Representaciones sociales y locura: Una mirada a los habitantes de la calle.

Abstract

The present investigation has as objective to investigate the evolution of the concept of madness in the contemporary time through a historical and conceptual analysis of the term, returning for its interpretation the theoretical postulates of social representations of Serge Moscovici; For this purpose, a documentary review was carried out that reflected how these elements (madness and social representations) originate another recognized problem such as the social exclusion of people called "inhabitants of the street" in the Colombian context. From the literary exploration and discourse analysis it could be revealed that those cognitive structures associated with the term of madness reinforce the conditions of vulnerability among which are the exclusion of the inhabitants of the street.