Opinión pública y representaciones sociales en torno a los alimentos transgénicos

Abstract

The public opinion has an outstanding influence in the political decisions. The European surveys indicates that the attitudes about OGMs are mainly opposed and these results have been one of the keys in the brake to the authorizations of new varieties. Nevertheless, it is doubtful that those opinions are sustained in adverse stances of the citizens. They operate in a social universe where the interpretation of the discussion is closely bound to the social perceptions about the own society. Therefore, it agrees to approach what kind of social representations mobilize the OMGs, in order to look for the guidelines that sustain the attitudes and to verify if the interpretation of the public opinion publishes recover them.