ANÁLISE EXPLORATÓRIA DA DISCIPLINA DE PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL NO CENÁRIO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The new theoretical and methodological discussions contributed to the exercise of a new characterization of Social Psychology. This pluralization opened space for a technical-theoretical fluidity that expands the objects analyzed and makes it difficult to have a panoramic understanding of the teaching of Social Psychology in the Brazilian educational scenario. To analyze how the discipline of Social Psychology has been used in undergraduate Psychology courses at higher education institutions in the country. This research adopts a transversal, qualitative approach, of the documentary analysis type and unfolds in two main stages: 1) identification of higher education institutions and 2) conducting documentary research based on the Curricular Matrices of Psychology courses, P 18 disciplines were found with different nomenclatures but related to the discipline of Social Psychology. It was possible to verify that among the two main references used, the most mentioned works are “Social Psychology: The Man in Motion” by S. T. M. Lane and W. Codo and “The Roots of Modern Social Psychology” by Robert M. Farr, both present in the majority in the Social Psychology I disciplines. The 109 syllabuses from the 73 selected institutions comprised the Brasil corpus, which was subjected to a lexicographic analysis of the CHD modality. These 109 texts were divided into 744 text segments (ST). Of which, 627 segments were retained in the CHD (84.27% of the total). Insofar as a considerable number of nomenclatures replacing the term “Social Psychology” were found, there is evidence of an attempt to move away from a classical model definition of this field of study. The distribution of the discipline across the five regions of the country is uneven. Another relevant aspect of the current analysis is the observation of the pluralization of references that guide the teaching of this discipline.