Sociocultural conditions and popular knowledge about the process of "disappearing" people during the last dictatorship (1976-1983) in Argentina

In the emergence of new forms of political consciousness, as part of the process of substantive democratization in Latin American politics, we analyze how state policies of justice  carried out in  Argentina since  Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez ‘ goverments (2003/2007; 2007/2011) - such as the derogation of  “Obediencia Debida” and “Punto Final” Laws, and the consequent penal judgement  of  the responsible of genocide crimes  perpetrated by the last dictatorship -  have affected  working classes’ knowledge  of the Argentinian history  in the last four decades. How a  change  of  political  and social context impacts  in  the advance of knowledge of  recent history in the popular sectors? Which are the  propitious  facts to transform  the political consciousness of working classes? Which are the necessary facts to observe social and political processes dominantly unobserved, allowing the passage of a situation of smaller knowledge to one of greater knowledge? We intend to  approach  to these questions, exploring  the theoretical suggestions of Norbert Elías and Jean Piaget,  and  displaying  empirical evidence collected  in the present stage of an exploratory investigation, carried out in 2010, whose central goal is to study the structural  factors of social representations of  power and justice in popular sectors. We study the representations of  power and justice in catholic workers: the  devotee of San Cayetano.