with the 100 military policemen's of the Military police of the State of Rio de Janeiro sample. It will be used a questionnaire composed of four subjects of free evocations and two open subjects. For it analyzes of data will be used the software Evoc and analyze of content of Bardin.