Psicologia Social e educação no Brasil: os estudos de Dante Moreira Leite sobre ideologia e preconceito

• Autor(a) principal: Zampronha, Maria Amélia Güllnitz
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20365
• topic: Leite, Dante Moreira [1927-1976]; Ideologia; Preconceitos; Caracteristicas nacionais brasileiras; Ideology; Prejudice; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO

This thesis aims to analyse the potential for knowledge produced in the field of Psychology to provide social critique. This objective was pursued here from an analysis made to part of Dante Moreira Leite’s work. Dante was an intellectual who has played an important role in the history of Brazilian Psychology. His work in the regulation of psychologist profession, dissemination of the science in question, translation of 49 books regarding Psychology, Sociology, Methodology of social research and Education and as a researcher of the fields of Psychology and Education, among which prejudice, ideology and Brazilian national character are of great recognition. It is important to highlight and display his work insofar as the present research analyses and discusses unresolved social, political, psychological and educational issues, mentioned in his writings, and that remain under discussion as of today. Leite´s first publishes, in 1950, refer to the conveyance of moral values and prejudice through children's textbooks. Afterwards, in his doctoral dissertation in 1954, he expanded the study of prejudice conducting then a study regarding Brazilian national character. He reaches the conclusion that the concept is used as ideology to justify social differences and does not mean the awareness of a nation’s unity, but rather an obstacle to achieve freedom. More than ten years later, in 1969, the author publishes a book, entitled The Brazilian national character: history of an ideology, in which he reports the continuity of his research, in a more detailed way and with analysis of a greater number of authors and theories. The researcher examines the relationship between national character, ethnocentrism, nationalism, prejudice and ideology. He arrives at similar conclusions. However, this time, he finds theories which he identifies as forms of overcoming the national character’s ideology. The relevance of these studies lays in how, even at different moments during his career, Leite was able to develop as a researcher, as he progresses on the understanding of topics of his interest. Even more because his writes examine Brazilian society as well as the way it is portrayed in national literature and the thinking that characterized the theoretical developments of the first half of the twentieth century. All things considered, these works of Dante Moreira Leite were chosen as the most relevant research source for this study. The main goal is to identify how the researcher developed the concepts of ideology and prejudice. The hypothesis, which has been confirmed, is that his concept of ideology limits his analysis to the psychological field, without the possibility of social critique. This study is grounded on the critical theory of society