Construcción del objeto político para la participación: una mirada desde el interaccionismo simbólico y la fenomenología social de Alfred Schütz en diálogo con la perspectiva arendtiana

Abstract

This article analyzes the political object as a product of social interaction and its relationship with the actions of political subjects in the public sphere. It is the result of the theoretical foundation present in the qualitative study called “Political conception and youth participation in the municipality of Girardota, Antioquia”. The first part addresses the principles of symbolic interactionism from the perspective of Blumer and Mead, to determine the conception of the object and its significance. The second part is a dissertation based on Schütz on the issue of meaning, its construction in the interaction and its interpretation in this one. Finally, by the hand of Arendt, we seek to establish a relationship between the political as an object with socially constructed meanings and the way in which the subjects appropriate those meanings for political participation in the public sphere. Thereby, it can be determined that the political actions of the subjects are the praxis of meanings internalized in them by means of a natural process of interaction. Now converted into an engine of action, those meanings configure a position as a political subject in the individual.

When dealing with politics from the perspectives outlined in the article, apart from considering a transdisciplinarity in the apprehension of the object under investigation that could mark a possible course of action, the intersubjective nature of political relations is highlighted. In doing so, in political terms, the individual’s world and everyday life make sense.