Representações Sociais da Comunidade Científica Brasileira sobre Tecnologia Social

Abstract

The contemporary globalized world emphasizes socioeconomic disparities and paradoxes, backed by technological advances in information and communication, the evidence of high level of social inequality and ecological disasters that plague the world. To seek alternatives that can mitigate or eliminate the misery and poverty in the world, this thesis proposes in this direction, to try to understand the conceptual meaning of social technology. The aim of the study was to identify and analyze the social representations of subjects that reflect the relationship plural and historical homogeneity of social technology with the group, and in everyday communicative practices. Is based on social representations theory, conceived by Moscovici (1961/1978/2012), the Central Nucleus Theory proposed by Abric (1987, 1994, 2003a, 2003b), assisted by the models in this discussion Marxist theorists, pragmatists and constructivists, and, in view of the size psicossociotécnica. The work set up in two phases: descriptive documentary research and qualitative empirical research. The first refers to the identification of possible subjects related to programs of post-graduate studies in higher education institutions in Brazil, the portal of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The second investigated the social representations of 83 subjects, teachers, researchers selected programs from post-graduate studies in all fields of knowledge on social technology. Treatment of multiple data was based on lexical analysis software (ALCESTE) Reinert (1990), analysis evocations (EVOC) Verger (1992), the centrality index of representational elements (INCEV) Verger (1992), and analysis of similarity (SIMI) Flament (1986). Social representations of Brazilian scientific community about the social technology reveal a web of relationships in the process of collective construction, carried out by the social actor in strategic decisions and production. The core features elements: social inclusion through solidarity network and ethics, knowledge appropriation by the social actor, quality of life, involvement and respect for the community and the environment, low cost and simplicity. The system is characterized by peripheral elements: social innovation, reaplicabilidade, sustainable human, social, economic (jobs and income), policy, and environmental, for effective social change. In the structural approach, the social representations, as set organized, hosting different transverse dimensions, among them psicossociotécnica dimension, as it refers to the awareness of the actors involved, innovative entrepreneurs aware of the universe sociotechnical, which corroborates the uniqueness of social technology.