Nas malhas da inconstância: a sociologia como opção de formação profissional no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Valdir Aragão do
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RELACult - Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura e Sociedade
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.claec.org/index.php/relacult/article/view/2267
• topic: Professional Choice; High school; The sociologist profession in Brazil; Job market.; Elección Profesional; Escuela secundaria; La profesión de sociólogo en Brasil; Mercado de trabajo.; Escolha Profissional; Ensino Médio; A profissão de sociólogo no Brasil; Mercado de trabalho.; choix professionnel ; Lycée; La profession de sociologue au Brésil ; Marché de l'emploi.

In Brazilian society there is a consensus that the choice of some professions – which require university education – is a mistake, since training in these areas would leave people at the mercy of difficulties in terms of allocation in the labor market and pecuniary retribution, said of another way, “starving”. These representations permeate the social fabric, and have, for the most part, sociology and philosophy as examples par excellence. The article aims to address some questions regarding the choice of the sociologist profession in Brazil, seeking to understand and answer the following questions: how are the choices regarding the professional future made by the new generations? What are the reasons that determine and/or condition them? How does the job market influence these choices? How does capitalism and the consumer society contribute to these choices? To answer these questions, although provisional, qualitative research was adopted as a method. To obtain the bibliographic and documentary material, the methodological strategy used was the bibliographic and documentary research, in which the search platforms Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) were used. , Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) and Google Search. The searches on the aforementioned platforms were carried out using the following keywords: sociology and profession; the profession of sociologist in Brazil; professional vocation; career choice among young students. In this way, theses, dissertations, academic articles, course conclusion works and interviews/depositions of specialists in education – extracted from publications in various media – make up the raw material that underpins the conclusions presented here. It is concluded, at the end of this review work, that sociology is not one of the formations considered by the new generations when choosing professions in Brazil, because it does not have social prestige, does not present possibilities for economic ascension and does not offer decent conditions when of carrying out their work activities.