Trascendencia de la cultura política de los estudiantes de la carrera de sociología de la Utmach en la participación ciudadana

Abstract

The present research project called Transcendence of the political culture of the students of the Sociology career of the UTMACH, in citizen participation; develops the problem that arises in the sociology career and that corresponds to the participation of students in institutional democratic life and its importance in the democratic action of civic life. This is particularly characterized by the political culture without much interest in political activation within the Faculty and the career in particular, in addition to reflecting a lack of motivation in politics to participate in democratic spaces of civil society. For the analysis of the problem, concepts of political culture and citizen participation are developed, being the two variables of this investigative work, and that give meaning and orientation to the investigation. The aforementioned problem does not contribute to fostering political interest, nor to developing skills that contribute to institutional government and outside of public governance, causing at the same time a low critical thinking about the administration in general. From this comes the interest of the authors to understand the political culture of sociology students directly with the career, this with the aim of contributing to possible solutions and strategies to consolidate and strengthen interest in politics and student participation in the democratic spaces. The research is aimed at students from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology career at the Technical University of Machala, El Oro Province, Machala canton, which is located on Avenida Panamericana Km 5 ½ via Pasaje. The central question is, what significance does the political culture of the students of the sociology career at UTMACH have in citizen participation? Which determines the general objective: To determine the significance of the political culture of the students of the sociology career of the UTMACH in citizen participation. The epistemological approach, inductive as a scientific procedure, the type of research, diagnostic, interpretive, explanatory, the methodology used corresponds to the qualitative approach that allows us to apply the interview in depth. The concepts that the interviewees emit, in the context of generative questions and dialogue, the authors give the corresponding meaning and interpretations, which allow us to reach the conclusions.The results of the research reveal that the students vaguely use terms in politics, show a low level of interest in participating in political spaces, distrust is perceived in the highest authorities of the university institution, in matters of Equity and democracy, students show low interest and motivation to participate in events and activities related to local public management, in the same way they do not have contact with organizations and neighborhood committees where they belong. In view of the results obtained, an intervention proposal is proposed called, "Empowerment and participation of sociology students in democratic and political spaces within and outside the UTMACH", aimed at three objectives, promoting strategic workshops through socialization with students, to improve training spaces and democratic opportunities for political, social and cultural participation; establish support tools for the practice of policies and social participation, in the use of their free time through open houses of youth projects and that of supporting the student participation initiatives of the students, in order to obtain greater confidence and experience through his perspective of the current political situation the country is going through.