Abstract

BAEZA-CORREA, Jorge. "They" and "We": Chilean youngsters' (mis)trust. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.1, pp.273-286. ISSN 1692-715X.

The answers obtained through questions from groups of high school students (focus group) in the biggest Chilean cities, about what institutions and whom they trust in, are unanimous: they only trust in their families; and with reference to institutions, they do not trust in them. When looking for something that could underlie the answers, I found that trusting functions like an inclusion/ exclusion system. Trusting in the family is an including we which evidences the existence of a "they", when being out of them, protection is required. On the contrary, mistrusting in institutions is an excluding we, which provides others with benefits and subdues to their arbitrariness. Excluded from the social we, then we have to be some "they" defined by others, without an own life.

Keywords : high school student; social behavior; civil society.

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