Mechanisms to Overcome Negative Social Identity and Legitimyze the System and the Stigma in the “El Castillo” Community, La Pintana, Chile

Authors

  • Héctor Cavieres Higuera Dr. Psicologia Académico Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez
  • Manuel José Cheyre Triat Asistente Investigación Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Estudiante Psicología Universidad de Chile. Chile.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7147/GEO22.14752

Abstract

The present research explored the use of negative social identity coping mechanisms by the inhabitants of the El Castillo community in Santiago, Chile. The implications of such mechanisms to the legitimation of the social order are also analyzed. Methodologically this is an exploratory study based in open interviews, which were analyzed from the “social discourse analysis” approach. Findings show the existence of individual and cognitive mechanisms that legitimize the stereotypes of being criminals and drugdealers; also a dichotomous vision is produced regarding the inhabitants of the comunity that is based on the premise of “choice” or their rootlessness with the territory.

Keywords: negative social identity, stigma, system justification.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

18-01-2017

How to Cite

CAVIERES HIGUERA, Héctor; CHEYRE TRIAT, Manuel José. Mechanisms to Overcome Negative Social Identity and Legitimyze the System and the Stigma in the “El Castillo” Community, La Pintana, Chile. Geografares, Vitória, Brasil, v. 1, n. 22, p. 79–87, 2017. DOI: 10.7147/GEO22.14752. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufes.br/geografares/article/view/14752. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 22 (2016): (Julho - Dezembro)

Section

Papers

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Geografares

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyrights Declaration

Authors who publish in the journal agree with the following terms:

  1. Authors will keep their copyrights and grant the journal the right to their first publishing, simultaneously licenced under Creative Commons Attribution License which allows sharing their work with authorship recognition and initial release through this journal. 
  2. Authors may sign additional contracts separately diffusing a non-exclusively version of the paper published in this journal (i.g. publishing in institutional repository or as a book chapter), once citing the authorship and initial release through this journal.  
  3. Authors are encouraged to publicize and diffuse their paper online, for example onto institutional repositories or on their personal websites.