Homosexualidad: prejuicios por parte de los adultos mayores del barrio García Herreros – Cúcuta.

Abstract

Homosexuality is inherent in human nature. There are traces of people with same-sex attraction dating back to Ancient Greece; Throughout history, stereotypes have been generated that predispose hateful actions towards this social segment. That is why psychology as a branch of knowledge that studies the reasons for human actions must take its wide field of study in looking for vehement reasons (reasonable ones that describe) what drives heterosexuals (people with emotional and sexual taste for people of the sex opposite) to perceive and describe the gay population from a demonized paradigm of thought. This project studies the prejudices acquired by the population of the Garcia Herreros neighborhood of the capital of Norte de Santander. For this, the research carried out as a methodological design the qualitative one with phenomenological aspects, this to reach the process of understanding the frames of thought and beliefs about homosexuality. Additionally, the semi-structured interview was used with 20 older people (between 60 and 70 years of age in the area already outlined). Among the findings, the age-religion relationship and educational level in prejudices stand out. At the educational level: the highest number of prejudices (six identified prejudices) is in the population with a high school degree, compared to professionals with four identified prejudices. In this, age is a variable that directly implies prejudice, since 70- year- olds with a greater inclination to be prejudiced (from 1-6) share this characteristic with people with similar levels of prejudice: four to five.