Abstract

D'AVILA, Geruza Tavares  and  MELO, Thainara Granero de. Subjectivity and social psychology of work: theoretical-methodological reflections from two investigations. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.1, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i1.e11405.

This article problematizes the relationship between subjectivity and works in research in Social Psychology of Work (PST). The objective is to explain PST characteristics and the possible relationships with different theoretical-methodological approaches, especially from two doctoral pieces of research that addressed the relationship between subjectivity and work in different contexts, urban and rural. The first of them, carried out between 2010 and 2014, was based on Socio-Historical Psychology and sought to understand the trajectory and meanings attributed to work by young professionals who graduated from a university in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro/ RJ, Brazil. The second investigation, in turn, was developed based on Psychosociology and Clinical Sociology and carried out between 2015 and 2019 in the northeast region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, with a group of settled rural workers. Despite being carried out in different spaces and times, when revisiting the theses, we observed a sign of a tendency of workers to fight for places in a more individualized way in the precarious world of work, which denotes how much the production of subjectivities is related to work and the objective conditions in which we live.

Keywords : subjectivity; work; social psychology of work; qualitative research.

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