Sacerdócio, profissão e seus dilemas morais: estudo sociológico de subjetivações e objetivações nas trajetórias de policiais militares do estado do Ceará

Abstract

The object of this thesis is to describe and analyze the processes of transformation of the personal, family, and professional lives of military policemen from Ceará, based on their narratives. The analytical perspective starts from the police subjectivations about their professional trajectories. Nevertheless, the study goes through a possible crisis of militarism, a fact that drives the displacement on the perceptions of hierarchy and discipline experienced by military policemen in their practices. Daily conflicts become evident as a result of this symbolic deconstruction and a new grammar of social recognition becomes part of the narratives. The subjectivations of the policemen in relation to their work permeate multiple realities, intending and displacing different perception and evaluation schemes around demands for their own ethos, which is a reason for social suffering and existential anxiety in relation to their role, status and citizenship. Through the narratives about their professional trajectories, military policemen expose a series of ambivalences about what it is to "be a policeman". At the same time in which they activate predicates such as honor, prestige, courage, bravery and authority, elements such as mental wear, humiliation, unrealization, professional devaluation and loss of status also appear with narrative force. The lived experiences alter the moral meanings of police self-image and the corporate identity strength becomes relativized. In this sense, the task of this analytical enterprise is to bring to the debate moralities in flux, as the process of recognition and professionalization becomes an agenda of debate. The methodological strategy of this enterprise is based on fieldwork with military police officers over the last ten years, in addition to in-depth interviews with these social agents.