Discriminación social en el municipio de Pamplona: Estudio de caso.

Abstract

This research is aimed at learning about the experiences of a young University student from the Caribbean region who has suffered Social discrimination in the Municipality of Pamplona Norte de Santander, whose experiences were identified after a semi-structured interview that was conducted, which led to the perception that it has to face the issue of social discrimination, with the aim of understanding the positive and / or negative aspects that it associates with the stereotypes and prejudices generated towards people from the Caribbean Region; Among the most significant findings we find that the most frequent discrimination is connoted verbally, making negative remarks. The foregoing provides a contribution to the knowledge of the processes of adaptation to cultural and student contexts. This research led to review and analyze the dynamics of topics relevant to social psychology such as; stereotypes and prejudices, discrimination, social identity, positively contributing knowledge to society about social discrimination. Likewise, it allowed assessing the psychological factors that are related to the processes of social discrimination, concluding that the psychological well-being of a person exposed to situations of discrimination can be affected, and that the psychological damage that is generated depends not only on age if not, of the internal and external protective factors it has, including the support networks to which it has access.