REPRESENTATIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN FOR RELIGIOUS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Research highlights the relevance of religious beliefs and practices in the formation of ideas about the fathers of men and women, as well as to explain the particularities between the genres. This study seeks to identify and analyze the social representations of men and women for religious universities. This is a descriptive and exploratory study that involves the participation of 561 students, enrolled in graduate courses, from all regions of Brazil, selected randomly and unintentionally, responding to a virtual form, with 48 questions and submetidos. à Técnica de Associação Livre de Palavras (TALP), the terms used in this study being: “Mulher” and “Homem”. It was also a division of two dice, between religious universities, separating men and women, and universities without self-denomination of religion, containing both sexes. The results point to the role, even fundamental, that religions occupy the ways of thinking, feeling and acting of Brazilians, guiding the ways in which we experience genders and their identities. There is a system of social representations that is objective in the image of women, strong, beautiful and endowed with qualities that reinforce gender stereotypes. Similarly, men are represented as countries and sinners, as well as linked to fathers labeled as masculine, as work and protection. The systems of social representation are established between men and women, as well as groups of students with no religion.