Temporality and social representations: Stability and dynamic of elements activated by the Brazilian military regime

Authors

  • Rafael Pecly Wolter Adjunct professor at the UNIVERSO and University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Post-Graduation Programme in Social Psychology.
  • João Fernando Rech Wachelke Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Psychology of the Federal University of Uberlândia, head of the laboratory and research group ECLIPSE (Laboratório Interinstitucional de Psicologia Societal ‑ UFU/UERJ/UFES/UFRGS) and collaborator researcher of the LACCOS‑UFSC (Laboratório de Psicologia Social da Comunicação e Cognição).
  • Celso Pereira de Sa Visiting professor of the Post-Graduation Programme in Social Psychology at the UERJ.
  • Aline Passeri Dias Secretary of the journal "Psicologia e Saber Social", published by the UERJ.
  • Denis Giovani Monteiro Naiff Adjunct professor II at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_58-1_6

Keywords:

structure, temporality, stability, social representations, central core

Abstract

The structural approach of social representations considers that a social representation is composed of cognems with different status: central and peripheral. All perspectives sustain that the representations’ phenomenon is historic and linked to temporality. It seems to us that such temporality, both synchronic and diachronic, may operate as a criterion to distinguish central from peripheral elements, since the former are more stable than the latter by definition. In this work we present a study about the representation of the Brazilian Military Regime among young people (N = 295) that employed different techniques to distinguish central and peripheral elements (basic cognitive schemes and prototypical analysis). The results of the study are compared with previous research about the same object. The comparison of the results shows that only three cognems (censorship, dictatorship and repression) keep their central status regardless of the technique and moment. As a conclusion, we discuss the pertinence of diachronic and inter‑technique comparisons to study the representational structure.

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Author Biographies

Rafael Pecly Wolter, Adjunct professor at the UNIVERSO and University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Post-Graduation Programme in Social Psychology.

Possui graduação em psicologia pela universidade de Paris V (Rene Descartes) (2004) e “master recherche” em Psicologia Social pela universidade de Paris V (Rene Descartes) (2005). Doutor em psicologia pela Université Paris Descartes, PARIS V, França . Pós‑doutor em psicologia Social pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

João Fernando Rech Wachelke, Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Psychology of the Federal University of Uberlândia, head of the laboratory and research group ECLIPSE (Laboratório Interinstitucional de Psicologia Societal ‑ UFU/UERJ/UFES/UFRGS) and collaborator researcher of the LACCOS‑UFSC (Laboratório de Psicologia Social da Comunicação e Cognição).

Doutor em Psicologia Social e da Personalidade pela Università degli studi di Padova, Mestre e Psicólogo pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Celso Pereira de Sa, Visiting professor of the Post-Graduation Programme in Social Psychology at the UERJ.

Psicólogo pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro ‑
UERJ (1971), Mestre (1978) e Doutor em Psicologia (1985),
pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas, com pós‑doutorado
na Université de Provence (1996).

Aline Passeri Dias, Secretary of the journal "Psicologia e Saber Social", published by the UERJ.

Psicóloga pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Mestre em Psicologia Social pelo Programa de Pós‑Graduação em Psicologia Social na UERJ.

Denis Giovani Monteiro Naiff, Adjunct professor II at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro.

Possui graduação em Psicologia pela Universidade de Brasília (1996), mestrado em Psicologia pela Universidade de Brasília
(1999) e doutorado em Psicologia Social pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2005).

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Published

2016-03-01

How to Cite

Wolter, R. P., Wachelke, J. F. R., Sa, C. P. de, Dias, A. P., & Naiff, D. G. M. (2016). Temporality and social representations: Stability and dynamic of elements activated by the Brazilian military regime. Psychologica, 58(1), 107-125. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_58-1_6

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 1 (2015)

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