Individualismo: lócus da dificuldade de Ler e Escrever entre Universitários - 10.5102/uri.v4i2.231

Abstract

This article discusses the difficulty on reading and writing among college students, an authentic intellectual absence, making a relation with the individualism. Intellectual absence and individualism are two closely related social phenomenon, whose relation stimulates the curiosity of researchers. In the base of the individualism, there is the competition, and it can be perceived, among the students, a tendency of naturalization of it, what means they consider the competition a normal and definitive fact in society. In general, college students do not see nothing wrong about such situation and understand that the competition does not impact the formation of groups into the classroom. However, it was verified through such research that the formation of groups is not enough to build a proper culture of active intellectual interaction. In addition, students have no consciousness about the true reasons, which prevent such interaction. Important to this research was Durkheim, due to his explanatory method on individualism, as well as Weber, through his comprehensive method of analysis on the motivations of the social actors, following Bourdieu’s regards on research methodology. So, such research focus on a specific object, which is the difficulty on reading and writing by college students, and the question is related to the individualism phenomenon. The studies concluded that the individualism is the locus where the intellectual absence completes itself and they present us, in addition to the aim of the research, some classroom practices that can be allocated by professors.