O processo de categorização social: um estudo do processo através da análise de conteúdo

Abstract

The authors have searched several postulates concerning the process of social categorization. They have surveyed thirty students (15 on Psychology and 15 Economics) wich were divided into three groups in order to: creating professional categories of inclusion and contrast and pinting their features,the reasons of their conception, their differences, their prototypes and the degree of feature of every one on the categories. The free answers viewed through a morpho-syntatical content analysis did not show relevant differences between Psychologist and Economist. The thematic categorization shows differences between the two groups. These data (as well as those reffering to prototypes and to attribution of degrees offeaturing) were completely analysed and argued according to categorization phenomena to identification and social representation.