Percepção social de risco e acidente de viação: uma dimensão sociológica da sinistralidade rodoviária na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The investigation of the causes of road accidents is essential to be able to prevent their occurrence. However, research cannot stick to the reproduction of current discourses about the cause of them. In this study we sought to investigate this phenomenon through a risk perspective, examining the belief sand daily practices that promote the production and reproduction of behaviors such as driving while intoxicated, the disregard of traffic rules, the excess speed, and others that are usually labeled as the cause of road accidents. It is argued in this paper that the ways in which social actors perceive events as the death of them minimize ether is involved in risk behavior because traffic accidents are regarde transcendental phenomenon outside the will and human action. It also argues that rationality with its urban theories, beliefs and habits is a risk factor in that it creates a set of expectations in those who have cars, and the rejection of them is seen as a sign of inferiority