A EDUCAÇÃO JURÍDICA COMO FERRAMENTA DE EFETIVAÇÃO DA CIDADANIA E REDUÇÃO DA VULNERABILIDADE DO CONSUMIDOR

Abstract

The scope of this work is to point out the role of legal education as an instrument for the realization of citizenship in its full form, as well as for minimizing the vulnerability of the consumer. In this sense, from a deductive approach, the need to promote a broader legal education is evident in response to a social problem that compromises the autonomy of the legal system as a whole, calling into question the very democratic ideal of the national legal system: legal illiteracy. Thus, it is demonstrated how society's lack of legal knowledge contributes to the spread of rights abuses, intensifying the consumer's position of vulnerability, in addition to hindering the individual's citizenship. Thus, it is examined how the lack of knowledge of the constitutional text, in particular the fundamental rights and guarantees and the political and institutional functioning of the State, as well as consumer rights and consumer protection mechanisms, contribute to the creation and perpetuation of a social reality of massive sub-citizenship and hypervulnerabilization of the consumer in the consumer market, with a hypertrophy of the political-symbolic function of the legal text, and a hypotrophy of its legal-normative function, so that the law is now mostly used for ideological purposes and politicians, as a tool for social control, lacking practical effectiveness. This time, it is discussed about the democratization of access to legal education as a mechanism for the fulfillment of the social function of Law, considering such a possible measure to change this social reality, with a view to creating a society endowed with a critical and conscientious sense. citizen, in which the citizen responds effectively when faced with contexts of abuse of their rights, by releasing them to conform to them, and is duly trained to act in the consumer market, aware of their rights as a consumer and of how to claim them.