Abstract

AGUIAR, Wanda Maria Junqueira  and  OZELLA, Sergio. The meaning core as an instrument for the understanding of the sense constitution. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.2, pp. 222-245. ISSN 1414-9893.

The main objective of this article is to give the researchers tools,using the sociohistoric psychological view, in the analyses procedure of the qualitative material, aiming to learn the sense that constitutes the speech content of the subject informant, through what we call the meaning core. In the first part, a retake of the theoretical methodological aspects developed basically by Vigotski is done, such as the importance of the historical and dialectical materialism method, the language and thought category and the notions of meaning and sense, necessities and goals. In the second part, we propose some stages of procedures to organize and analyze the collected material, mainly through the interviews, aiming to get in the core of the meaning in order to learn the sense and the subjective quality of the informants. We point out three stages: pre - indicators, indicators and meaning core. To complete the text, we illustrated the proposals procedure with a master dissertation and a Phd thesis orientated by the authors as a way to visualize the analysis of the meaning core.

Keywords : Sociohistoric Psychology; Methodology; Sense; Meaning core.

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