Identity, feeling of belonging and collective action in localized agrifood systems. Example of the Serrano cheese in the Campos de Cima da Serra, Brazil

The study is aimed at linking social representations of identity and feeling of belonging to territory of farmers, to their degree of involvement in collective action within localized agrifood systems (LAS). The study was conducted with producers’ families producing Serrano cheese, in the mountains of the Campos de Cima da Serra, in southern Brazil. Collective action for the valorization of the Serrano cheese relied on the producers’ associations, which are the only form of collective organization. Fifty-four families were selected according to their level of involvement in collective action. First, we used a quantitative approach called the free word association, analyzed by Factorial Correspondence Analysis. Second, we asked closed questions to the producers to assess their feeling of belonging. We showed that the content of the social representation reflected the participation of producers in collective action. Producers who put forward the typicality of the cheese, the territory and their identity, were the most engaged in the associations. On the other hand, producers not involved in associations put forward the difficulties of their activity. In this sense, it appears valuable to encourage discussion between the different producers according to their level of involvement to build common representations that favor collective action for the defense and valorization of the Serrano cheese. Nonetheless, most producers tended to show a high feeling of belonging which could form the basis for discussion. However, collective action in the LAS follows a top-down model led by extension services, in which the producers need to be integrated in a more participatory governance to lead more efficient projects.

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Representações sociais dos combustíveis: reflexões para o ensino de Química e Ciências na abordagem CTS

#Tear: Revista de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia ◽

10.35819/tear.v4.n2.a1918 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Carlos Ventura Fonseca

Keyword(s):

Science Teachers ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Chemistry Teaching ◽

Educational Approach ◽

Methodological Choices ◽

The Social ◽

Teacher Researcher ◽

Free Word

Resumo: Este trabalho, identificado com o paradigma do professor-pesquisador, buscou investigar as representações sociais de estudantes de um curso Técnico em Eletrônica integrado ao ensino médio sobre o tema “combustível”. Além disso, procurou identificar como essas informações podem qualificar o trabalho de professores-pesquisadores de Química e Ciências no contexto da sala de aula, especificamente pensando-se em uma abordagem CTS. As opções metodológicas envolveram a aplicação de um questionário contendo três questões interconectadas, que exploraram: respostas descritivas, associação livre de palavras e expressão através de desenho. A análise de conteúdo dos dados obtidos evidenciou que os alunos entendem os combustíveis como materiais relacionados à Química, sendo uma necessidade social para a produção de energia, em que pesem os problemas ambientais decorrentes de seu uso. Os extratos analíticos também revelaram que o estudo das representações sociais, no âmbito das pesquisas educacionais, viabiliza a explicitação das teorias de senso comum dos estudantes e colabora para o planejamento e a efetivação de uma abordagem pedagógica com viés crítico sobre a sociedade, a tecnologia e a ciência. Palavras-chave: Representações sociais. Combustíveis. Ensino de Química. CTS. SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ON FUEL: REFLECTIONS FOR THE CHEMISTRY AND SCIENCE EDUCATION IN STS APPROACH Abstract: This work, identified with the paradigm of teacher-researcher, sought to investigate the social representations on "fuel" of students belonging to an electronic technical course in integrated high school. Moreover, sought to identify how this information may qualify the work of Chemical and Science teachers-researchers in the context of the classroom, specifically thinking into a STS approach. The methodological choices involved the application of a questionnaire containing three interconnected questions that explored: descriptive answers, free word association and expression through drawing. The content analysis of the data obtained showed that students understand the fuel as related to chemical materials, being a social need for energy production, in spite of the environmental problems arising from its use. Analytical extracts also revealed that the study of social representations in the context of educational research enables the explanation of common sense theories of students and collaborate to the planning and execution of an educational approach with critical bias on society, technology and science. Keywords: Social representation. Fuel. Chemistry teaching. STS.

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O núcleo central da representação social de estagiários(as) do curso de Pedagogia/UERN acerca da docência

Revista Principia - Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB ◽

10.18265/1517-0306a2020v1n52p157-168 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (52) ◽

pp. 157

Author(s):

Antônia Maíra Emelly Cabral da Silva Vieira ◽

Elda Silva Do Nascimento Melo

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Rio Grande ◽

Social Representation ◽

Central Nucleus ◽

Font Size ◽

The Social ◽

Central Elements ◽

Free Word

This study is part of the master’s dissertation entitled “The social representation of interns of the Education course about teaching” presented to the postgraduate program in Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The research seeks to identify the social representation of interns of the Education course at UERN about teaching. We present the results of the evaluation of the TALP (Free Word Association Technique), analyzed in the light of the Theory of Social Representations (MOSCOVICI, 1978) and the Central Nucleus Theory (ABRIC, 1998) with the help of EVOC software and the technique of content analysis (BARDIN, 2011) that allowed us to visualize the central nucleus of the social representation of teaching. The results contemplate regularities that helped us to perceive that the subjects of the research construct a social representation of teaching, rooted in the central elements as: love, dedication, teaching and learning.

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Social representations of child and adolescent sexual abuse: A study of juridical professionals

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/1982-0275201936e180085 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

Author(s):

Camila de Alencar PEREIRA ◽

Silvana Carneiro MACIEL ◽

Dayse Barbosa SILVA ◽

Luã Medeiros Fernandes de MELO

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Child And Adolescent ◽

Central Core ◽

Legal Professionals ◽

Core Theory ◽

The Social ◽

Adolescent Sexual Abuse ◽

Free Word

Abstract This study sought to identify the structure of legal professionals’ representations of child and adolescent sexual abuse anchored by the central core theory of social representations. The sample included 31 professionals responsible for implementing public policies in relation to victims, their family members, and aggressors. A sociodemographic questionnaire was employed with a free word association task. The resulting data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 21.0 and the R Interface for Multidimensional Analyses of Texts and Questionnaires, respectively. The central core of the professionals’ representations included the terms “violence”, “trauma”, and “grief”; furthermore, they pathologized the abuser, and their representations were anchored by criminological and psychological explanations of sexual abuse. This fragmented view of sexual abuse lacks macroexplanations that address cultural and social factors as well as proposals that involve society as a whole.

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Cognitive analysis of the social representations of suicide among hospital emergency professionals

SMAD Revista Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool e Drogas (Edição em Português) ◽

10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2020.166424 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 3-12

Author(s):

Saulo Sacramento Meira ◽

Alba Benemérita Alves Vilela ◽

Claudia Ribeiro Santos Lopes ◽

Jeorgia Pereira Alves ◽

Hernane Borges de Barros Pereira

Keyword(s):

Word Association ◽

Semantic Network ◽

Social Representations ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Cognitive Network ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

The Social ◽

Lack Of Control ◽

Conflict Solution ◽

Free Word

Objective: to analyze the constitutive contents of the social representations of suicide by health professionals in the emergency department through an analysis of the cognitive network. Method: study based on the Theory of Social Representations carried out with 104 emergency room professionals from a hospital in Bahia, Brazil. A free word association task was conducted using the term suicide enabling the creation of a semantic network that was analyzed using the Cognitive Network Analysis model. Results: this network was composed of 42 vertices (i.e., words evoked by the professionals) and 273 edges (i.e., connections between words), with a mean degree of 13. The representational structure was formed by four dimensions (biological, affective-psychological, social, and religious) that explained the interface between the primary (i.e., central core) terms “despair,” “depression,” “disease,” “sadness,” “death,” “absence of God,” and “family fragility” and the secondary (i.e., periphery) terms “loneliness,” “lack of love,” “weakness,” “emotional distress,” “frustration,” “conflict,” “solution,” “mistake,” “fear,” “non-acceptance,” “anxiety,” “lack of control,” and “kill.” Conclusion: despite the presence of reductionist aspects, the representational structure created by the healthcare professionals of the investigated hospital conveyed the meaning and image of suicide across its multidimensional aspects, favoringchanges in individual and collective practices ...

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Young people in oncological treatment during COVID-19: indicators of the social representation of the coronavírus

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil ◽

10.1590/1806-9304202100s100010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (suppl 1) ◽

pp. 197-204

Author(s):

Marina Maria Austregésilo Saraiva da Silva ◽

Cybelle Cavalcanti Accioly ◽

Ana Paula Amaral Pedrosa ◽

Stéphanie Maximiano de Azevedo ◽

Eliane Nóbrega Albuquerque ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cancer Treatment ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Social Representation ◽

Care Plan ◽

Oncological Treatment ◽

Procedural Approach ◽

Current Period ◽

The Social

Abstract Objectives: to understand indicators of the social representation of the coronavirus in adolescents undergoing cancer treatment during the COVID -19pandemic. Methods: the theory of social representations was used as theoretical and methodological support in its procedural approach in an exploratory study of a qualitative nature. The free word association technique was used in the application of virtual forms using guidelines of the snowball method. The terms ‘Coronavirus’, ‘Going to the hospital’ and ‘Cancer treatment’ were applied. After that moment, the participants were asked for a hierarchy and justification of the evoked words. Data analysis was based on content analysis and frequency distribution of the content produced. Results: articulations were made on the impacts that the pandemic situation had on the treatment experience of that population. It was identified a character endowed with fear and tension about the elaboration of the reality of these subjects in the current period in face of the inevitability of a hospital scenario that facilitates contamination and facing the immunological vulnerability characteristic of their treatments. Conclusions: the participants constructed different contents of psychological suffering aimed at expressions of fear and insecurity experienced during the pandemic period in the face of assistance in the hospital setting. This study is understood as a contribution to more effective actions in order to adapt the care plan of this population, aiming at future professional interventions.

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The Construction of the Psycho-sociological Knowledge on Diabetes Mellitus

Psico-USF ◽

10.1590/1413-82712018230201 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 191-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fabrycianne Gonçalves Costa ◽

Maria da Penha de Lima Coutinho

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Factorial Correspondence Analysis ◽

Food Control ◽

Word Association Test ◽

Mood Swing ◽

The Social ◽

Emotional Aspects ◽

Medical Guidelines

Abstract This study aims to analyze the social representations elaborated by diabetic’s people on diabetes mellitus and your treatment. The sample was composed of 80 participants with ages between 21 and 83 years old (M= 55.92, SD = 12.06), who answered to a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Word Association Test. The data were submitted to SPSS - 19.0 and Tri-deux-mots software and analyzed using descriptive statistics and factorial correspondence analysis. The results showed that the psychosocial knowledge construction of diabetes doesn´t differ from scientific knowledge, while chronic disease, related to blood sugar problems, mood swing and life danger. The treatment, emerged associated as a food control, adherence and follow medical guidelines. It is hoped, that these results will contribute to enlarge the this disease visibility and with the therapeutic practices development in the context of diabetes, targeting both the physical and emotional aspects.

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The principles of the Brazilian Unified Health System, studied based on similitude analysis

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0104-1169.2925.2395 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 59-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ana Paula Munhen de Pontes ◽

Denize Cristina de Oliveira ◽

Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes

Keyword(s):

Health System ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Unified Health System ◽

The Social ◽

Health Institutions ◽

Representational Change ◽

Organizational Principles ◽

Free Word

OBJECTIVES: to analyze and compare the incorporation of the ethical-doctrinal and organizational principles into the social representations of the Unified Health System (SUS) among health professionals. METHOD: a study grounded in Social Representations Theory, undertaken with 125 subjects, in eight health institutions in Rio de Janeiro. The free word association technique was applied to the induction term "SUS", the words evoked being analyzed using the techniques of the Vergès matrix and similitude analysis. RESULTS: it was identified that the professionals' social representations vary depending on their level of education, and that those with higher education represent a subgroup responsible for the process of representational change identified. This result was confirmed through similitude analysis. CONCLUSION: a process of representational change is ongoing, in which it was ascertained that the professionals incorporated the principles of the SUS into their symbolic constructions. The similitude analysis was shown to be a fruitful technique for research in nursing.

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What power? Social representations of ICTs’ appropriation for community empowerment in Latin American social movements

Semiotica ◽

10.1515/sem-2017-0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 (223) ◽

pp. 177-197

Author(s):

Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Collective Action ◽

Latin American ◽

Social Representations ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Social Representation ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual

AbstractThe article analyzes the social representations of ICTs’ appropriation for community empowerment by social movements. The study includes two recent Latin American student social movements: the Mexican #YoSoy132 and the Chilean student movement. Discourse analysis was used to examine interviews with participants in these social movements as well as other texts associated with their episodes of collective action. The discourse analysis was focused on four main dimensions of the social representations of ICTs’ appropriation: (1) the interrelationships between the technological and the socio-political and cultural dimensions; (2) the tension between a visibility-centered and an articulating-focused use of ICTs; (3) the tension between the individual and the collective dimensions; and (4) the articulation between ICTs-based collective action and offline one. The findings indicate that the online/offline and the visibility/articulation tensions are relevant dimensions, in an articulated way, of the social representation of ICTs’ appropriation for collective empowerment. The results also indicate that the sociopolitical goals of the social movements are a central mediation for the process of configuration of the social representation, as it is proved by the importance of the individual/collective tension for the process.

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Social Representations of the Coronavirus at the Beginning of the Pandemic in Russia

RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics ◽

10.22363/2313-1683-2021-18-2-422-444 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 422-444

Author(s):

Aleksandr I. Dontsov ◽

Olga Yu. Zotova ◽

Lyudmila V. Tarasova

Keyword(s):

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Alteration Zone ◽

Negative Experiences ◽

Media Impact ◽

Survey Techniques ◽

The Social ◽

The Media ◽

Two Stages

The coronavirus outbreak is a global event that has bypassed national borders and affected the entire world. Therefore, examining social representations of can reveal the problems that structure peoples experiences in a particular social context. To identify social representations of the coronavirus, the authors conducted a survey within the territory of the Sverdlovsk region. The survey covered the period from March 11 to May 11, 2020. The data were collected in two stages: at the first stage, there were 31 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in Russia, but no cases had yet been recorded in the Sverdlovsk region; at the second stage, the number of cases reached 1952 in the Sverdlovsk region and 221 344 throughout the country. The study used the word association tests, The Semantic Differential Scale (V.F. Petrenko), The Psychic Activation Assessment Methodology (L.A. Kurgan and T.A. Nemchin) and the questionnaire survey techniques. The findings showed that the significance of the coronavirus problem for the respondents varied in different periods of the pandemic. The core of the social representation is sustainable and coherent. It reflects the results of the media impact: death, panic. It also remains stable regardless of the time and involvement of the respondents in the pandemic. The potential alteration zone serves as a kind of taming of knowledge about the coronavirus, the operationalization of the coronavirus perception content into the language of changes in a persons everyday life - the coronavirus pandemic is understood as a flu epidemic and the need for self-isolation is a vacation, an opportunity to stay at home. Observation of the immediate affective reaction of the respondents to the trigger coronavirus uncovered the presence of emotional tension and the prevalence of negative experiences in them. The survey also showed that in the pandemic, being the main source of information and a means of communication, the media set trends for developing perceptions.

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What do we talk about when we talk about participation? Sense of community and social representations of participation

Europe’s Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5964/ejop.v15i2.1588 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 312-328

Author(s):

Alessia Rochira ◽

Evelyn De Simone ◽

Terri Mannarini ◽

Sergio Salvatore

Keyword(s):

Community Participation ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Word Association ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Association Task ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

Different Levels

The relationship between sense of community (SOC) and citizen participation has been extensively studied in community psychology. Connecting Social Representations and SOC theory, this study explored the lay meanings of citizen participation and its association with SOC. A word association task and a measure of territorial SOC were administered to 390 participants, and data analyzed to explore the contents of the social representations of citizen participation conveyed by the interviewees and their salience. Results revealed that different levels of SOC were associated with variations in the social representation of citizen participation. Specifically, among high-SOC participants the notion of formal political participation prevailed, while among low-SOC participants a more articulated vision emerged, encompassing social and community participation, and also conventional and non conventional types of participatory behaviors.

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