RESPECT FOR THE RIGHT TO LIFE AS SEEN BY COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR SOCIAL REPRESENTATION

Abstract

The research about the respect for the right to life as seen by university students and their social representation is inserted in the context of the macroproject, the Federal Constitution, Fundamental Rights and Social Representation. Through the scientific proposal, we have sought to study the principle of the right to life in the representational perspective of the academic person, comprising courses in Law, Biological Sciences and Agronomy, at the Palmeiras de Goiás Campus, University of Goiás. It was a promising study, which fetched theoretical knowledge about the fundamental rights and the concept of life based on our Federal Constitution of 1988, encompassing its source as  fundamental right of a first generation, which is one of the specified rights and is exposed in article 1 of the Brazilian Magna Carta. Using the Theory of Social Representations, the project also aimed to analyze the meaning of this principle for students, both from a social perspective and in the performance of the State as a defender of the public interest. The study used as a research methodology, qualitatively and quantitatively, bibliographic references and a data collection  application, carried out with 126 individuals divided as follows: 63 students from the Law Course, 26 from the Biological Sciences and, finally, 37 from Agronomy. Also, the Iramuteq Software was used to analyze the evoked words frequencies, as well as the Similitude and Word Cloud analysis to assess the subjective question. Besides the inquiries to verify social representation, a sociodemographic questionnaire was conducted, with questions about age, sexuality and undergraduate course.