Social representations about drug violence in young university students in the State of Mexico

Abstract

The proposal raises the proximity to a structural problem of Mexican society: drug violence and its more forceful forms of expression embodied in various artifacts of concretion. In the context of the study, narcoviolence and its social representations have certain peculiarities that can be glimpsed ever more omnipresent in the discourses and acts of young people. The methodology used was qualitative, participatory, comprehensive and interpretive, based on the technique of in-depth interview, which brought us to the direct knowledge of the social reality of the interviewee, not mediated by conceptual or operational definitions, nor filtered by measurement instruments with high degree of structuring. The most notable results are linked to the knowledge of the social representations of corruption, arrogance and impunity, cyber-drug violence as a technological artifact of the concretion of fear, the relationship between worship, religiosity and moral ambiguity and drug trafficking, deterritorialization and rupture of the community sense, among others.