A construção da representação social de hierarquia na Força Aérea Brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Telles, Marta Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15095
• topic: Representations; Military staff; Hierarchy; Schools; Brazilian Air Force; Hierarquia; Militares; Escolas; Força Aérea Brasileira; Aeronáutica Brasil Aspectos psicológicos; Representações sociais; Disciplina militar; Brasil Força aérea Brasileira; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The general purpose of the present research is to examine the social representations of hierarchy built by the military personnel from Brazilian Air Force (FAB), considering their segmentations among groups of officers and graduates, according to the respective training methods, to the gender of its members, and also taking into account the stage of development of each one if they are formed, or are still under training processes. The theoretical background focuses the hierarchy itself, as a general principle adopted by military institutions, contemplated by the applicable laws as a rule for the military behavior, as provided for by the Military Ordinance (BRAZIL, 1980); in this study, the power shall be conceived under the perspective from Max Weber (1999), who refers to obedience as a result from the exercise of someone?s authority on others, and in accordance with Amitai Etzioni (1974), who understands power as someone?s skill of inducing any other to follow his/her orientations. Our work still presents the Theory of Social Representations proposed by Serge Moscovici (1961), who defines social representations as a tool to read the reality, and also the structural approach, suggested by Jean-Claude Abric (1976), according to which social representation is composed by the central system, integrated by a central core group, and by the peripheral system, formed by peripheral elements. Our sample was composed by 600 members of the military staff from schools of officers and graduates, supervised by the Air Force Command (COMAER): Air Force Academy (AFA), which is responsible for training Active-Duty Military Officers working for the Aviation, Administration and Infantry departments, the Air Force School of Specialists (EEAR), which is responsible for training graduated officers, and the Air Force Center of Specialized Training (CIEAR), which is in charge of training officers and graduated personnel in areas that are related to their field of specialization. The data hereby exposed were collected by means of the technique of free evocation to the prompting term hierarchy, by the use of characterization and general queries, composed by open and closed questions. The evocations were processed by the EVOC software, developed by Pierre Vergès (2005), while the closed questions were processed by the SPSS software, and the open ones were classified for the purpose of refining the analysis. The results disclosed by the comparison between the different segments as to the thematic content and structure of social representations allow us to ascertain that the themes respect and discipline are the most likely central elements of hierarchy for the group of 600 members of military who were inquired, thus characterizing the common and mutual basis shared at the military environment. Hierarchy, guided by a set of provisions that rule and ensure discipline and respect, orientates the military behavior during the training and throughout the career. Our analysis leads us to conclude that the different military segments from FAB are guided by the same social representation of hierarchy.