Childrens must construct models or representations of the social reality in which it lives, to try to give a sense to the world that surrounds to him and in addition those representations serve as frame for their action. Most of those mental representations are not simple copies of those of the adults, but that they constitute a personal construction and they differ qualitatively from those of the greater ones. The study of the development of the knowledge on the society in the boy attracts attention on the part of the investigators more and more. Three are main the theoretical approaches. The constructivista position, according to which the boy must make his own construction of the knowledge with the help of the intellectual instruments which he has. The tradition of the study of the social representations originated in the sociology French and renewed by Moscovici, and the historical-c...

Childrens must construct models or representations of the social reality in which it lives, to try to give a sense to the world that surrounds to him and in addition those representations serve as frame for their action. Most of those mental representations are not simple copies of those of the adults, but that they constitute a personal construction and they differ qualitatively from those of the greater ones. The study of the development of the knowledge on the society in the boy attracts attention on the part of the investigators more and more. Three are main the theoretical approaches. The constructivista position, according to which the boy must make his own construction of the knowledge with the help of the intellectual instruments which he has. The tradition of the study of the social representations originated in the sociology French and renewed by Moscovici, and the historical-c...