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| Author(s): |
Katia de Souza Amorim
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2002-06-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Clotilde Theresinha Rosseti Ferreira;
Mara Ignez Campos de Carvalho;
Juan Stuardo Yazlle Rocha;
Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka;
Jaan Valsiner
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| Advisor: | Maria Clotilde Theresinha Rosseti Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
This thesis is part of a wide research investigation, which is constructing the Network of Meanings theoretical-methodological perspective, with the aim to understand and investigate human development processes. Such perspective presupposes development as occurring in context, that is, through person environment relationship. Within this last topic it is included the socio-historical matrix, conceived as composed by political, economical, cultural, social and historical elements, and as having a semiotic nature. Thus, considering the materiality of the sign, it is inferred that the socio-historical matrix has concreteness in the here-and-now situations. Based on this, a goal was defined to the present study: investigate the way by which the socio-historical matrix materialization occurs, through the analysis of the babies' attendance at daycare center. Empirical data is related to seven cases selected from the research project Babies adaptation processes at a daycare center", which has followed processes of 21 babies, their families and caregivers after the babies admission to a university daycare. Corpus was organized through interviews (mothers, caregivers and technicians) and videotape scenes (three first months of the babies attendance), constructing a history of each of the seven episodes. Microgenetic analysis was done, searching for the identification and apprehension of the sign materiality of the socio-historical matrix, in different moments of the processes. Due to a very wide set of data obtained, the discussion was restricted to those elements related to the family characteristics, the situation of the daycare attendance per se, the way relationships were established and the way adults has dealt with the babies illness episodes. Analysis revealed that concreteness of the socio-historical matrix occurs through very different forms, as at the institutions level (family and day care), through its structure, its main goals, its social and spatial organization, the kind of relationship established within it, etc. Socio-historical matrix materiality was also identified through the concreteness of the social roles with the social-historical meanings they bring to the here-and-now. Besides, through the role coordination, which incarnates roles forms proper to that culture or social group. It was also identified that the socio-historical matrix concreteness occurs through discourses and practices by which adults take daily care of the babies and, specifically, in the event of illness episodes. Yet that, for each of those socio-historical matrix aspects, there is a multiplicity of voices derived from different historical times and social processes. These voices can reveal themselves as conflictive, as they entail diverse conceptions, emotions and practices, leading to ambiguity and even personal and social confrontations. All of those are negotiated in the situations, being accepted, rejected or modified by the persons within the relations in the situation. Articulations between such discourses are done in the here-and-now, through dialogical processes, some of which can lead to transformations and construction of new discourses. (AU) | |