ANCILLOTTI, Caio Gracco Lima    SILVA, Priscilla de Oliveira Martins da. Representations and Social Practices in Dispute: Paid Domestic Work According to Social Network Reports. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2023, 23, 1, pp.28-48.   03--2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2023.75297.

This documentary study aimed to analyse the social representations about paid domestic work shared on Facebook page “Eu, Empregada Doméstica” and the social practices arising from them. For this purpose, 276 reports were collected, which comprised the corpus submitted to a Descending Hierarchical Classification in the software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaire (IRaMuTeQ). The results indicated the existence of five classes, named: "Perspectives", "Trajectories", "Kitchen Rules", "Labor Relations" and "Tasks". The analysis demonstrated that there was a representational dissent, characterized by the confrontation of a negative perspective about the profession, in which the rules, tasks and interpersonal relationships established were marked by practices of violence, and another of a positive character, which consisted of the identity affirmation and in search of a different reality from that experienced as a domestic worker. It was concluded that the reports published portray the dispute between hegemonic social representations, associated with daily work, and opposition social representations, manifested in the denunciations exposed by professionals on social network, signalling the presence of a movement, in digital space, which aims to transform the still negative reality of the profession.

: domestic work; domestic employment; social representations; social practices..

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