Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RildoCMM_DISSERT.pdf: 3138899 bytes, checksum: 84335c809ea03fd46d1b5b3a52c002eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-31 / In recent years, issues involving public safety have gained more prominence in scientific debates, the media, and common sense, because undoubtedly the feeling of fear and insecurity caused by the increase in violence overall, has spread like construction element of social representations, both in individual levels, as well as collectively. Violence is a social phenomenon existing in human manifestations, from the older societies, ie it was present in all historical periods, but in different ways in the subjective and objective, having had the task of being the central element in modeling process for the formation of individual behavior, both in older societies as in modern society. However, it has a peculiar feature of acquiring new contours to the extent that the individual and collective behaviors are modified in relation individual-violence. In this sense, the institutions that establish the order from the control of violence, have their social representations in the context of social relationships permeated by elements of violence, fear and insecurity, that shift the subjective feeling of insecurity, or existential, for a concrete plan and goal, namely to the level of physical insecurity in daily life in the modern world. The objective of this study was to capture the construction of social representations of the population in Aracaju on the police institution and the figure of the policeman in the contemporary context. We focus our attention only to the institutions of order, which constitute the field of the apparatus of public security and social protection of our state / Nos ?ltimos anos, as quest?es que envolvem a seguran?a p?blica t?m obtido maior import?ncia nos debates cient?ficos, na m?dia e no senso comum, pois indubitavelmente o sentimento de medo e inseguran?a, causado pelo aumento da viol?ncia de um modo global, tem se propagado como elemento de constru??o das representa??es sociais, tanto em n?veis individuais, como tamb?m coletivamente. A viol?ncia ? um fen?meno social existente nas manifesta??es humanas desde as sociedades mais antigas, ou seja, ela esteve presente em todos os per?odos hist?ricos, por?m, de maneiras distintas no plano subjetivo e objetivo, possuindo a fun??o de ser o elemento central no processo de modela??o para forma??o do comportamento do indiv?duo, tanto nas sociedades mais antigas como na sociedade moderna. Contudo, possui a caracter?stica peculiar de adquirir novos contornos ? medida que os comportamentos individuais e coletivos s?o modificados na rela??o indiv?duo-viol?ncia. Nesse sentido, as institui??es que estabelecem a ordem a partir do controle da viol?ncia, t?m suas representa??es sociais constru?das no contexto de rela??es sociais impregnadas pelos elementos da viol?ncia, do medo e da inseguran?a, que deslocam o sentimento de inseguran?a subjetiva ou existencial para um plano concreto e objetivo, isto ?, para o plano da inseguran?a f?sica, no cotidiano das pessoas no mundo moderno. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi o de apreender a constru??o das representa??es sociais da popula??o de Aracaju acerca da institui??o policial e da figura do policial militar no contexto contempor?neo. Focamos nossa aten??o apenas numa parte das institui??es da ordem, que constituem o campo do aparato de seguran?a p?blica e defesa social de nosso estado