Violência e realidade brasileira: civilização ou barbárie?

Abstract

Neste artigo, trata-se de compreender como, a partir dos estudos frankfurtianos, opera a vida no interior da sociedade moderna. Parte-se da discussão, pela crítica, do estado atual e da conjuntura brasileira de convivência com o fenômeno da violência que, além de alarmante, revela como o Estado de Direito não se consolidou. Essa situação cria um ciclo vicioso, pois é do seu não fechamento que se extrai a fonte de inúmeras injustiças e fenômenos de desigualdade e de violência que se encontram a corroer a solidariedade social em nossos tempos.

Ressocialização, trabalho e resistência: mulheres encarceradas e a produção do sujeito delinquente

“…These discourses demonstrate and manifest the very contradictions that underlie the daily life of Brazilian society through its form of social organization and its configurations (PORTO, 2002). They contribute to build a society that, regardless of social class and economic condition of the subject, naturalizes the culture of violence (BITTAR, 2008), causing violence to be in the whole social fabric and practiced and naturalized on soccer fields, road rage, violence against homosexuals, academic bullying during the defense of theses, femicide, verbal and physical assaults that occur every day in schools, police violence in peaceful demonstrations or police killings. The violence, coercion, and humiliation practiced within the prison only manifests the institutionalization of such practices in Brazilian society.…”

“…Sociologically, violence is defined as the situation where an interaction causes "[…] damage to one or more people to different degrees, whether regarding their physical integrity, moral integrity, their possessions, or in their symbolic and cultural participation" (MICHAUD, 1989, p. 11). In the Brazilian context, violence has settled in the social fabric in such a way that it has affected the lives of men and women in any social, economic, and political condition (BITTAR, 2008), and there are many causes of this generalized and rooted violence in Brazilian society. In this sense, the causes of violence cannot be solely attributed to socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions in isolation, but must be understood from the nature of our social organization and its configurations (PORTO, 2002).…”

“…Such an antagonism causes many of them not to believe in the process of resocialization: As already said, violence must be understood here as a sociological problem in which interaction occurs that produces " […] damage to one or more people to different degrees, regarding either their physical integrity, moral integrity, their possessions, or in their symbolic and cultural participation" (MICHAUD, 1989, p. 11). Violence is so entrenched in Brazilian society that it affects everyone (BITTAR, 2008), making it something natural in society. Therefore, it is inappropriate to say that agents are the origin and producers of this antagonism.…”