A PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO COMO CENÁRIO SOCIAL DE CONSTITUIÇÃO DE SUBJETIVIDADES

Abstract

This research investigates the post-graduation, presenting it as a social scenario that constitutes subjectivities. Through the means of indicators produced in monthly meetings with nine post-graduate students, carried out between March 2004 and May 2005, social subjectivity, a category developed by González Rey (2003), and specially sociometry, a category proposed by Moreno (1992), are explored aiming to broaden the reflection about the subjective social processes that structure the actions and inter-relations in the academy, constitute the post-graduates, and mold their writing. Social subjectivity refers to the existence of a social context of subjectivization that constitutes the subject and is constituted by it in a dynamic and reciprocal process. Sociometric analysis helps the investigation of complex processes related to choices, acceptances, rejections, mutual or not, which configure a social reality that is not apparent and many times is in dissonance with the official truth about the relations. Throughout the period of this research, three scenarios for analyses were designed: the post-graduation classroom, the dyad advisor-postgraduate student, and the post-graduate students private life. The results of the present research point to the need of reflection about the non-official forms of how the theoretical-methodological diversity is experienced in the post-graduation. In the analysis, the subject whom the academic society is committed with is questioned: on the one hand there is the autonomous subject, who is reflexive and able to live with and dialogue with diversity; on the other hand, there is the adherent subject, who is passive and involved in situations of subordination and commited with the dialogue between peers, in a self-confirmation exercise. The results here obtained also emphazise the need of rethinking the parameters that regulate the practice of advising in the post-graduation.