A construção simbólica do dinheiro na infância: estudo comparativo entre estudantes de escolas pública e privada

Abstract

People live in a society in which money is in much of the relationships that individuals establish in their daily lives. Thus, subjects are immersed in this financial context from childhood and therefore end up developing an idea about money that may have influence on how they dealt with their lives as adults. This paper seeks to investigate children's social representations of money. For this purpose, the relationships established by students of the third year of the elementary school of the public school and the private school of the city of Recife were investigated by means of the free association technique in order to discover which representations these groups of individuals had of the money. Through the quantification of the terms used by the children and the analysis of content made, we sought categories that could outline the links that participants make with money and map the place of money in the social life of thesesubjects. With this, it is hoped, minimally, to be able to explain the influences that the social relations and the sharing of spaces have in the formation of the concepts from very early ages in the social coexistence.