Experiencias y Percepciones del riesgo en Estudiantes Universitarios en tiempos de pandemia. Reflexiones para el Trabajo Social

Abstract

The present study emphasizes on the experiences and perceptions of risk in university students in times of pandemic, for which students of the careers of Social Work, Law and Social Communication of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato participated, in this sense the research responds to the practices and perception in relation to the risk produced by the Covid 19.The perception of risk is linked to social practices and experiences in relation to risk conditions through the social interrelationship with the context and experiences. Similarly, risk perception refers to the conditions of uncertainty about a possible event that may generate physical, social, economic and environmental damage, among other effects. In addition, social structures influence the construction of habitus, which allows for the understanding of social reality from the subjectivity of the individual, that is, it establishes the way of thinking, acting and accepting certain realities of the social context .For the execution of the investigation a methodology with a qualitative approach was used, a semi-structured interview was handled compiling the different life stories, in addition a theoretical base was used allowing an adequate analysis and examination of the stories. University students experience their reality linked to the spaces of youth socialization such as: the family, school and work, that is to say, there are conditions of family, academic and economic risk in relation to unfavorable processes due to situations of social vulnerability.