Resumen

DENEGRI CORIA, Marianela, CABEZAS GAETE, Daniel, SEPULVEDA ARAVENA, Jocelyne et al. Representaciones sociales sobre pobreza en estudiantes universitarios chilenos. liber., jul./dic. 2010, vol.16, no.2, p.161-170. ISSN 1729-4827.

The purpose of the study was to determine and describe the social representations of Chilean university students about poverty, its causes and solutions. We used the technique of semantic network (Valdez, 1998), we applied the instrument to 121 students from the Faculties of Education and Humanities and Medicine of the University of La Frontera. The analyses were carried out based on values of the semantics network. The results indicate common contents in the social representations of both groups, probably nuanced by academic formation; we observed differences among students groups related to the importance that they assigned to historic and social factors. We discussed the results about structural aspects thoughts.

Palabras llave: Poverty; Social Representations; University Students.