ABSTRACT:

In the context of political and moral socialization, recent studies have been gradually decentering from the integration models issue to concentrate itself in the different ways to bring out the common, according to the different political grammars and from the variability of contexts. To find out how the students of the Portuguese public school contribute to bring out the common under the constraints of the educational institution, we applied a scenarios-based questionnaire to 725 students from 3 schools in the Greater Lisbon. The findings of analysis suggest that students mobilize different political grammars according to the situation, showing qualitatively contrasted engagements. The results still indicate the great vulnerability of students in these situations and their effects.

Keywords:
Political socialization; High school students; Scenario-based questionnaire; Vulnerability; Greater Lisbon