Aging in contemporary Brazilian Sociology: preliminary notes

• Autor(a) principal: Pedro, Wilson José Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Mena-Chalco, Jesús P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/27239
• topic: Aging; Bibliometrics; Research Groups; Brazil.; Envelhecimento; Bibliometria; Grupos de Pesquisa; Brasil.

This article proposes to characterize some bibliographic contributions of contemporary Brazilian Sociology of aging. Having as guiding questions: hat are the research groups and to prioritize in their investigations on the topic aging, there was an exploratory study on the data available in the CNPq Research Groups Directory. From the descriptors aging and gerontology, in the area of ​​Humanities, they identified 53 groups (n = 9 Anthropology, Education n = 13; n = 1 Philosophy Psychology n = 25; Sociology n = 5). We used the Script Lattes software for characterization of the research groups. Altogether, they identified 440 researchers between leaders and members. It was observed that 20% of researchers working in more than one group. The results point to reflect the relevant aspects of sociology spectrum and its capillarity in the Humanities, with significant indicators of human resources, scientific productions, as well as the geographical location of researchers and co-authorship networks.