Projeto social: um objeto de estudo construído na teia de suas significações sociais / Not informed by the author
AUTOR(ES)
Leila Aparecida Bomfim
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
This research aims to study the expression social project. The investigation originated in the identification, delimitation and analysis of images, thoughts, feelings and meanings of this term, as they were expressed by social agents directly involved in such practice. These agents were the subjects in our investigation and were organized in groups according to their roles in the institutional and practical realm of social projects, namely: beneficiaries, technicians and investment decision-makers. Using the ALCESTE method (lexical analysis of co-occurring words within a setting of text segments) for analyzing speeches and the performance of Operative Groups in so far as the dynamics of interactions between participants was concerned, we consider that common thematas have been identified in different groups. Such thematas, as manifested by the following expressions: caring for and happiness, emerged as images and could be found in all groups, thus associating social project to notions around providing, which orient behaviors of people and/or institutions towards self-satisfaction and/or general welfare. These ideas underlie link configurations that are subjective and objective, polarized and hierarchical between providers and destitute, strong and frail, capacitated and incapacitated, enterprisers and dependent, and these shall condition positions of either included or aspiring to social inclusion. Due to research participants belonging to different social groups, societies are seen as communities where either one lives in, or as connections between specific places and the planet, under an economic point of view of globalized geopolitics. Based on the development of this research and on the social representations analysis of the object social project, along with Adornos critical theory perspective, we come to an opening towards a critical reflection. From the whole of these representations, two aspects are gathered in order to go under dialectic scrutiny: (1) the known side rational constructions over intervention plans on social needs/issues aiming to solutions or transformations towards desired realities and (2) the dark side nuclei of social interactions turned dynamic on account of projects where three intertwined realms can be seen: psycho-social, structured over relations between the unequal under a hierarchical form; epistemological, where naturalized forms of thinking predominate and where concrete and abstract thinking are split; political, bounded to a interplay of forces that may give feasibility to, turn difficult, reduce or even render projects impossible. In the underlying semantics an absence of connotations referring to Social Justice can be found in the psycho-social, epistemological and political dimensions, which brings in some perplexity. This can be accounted for because the idea of Justice could and should base rational constructions and behaviors towards the actualization of Human Rights as paradigms used to imagine ideal realities that would orient action within the investigated projects.
ASSUNTO(S)
human rights representação social justiça social projects evaluation projeto social social justice avaliação de projetos direitos humanos social representation intervenção social social intervention social project
