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

• Autor(a) principal: Wolter, Rafael Pecly
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Wachelke, João Fernando Rech, Sa, Celso Pereira de, Dias, Aline Passeri, Naiff, Denis Giovani Monteiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_58-1_6
• topic: estrutura; temporalidade; estabilidade; representações sociais; núcleo central; structure; temporality; stability; social representations; central core

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.