O quê motiva os atos de linchamentos em Cuiabá e Várzea Grande?: algumas considerações sociológicas

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the factors that motivate the acts of popular lynchings against individuals suspected of delinquent practices. Although the acts of justice are not a novelty in the history of Brazilian society, however, there is still insufficient information about the real causes and motivations of the lynching act, as well as its increasing and increasing increase especially in recent years, with Numerous almost daily records of cases of attempted and consummate facts reported through social media. The Brazilian sociological tradition is directed to the study of social movements as an organization that channels and leads the manifestation of the social and political will of the popular classes, relegating collective behavior to the crop of social psychology. The investigative procedure was carried out through data collection on the information and reporting sites of lynchings cases occurred in 2014 to 2016 in the cities of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande, comparing the studies reported in the book by the sociologist José de Souza Martins , "Lynching: The People's Justice in Brazil". The result obtained establishes the relation of the sociological theoretical references elaborated by Émile Durkheim used for the understanding of the motivations of the phenomenon of the act of lynching.