Football gangs, drug consumption and violence

Authors

  • Nicolas Ignacio Uribe Aramburo Docente de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo (FUNLAM)
  • Guillermo Alonso Castaño Perez Docente-Investigador de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo.

Keywords:

barras de futbol, drogas, violencia, psicologia de las masas

Abstract

Based on a descriptive and analytical research carried out under a qualitative
methodological design the co-ocurrence of the consumption
of psychoactive substances and aggressive and violent behaviors in
the members of some of the football supporting groups of the city of
Medellin, Colombia were described and analyzsed. Using the participant
observation technique we were able to show that drug use, together
with the identification, suggestion and social contagion phenomena,
promote the disturbance of consciousness and the temporary abolition
of patterns of thought and behavior typical of individuals, as well as
the moral and ethical precepts regulating action in society. This explains
why the individuals of the mass (football supporter groups) become
reckless, impulsive, angry, and violent from the scope of social psychology,
psychoanalysis and Ethology.

Author Biographies

  • Nicolas Ignacio Uribe Aramburo, Docente de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo (FUNLAM)
    Psicologo, Psicoanalista, Mg. en Investigacion psicoanalitica, Docente-Investigador de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo (FUNLAM), Docente Catedratico de la Universidad de San Buenaventura, miembro del Grupo de Investigacion Farmacodependencia y otras adicciones (FUNLAM) y del Grupo de Investigacion Estudios sobre Juventud de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y humanas de la Universidad de Antioquia.
  • Guillermo Alonso Castaño Perez, Docente-Investigador de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo.
    Medico, Dr. en Psicologia de la salud, Docente-Investigador de la Facultad de Psicologia y Ciencias Sociales de la Fundacion Universitaria Luis Amigo (FUNLAM), Lider del Grupo de Investigacion Farmacodependencia y otras adicciones (FUNLAM), Editor de la Revista ANALISIS (FUNLAM).

Published

2014-07-07

Issue

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

Football gangs, drug consumption and violence. (2014). Psicología desde El Caribe, 31(2), 243-279. https://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/psicologia/article/view/4845

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