Representações sociais de homens autores de violência sobre ser homem e ser mulher

Abstract

Violence is part of the constructions of society and affects all (as) who experience it both directly and as spectators. The attitudes of violence can be presented in several forms: neglect, contempt, physical, sexual, psychological and originally is not a health problem, but becomes by generating significant damage to the construction of the subjects. Violence against women (VCM) is considered a public health problem, because it has a high prevalence and its effects affect all those involved and the context in which they are inserted. Men who commit violence are part of this problem and numerous studies have shown the need to deepen the studies on these men in order to think strategies for working with MVC. Understanding the social construction of these men, their masculinity and the way they express their perceptions becomes fundamental to point out ways to disarticulate and reduce the devastating impacts of domestic violence. To study this phenomenon, we opted for the use of the Theory of Social Representations (TRS) in the perspective of the procedural approach with the objective of knowing the representations of men perpetrators of violence (HAV) about being male, being female and about violence. Besides approaching how these representations influence the maintenance of violent attitudes practiced by these men. This is a qualitative research conducted in a city of the South of Rio Grande do Sul with HAV that concluded participation in reflective groups. Semi-structured interview and field diary were used as collection techniques and data were analyzed from Bardin. The data were collected in two moments (August/19 and January/24) and the project was authorized by the ethics committee by the opinion no6.585.773. The main results were: most of the HAV continue with their partners, used or use psychoactive substances (alcohol and marijuana), have low education and experienced some form of violence in their childhood. How to be man the participants represent that being man is to provide, care/ control. Being woman is to be mother, be available and not bother. In addition, the HAV justify their violence practices by women’s attitudes and have polarized expectations about the behavior of the female partners. It is concluded that the study was able to meet the initial objectives and present components that can help in the training of professionals in work in communities and specific groups of men perpetrators or non-violence.