Abstract

BARREIRO, Alicia Viviana  and  CASTORINA, José Antonio. Relations between the notion of justice and the collective belief in a tidy world: An introduction to child's conceptions. Anu. investig. [online]. 2007, vol.14, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-1686.

This paper is framed in a discussion about the development of social knowledge. This investigation was made to study the relations between rational-individual knowledge and collective one. The belief in a just world and child's conceptions abut justice were taken as key concepts in order to analyze those relations. A descriptive study was carried out with a sample of 56 children, whose age was between 6 and 13 years-old. The results obtained would confirm Piaget asseverations about the notion of justice. However, they shows a belief in a tidy world which persist in subjects with a high moral development. We suppose it is an ideological background that imposes restrictions to the individual rational activity. This gives us elements to reconsider from a dialectic point of view the relationships between the individual construction and their social conditions of possibility.

Keywords : Justice; Child's conceptions; Ideology; Belief in a just world.

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