Abstract
Abstract The Municipal Council of the Elderly is the body established by law to watch over the rights of the elderly and it is up to them to submit, opine, discuss, debate and decide, by vote, issues related to the rights of the elderly. The objective of this research is to identify and analyze how the social representations of counselors about the elderly municipal council are organized and the possible elements that make up the mute zone. A total of 72 counselors participated in the survey, who answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and a hierarchical free speech evocation test in situations of normal collection and substitution, based on the inductive term “municipal council of the elderly”. The data were analyzed by the Prototypic Analysis and the Centrality Index of Social Representations from Evocations. The results showed that although the council is normatively represented as a body for the defense and guarantee of the rights of the elderly, elements of the mute zone in the central nucleus point it, against normatively, as an inefficient, unknown body of denunciation, which needs better planning and reorganization. It was considered that all social representation is masked, requiring further research on the subject.
Highlights
O Conselho Municipal do Idoso é o órgão de direito instituído para zelar pelos direitos dos idosos e cabe a eles, submeter, opinar, discutir, debater e decidir, por meio de voto, assuntos relacionados aos direitos do idoso
Public policies are defined as a series of decisions that are manifested in the form of actions that are strategically selected from a range of options according to the hierarchy of values and preferences of the sociopolitical dispute
A frequency of 85 hapax was found and the index of diversity that was calculated corresponds to 0.38; and the index of rarity, to 0.61. These data were subjected to prototypical analysis, resulting in 41 different words
Summary
O Conselho Municipal do Idoso é o órgão de direito instituído para zelar pelos direitos dos idosos e cabe a eles, submeter, opinar, discutir, debater e decidir, por meio de voto, assuntos relacionados aos direitos do idoso. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar e analisar como se organizam as representações sociais de conselheiros sobre o conselho municipal do idoso e os possíveis elementos que compõem a zona muda. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar y analizar cómo se organizan las representaciones sociales de consejeros sobre el consejo municipal del anciano y los posibles elementos que componen la zona muda. Any policy focused on the elderly must consider the possibility of taking action in diverse social contexts and of elaborating new meanings for life in old age Such issues imply the need for specific public policies that are discussed by society and guaranteed by the government (Santinha & Marques, 2015). Their obligatory nature enjoys legitimate power and authority, which in turn seeks to guarantee the rights of the social group affected (Rua, 2012)
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