This paper intends to investigate the existence of a psychosocial process of sadomasochist integration (the so-called "hazing") between freshmen and veterans in the Faculty of Education at the Federal University of São Carlos. The analysis of the collected data indicates that university hazing is a passage rite whose physical and mainly psychic violence is justified by students as a tradition that must be maintained in the university life.
University hazing; Theodor W. Adorno; Cultural Industry