A representação social de professor em fanpages do Facebook

Abstract

Since the development of the digital technologies, the social networkings have efficiently disseminated representations about different social objects and features. Based on this, we analyze the social representation of teacher occupation that is shared on the Facebook fan pages called “Professor dá Depressão” and “Profissão Professor”. With the support of the theory of social representations (MOSCOVICI, 1978; JODELET, 1989; 2001), we selected images posted on those fan pages, focusing especially on their likes, comments and shares about the teacher occupation. After being classified by viewpoints about the teacher occupation, we used the analysis of content (BARDIN, 1977) to explore the symbolic elements in the comments related to those images. The data show the teacher like a “slave of the job”, since the society thinks of teachers as people who work exhaustedly, earn less than they deserve, and, because of this, they are seen as oppressed and socially unsuccessful subjects.