O impacto da Quarta Revolução Industrial na estruturação da cultura política entre os jovens do Brasil

Abstract

The 21st century brought the institutionalization of democratic societies as a right at the formal level, neglecting the most pressing social aspects for the majority of the population. In this sense, there is an asymmetry between the formal procedures of representative democracy which apparently work and a social situation that remains substantively stagnant. Such is the case in Brazil, where the economic and pedagogical bases for an assertive political culture that would make a socially integrated democracy viable have not yet been built. In a world entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a question arises: what kind of emerging political culture and what is the role of education in generating a permanent democratic mentality? Based on comparative survey data with young people from different types of schools in Porto Alegre, we sought to observe the interaction between political culture and the use of spaces of the digital world. We argue that when technological advances are not accompanied by a change in the quality of public education, the result cannot be anything other than democratic turmoil derived from the maintenance of a hybrid political culture. If the State does not act, underprivileged young people remain trapped to the situation of their historical trajectory. In the Brazilian context of the fourth IR, inequality penetrates the digital world.