The symbolic litigation of ``Lava Jato`` Operation: The producers of the meaning of corruption

Abstract

This article analyzes the media translation of ``Lava jato`` Operation from 03/04/2016 to 05/07/2018. Such effort initially mobilizes a systematization of the different notions of the concept of corruption within the Social Sciences, assumes in the development of the research a certain epistemological premise, this one associated with the symbolic paradigm of the phenomenon, which circumscribes multiple agents in the scenario called political scandal, whose result constitutes a field of dispute to formulate the dominant version of what is Official and Universal within the State (BOURDIEU, 2014), explores through this theoretical precept a model of relational positioning that expresses both the selected agents and their corresponding structures in a two-dimensional plane Cartesian. Once this is done, it explores through a specific structure of agents, namely the specialized media, its position in the linguistic choice in imputing the term corruption, whose investigation describes whether it is arbitrated in a logic of classes, that is, in the face of structures, or, atomistic, around agents, which could in some way infer in constitutive traits in the general public's perception of corruption.