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Published on: July 31, 2007
[Discourse of the collective subject, complexity and self-organization]
Fernando Lefevre1, Ana Maria Cavalcanti Lefevre, Maria Cristina da Costa Marques
1Departamento de Prática de Saude Pública, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 01246-000. flefevre@usp.br
Abstract:
The aim of the present work is to discuss some consequences of the method called Discourse of the Collective Subject concerning the semantic density of the qualitative data, that implies a significantly and more relevant presence of the collective thought as empirical reality in qualitative researches. Such a presence of the empirical material, associated to the understanding of the collective thought as referent, allows a dialogue of the descriptive and interpretative moment in this variety of research. This in turn alludes to a new possibility that points out to the uncertain and unexpected contributing to a renewed understanding of the nature and processes of the social representations as complex realities.
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