Autoritarismo, classe e juventude: sociologia política de alunos do ensino médio de Juiz de Fora-MG

Abstract

In this dissertation, I aim to expose the relation between youthfulness and conservatism/authoritarianism in Brazil. For this, high school students from four schools in Juiz de Fora-MG were submitted to questionnaires, intending to explore the correlation between certain social class attributes and the manifestation of authoritarianism. Following clues of a political sociology based mainly on the findings of Pierre Bourdieu and his theory of social classes, I defend the hypothesis that the capital (financial, cultural and social) accrued by the individuals in the study, according to how it is presented in higher or lesser degrees, has a direct relation with the fact of revealing or not tendencies to adopt authoritarian, conservative or reactionary positions.