出版社：Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：The objective of this work was to verify if the use of marihuana is associated
to search of individuation, pleasure/well-being and social autonomy processes.
We adopted as reference the social representations theory, according to which
individuals/groups produce knowledges/practices in order to emancipate
themselves from social impositions. Sixty university students from 17 to 30
years old, marihuana users (U) and non-users (NU) took part in this research. We
applied questionnaires with questions about their pleasure experiences and
desire to live outside social conventions. They were requested to justify their
answers and, finally, to self-introduce in a free way. Answers were thematically
analized and statistically tested. We found that the U’s self-introductions were
characterized by an inconformist accent mainly in social institutional terms,
while the NU showed a more conventional stance in the same situations. NU
considered aceptable non conventional experiences, but manifested not to feel
like having them, while U tended to assert/justify experiences of at least
partial social rupture.
关键词：Marihuana; social representations; self-introduction; social
conventions/ruptures.
