UNDERSTANDING ABOUT HIV AND AIDS AMONG MALE YOUNGSTERS FOCUSED ON SOCIAL REPRESENTATION THEORY

Abstract

The present study of qualitative research boarding was focused on concepts included into the Social Representation Theory, carried out within a fundamental and intermediate level state school located at João Pessoa city, Paraíba (PB), Northeast of Brazil. The adoption of a theoretical–methodological referent to guide this study capacitated the investigation to organize the concepts’ sets which compose a given theory and also capture with highest accuracy, the essence of the phenomenon under study. Semi-structured interviews based on present studies propose was the technique used in order with 21 male youngsters; the interviews were previously ascertained according to each the subjects’ availability. Results were attained by the use or part of the Content Analysis technique viewing that this technique may be applied to any communication with the transference of meanings from an issuing agent to a receiver an also because it makes use of systematic procedures to describes the messages’ content and thus able to extract from them the indicators which allow to infer the knowledge related to the these messages’ production condition, known as one of she Social Representation theory goals one category could be defined: 1) Understanding about the HIV and AIDS. The results had pointed the wealth and the diversity of the information elaborated from the contents of the interviews as well, fellow representations at the same time that they had given to account in the different ways for which these they had perceived it and they organized them from beliefs, attitudes, values also focused on experiences acquired in the sexuality individual exercise and/or shared, prevailing in almost all you say them as dangerous strong illnesses, that cause fears, social isolations and in the prevention necessity.