Abstract

ZUCAL, José GARRIGA  and  MAGLIA, Elea. What is a pólice? a study on the representations of pólice work. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.31, pp.15-31. ISSN 1514-6871.

We propose in this article an analysis of the police representations on their work tasks. As a result of an ethnographic work - at the Cadet School of the Argentine Federal Police - we discovered that three dimensions of police work always come up: sacrifice, vocation and Police state. These milestones of self-representation allow us to reflect on police work through two different, but related, paths. On the one hand, we are interested in accounting for the continuities and ruptures of representations of police work to other professions. On the other hand, we are interested in accounting for the valuation strategies of police work - moral operations - that allow police officers to rank their tasks and make police work a non-work.

Keywords : police; sacrifice; vocation; police state.

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