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CHAMON, Edna Maria Querido de Oliveira. Social representation of research by phd students en science. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2006, vol.6, n.2, pp. 21-33. ISSN 1808-4281.

In this paper we propose to analyze the social representation of the research by the PhD students developing a dissertation in exact sciences. To identify the structure of social representation of research, we organized a questionnaire with questions based on a Likert scale. The questionnaire was proposed to 144 PhD students, from several areas of exact science. A factor analysis showed five main dimensions for the social representation: 1) student professional project; 2) research ideal model; 3) problem solving; 4) research methodology; 5) opposition between theory and practice or, equivalently, between knowledge and labor. Results show a clear opposition between theoretical and applied research in terms of main goals, problems, and means. This separation suggests an anchorage on thinking categories dispersed in the public in general.

Palabras clave : Social representation; PhD students; research representation.

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