Socio-education and Identity: Using Foucault and Varela to Consider Sinase

Authors

  • Cleci Maraschin Ufrgs - Porto Alegre - RS
  • Édio Raniere Ufrgs - Porto Alegre - RS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802011000100012

Abstract

This article analyzes the use in public policies of an image concept that has various names: man, identity, I, self, personality, ego, soul, psyche, subjectivity and individuality. It discusses some of the resonances of this image-concept, the harm it causes and its vicissitudes when applied to public policies. The object of analysis was the National System of Socio-educational Service (Sinase). The article demonstrates that this analysis cannot be restricted to a merely theoretical question, given that it involves invention, production and management of ways of life. That is, that when incorporated to a public policy, this image-concept produces meaning, normative laws, spaces of interaction, practices of conduct, financing policies, agents and actors – that is, it produces ways of life.

Author Biographies

Cleci Maraschin, Ufrgs - Porto Alegre - RS

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1982), Licenciada em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1992), Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1987) e Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1995).

Édio Raniere, Ufrgs - Porto Alegre - RS

Possui graduação em Psicologia pela Universidade Regional de Blumenau (2002) e mestrado em Psicologia (Psicologia Clínica) pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2005). Doutorando em Psicologia Social pela Ufrgs.

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Published

2011-01-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2011): Políticas sociais e questões contemporâneas

Section

Thematic space

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