A sobrevivência da cultura: uma análise na obra de B. F. Skinner

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcanti, Samanta Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16737
• topic: Cultura; Sobrevivência da cultura; Behaviorismo radical; Planejamento cultural; Skinner; Culture; Survival of the culture; Radical Behaviorism; Cultural engeneering; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

Skinner has addressed, in different moments of his work, the contemporary issues and their implications to the remote future of culture. This paper consists of an analysis and systematization of Skinner s proposals which ultimately aim to promote the survival of culture. Both main data resources were the books Science and Human Behavior (1953) and The Technology of Teaching (1968), as well as other texts which ended up being relevant to complement the results obtained. Initially, it were selected, from each of the read works, excerpts referred to the Skinner s proposals of culture survival, brought along with the parts related to the issues that gave cause to it and their respective justifications. The proposals were gathered among three great categories: elimination of aversive control, the remote future as a target of behavior science and forward training as an education target. It was noted that the main proposals found in favor of the remote future of culture as the aim of the science of behavior regarded the necessity of a technology of intervention based on a science of behavior, which should be the main tool for the teaching of cultural practices which aim, ultimately, the survival of the culture. In relation to elimination of aversive control, it was noted that the practices proposed by Skinner suggest the substitution of aversive control by control by contingencies of positive reinforcement. The proposals gathered by the title forward training as an education target are related to an educational political reform having what should be taught and the techniques of teaching as the main changing points