Research identified the social representations of corruption and violence and its relationship to levels of socio-moral reflection of young people in urban areas and rural country. We evaluated to  268 young people from urban and rural areas, of both sexes , aged between 18 and 25 years, developing focus groups to identify the social representations of corruption and violence and a questionnaire of socio-reflection  proposed moral Gibbs, Arnold and Morgan and adapted by Grimaldo (2002). No significant relationship was found between socio-moral reflection and social representation of corruption and violence. There is a moral development mostly  located in the  interpersonal harmony ,while a third of the population is located in an instrumental relativist orientation and moral development level reached by youth for the pre-conventional and conventional. The levels of socio-moral  refl...

Research identified the social representations of corruption and violence and its relationship to levels of socio-moral reflection of young people in urban areas and rural country. We evaluated to  268 young people from urban and rural areas, of both sexes , aged between 18 and 25 years, developing focus groups to identify the social representations of corruption and violence and a questionnaire of socio-reflection  proposed moral Gibbs, Arnold and Morgan and adapted by Grimaldo (2002). No significant relationship was found between socio-moral reflection and social representation of corruption and violence. There is a moral development mostly  located in the  interpersonal harmony ,while a third of the population is located in an instrumental relativist orientation and moral development level reached by youth for the pre-conventional and conventional. The levels of socio-moral  refl...